The most popular city among Russian travelers planning a trip in November is Moscow: the capital accounts for 22.9% of all hotel bookings. This is shown by the OneTwoTrip study, the results of which were reviewed by socialbites.ca.
It was followed by St. Petersburg with a 17.3% share. Petersburg follows. Sochi is among the top three cities where 11.1% of Russians who have booked a hotel plan to have a holiday. Also on the list are Kazan (3.8%), Kaliningrad (3.0%), Yekaterinburg (2.3%), Nizhny Novgorod (2.0%), Krasnodar (1.8%), Novosibirsk (1.2%). and Vladivostok (1.1%). .
Compared to November 2022, interest in hotels increased most in Krasnodar (+50.0%) and Kaliningrad (+30.4%), and more tourists plan to go to Moscow (+18.7%). However, St. Demand for St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Sochi decreased by 16.0%, 14.3% and 14.0% respectively. The shares of other provinces remained almost unchanged throughout the year.
Istanbul leads among the most popular foreign cities: its share of total bookings abroad is 9.8%. In second place is Dubai (4.3%), and in third place is Bangkok, where 4.0% of travelers will go in late autumn. Also in the top 10 are Minsk (3.4%), Pattaya (2.8%), Yerevan (2.5%), Shanghai (2.4%), Rome (1.9%), Paris (1%). 8) and Baku (1.8%).
Large increases in demand throughout the year were seen in Baku (+63.6% in hotel bookings compared to last November), Rome (+58.3%), Bangkok (+42.9%) and Pattaya (+27.3%). It is also worth noting Shanghai: in 2022, China did not accept tourists, but at the moment the city immediately occupies seventh place in the ranking. Interest in Dubai, on the contrary, decreased by 31.7%, and Russians’ interest in trips to Yerevan (-21.9%) and Istanbul (-21.6%) also decreased. The shares of the remaining ten provinces remained almost unchanged.
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