Russia cedes leadship in early booking

According to the portal Tutu.ru the demand for early reservations in 2018 year almost doubled. Turkey is the leading country – it accounts for a quarter of all tours already purchased for the summer. The average price of such tours is about 51.000 rubles per person. It is noteworthy that the last year Turkey accounted for less than 9% of the reservations in spite of the fact that the price was almost twice lower – 28.500 rubles.

Demand for Russia has fallen significantly. The last year it was in the first place for early booking (every fourth order), and in this year its share fell to 14,3% (4th place). It is interesting that the decrease in the share of Russia occured despite 40% decrease in the average price – up to 22.900 rubles per person.

The second place in terms of the volume of early booking for the summer is Greece, the third country is Tunisia. Also in the top 10 are Cyprus, Mexico, Thailand, Morocco, Vietnam and Spain.

This year Abkhazia, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Indonesia flew out of the top. Most of the year the prices for tours to Turkey and Cyprus have increased (have added 44%), Spain (plus 30%). The prices for Russia fell in price (minus 40%), as well as trips to Mexico (minus 28.5%) and Vietnam (minus 60%).

Almost 60% of the reservations are for hotels with all inclusive service and in 2016 year this figure was 37%. The most popular category of hotels is 3* (41% of bookings), hotels 5* – 25%, hotels 4* – 19%.

According to airline tickets reservations among the most popular summer destinations by individual travelers are – Tivat, Batumi, Bishkek, Burgas, Tbilisi, Barcelona, Athens, Baku.
Atlantis Travel agency provides discounts up to 20% for early booking in Croatia.

 

Destination

Summer 2017

Summer 2018

Share

summer 2017

Share summer 2018

Price per person summer 2017

Price per person summer 2018

Price difference,

%

Turkey

4

1

8,63%

25,97%

28504

51128

+44,25%

Greece

2

2

23,41%

19,48%

31657

36495

+13,26%

Tunisia

5

3

14,59%

12,99%

31661

31970

+0,97%

Russia

1

4

4,12%

14,29%

32073

22887

-40,14%

Cyprus

10

5

7,56%

10,39%

32528

58251

+44,16%

Mexico

6

2,60%

98145

76379

-28,5%

Thailand

6

7

6,88%

2,60%

32744

35768

+8,45%

Morocco

8

2,60%

48500

50340

+3,66%

Vietnam

9

3,90%

64414

40417

-59,37%

Spain

11

10

2,84%

5,19%

57393

81990

+30%

Source: Rata news

 

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