It is no secret that Russian tourism statistics are far from perfect and can only be described as confounding. For instance, Rosstat puts the number of ‘pure’ tourists who visited Russia in 2012 at a mere 2.57 million, while according to the St. Petersburg authorities’ measurements, 3 million foreigners came to the city during the same year.
Experts say that the resort’s popularity will increase thanks to the positive effect of the Olympics and pent up demand
The award ceremony was organized by Independent online magazine Travel Russian News, Marketing communications agency PR2POINT and website Superjob.ru, with the help of Channel One Russia.
The trip lasted three days, during which they visited some of St. Petersburg’s more prominent landmarks
The organizers of the exhibition are planning a large-scale presentation of travel companies, spa and resort objects, national crafts and ecotourism capabilities of the region
This makes it one of the top five leading regions of the Central Federal District
How many clients and how much profits do tour operators lose due to the fact that potential customers cannot find the information they need on the site? And how many clients are there who chose an offer but were unable to buy it online? Statistically, three quarters of site visitors experience problems after they have already chosen a tour/ticket/hotel, in other words – at the last stage of buying/booking. Having got lost, they leave the site. So what are the ways to keep the existing clients, prolong their stay on the site and make the web page of a tour operator that much more efficient?..
The official sales of railway tickets to the host city of the Olympics have started today. Those fans who decided to get to Sochi by train should make haste.
Air ticket sales account for $4.7bn of this amount, hotel rooms - $2.4bn, railway tickets - $0.9 and tour packages - $0.3bn.
Russia is second with 531 thousand arrivals, constituting 5.5% of the overall tourist flow.
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