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According to Rosstat, in 2016 the number of tourist trips of Russians abroad amounted to 31.7 million. This is almost 8% less than in 2015. And according to the Border Guard Service, in 2016 the number of trips from Russia specifically for the purpose of tourism decreased significantly more, as shown by the data of Rosstat.
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Compared to 2015, departures fell by 18.5% and amounted to 9 million 873 thousand trips. This is 2 million 234.1 thousand less than in 2015.
Under the article there is a comparative table on the number of tourist trips abroad in 2014-2016.
Recall that since 2014, Rosstat has been publishing statistics in accordance with the recommendations of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), which considers tourists not only those who declare tourism as the purpose of the trip, but also those who travel by private invitation, on business, for treatment, to a neighboring country for groceries or other goods, etc.
And according to Rosstat statistics, the top ten holiday destinations for Russians are as follows: Abkhazia, Finland, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, China, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Thailand, Cyprus. Which, according to the tourist industry, is only partly true.
A slightly different picture is drawn by the data of the Border Guard Service, which divides the outbound flow according to the purpose of travel. There are also trips for the purpose of tourism, and we have been analyzing this indicator for many years, comparing the dynamics with previous years.
The figures received from the Border Guard Service of the Russian Federation helped to understand that in the notorious 31.7 million tourist trips abroad, according to Rosstat, more than 21 million are so-called private trips. And if departure for the purpose of tourism decreased by 18.5%, then private ones - by only 2.4%. Apparently, this is the reason for the relatively small decrease in the number of "tour trips" according to Rosstat.
In general, private trips make up the largest share in the total outbound flow from Russia. In 2016 - 38%. In second place are trips for the purpose of tourism - 29%. Next, service personnel, vehicle crews - 6%. Then business, then the military, then permanent residence.
Tourist departure from Russia has been declining since 2014. The most difficult was 2015, when the tourist flow collapsed by 31%, this was the largest drop since 1998. 2016 turned out to be a better year, although it was also not an easy one.
Almost until the end of July last year, Turkey was closed, from November 2015 Egypt is still closed. Other destinations have taken pieces of the Turkish and Egyptian pie, and in this situation, for the first time in many years, the top ten most popular destinations among Russians have changed significantly. Now the top 10 looks like this: Thailand, China, Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Tunisia, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Turkey.
Thailand came out on top for the first time. This direction has been in the top 10 since 2007, and in recent years it has been in 5-6 place, and in 2016 it immediately jumped from sixth to first.
And Tunisia and Bulgaria, in general, "for the first time in their lives" entered the top ten in the Russian market.
Turkey, which since 2002 has consistently occupied the first line of the ranking, thanks to the return at the end of July in the top ten, nevertheless, it fell to 10th place.
Tunisia showed the largest growth in the top ten, and in the entire list at the end of the year, it grew by 1327%. This is compared to 2015, when due to terrorist attacks practically lost the incoming tourist flow, about 41 thousand tourists from Russia visited it. But even compared to the prosperous 2014, Tunisia added 140%.
In second place in the top ten in terms of growth dynamics is China (60%), which has been steadily declining since 2011, and suddenly rose during the closed Turkey - most likely due to charters from various Russian cities to the beach island of Hainan.
In third place is Cyprus (55.5%), which has also been falling since 2014. Thailand and Bulgaria grew by 38% and 37% respectively. Greece grew by 23.5%.
On the whole, according to the list, many European part of the Russian tourist flow lost: Germany, France, Switzerland. Austria, Netherlands, UK, Belgium.
Mainly beach destinations have grown - UAE, Vietnam, Montenegro, Israel, India, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Cuba, Morocco.
It seems that the closure of Egypt and Turkey was a kind of triumph for these directions. They compare everything and everyone with them, and everyone understands that in a difficult economic situation, only in the absence of these two countries, other beach destinations could grow up. This also applies to domestic tourism.
The total departure of Russians abroad in 2016 amounted to 33.8 million trips - 8% less than in 2015.
Traveling abroad for the purpose of tourism in 2016
according to the Border Guard
(thousand trips)
Preliminary results of outbound tourism for 9 months of 2017.
countries visited by Russian tourists in 2017, according to the statistics of outbound trips from Russia for 9 months from January 1 to September 30, 2017.
outbound tourism in 2017 shows that outbound trips from Russia abroad have grown by almost a third. In 2017, outbound tourism grew by 20%-30% to the most popular destinations in Europe and Southeast Asia.
The number of outbound tourist trips from Russia for 9 months of 2017 increased by 27% to 30.972 million from 24.314 million for 9 months of 2016 according to the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat), which is almost equal to the number of outbound tourist trips from Russia abroad in 2016 at 31.7 million
The top 10 foreign countries popular with Russian tourists in 2017 in terms of the number of outbound tourist trips from Russia following the results of 9 months were Turkey (3.944 thousand trips), Abkhazia (3.493 thousand), Finland (2.481 thousand), Kazakhstan (2.326 thousand .), Ukraine (1.706 thousand), China (1.478 thousand), Estonia (1.285 thousand), Poland (929 thousand), Germany (918 thousand) and Georgia (802 thousand).
According to TurStat, in 2017 Turkey is the leader in foreign trips of Russian tourists. For 9 months of 2017, the number of trips of Russians to Turkey amounted to more than 3.9 million, which is 8 times more than in 9 months of 2016.
Turkey (3.944M trips, +717% compared to 9M 2016), China (1.478M, +25%) and Georgia (802K, +35%) showed the highest growth in outbound tours in 2017 in the first ten countries popular with Russian tourists.
Beach destinations in Southeast Asia: Thailand (706K, +26%) and Vietnam (360K, +27%), Caribbean: Dominican Republic (Dominican Republic) (165K, +117%) and Cuba (53K ., +130%) and the Middle East: the UAE (454 thousand, +41%) and Israel (256 thousand, +20%) showed the highest growth in outbound tourism from Russia in 9 months of 2017.
Outbound tourism from Russia in 2017 increased to the most popular European excursion, resort and beach destinations: Spain (794 thousand, + 19%), Italy (713 thousand, + 28%), France (368 thousand, + 22% ), the Czech Republic (358 thousand, + 42%) and Austria (185 thousand + 37%) for the first 9 months of the year.
Outbound tourism in The CIS and the former USSR in 2017 grew in Azerbaijan (567 thousand, + 16%), Armenia (279 thousand, + 32%) and Moldova (205 thousand, + 28%) following the results of 9 months of the year, as well as in Georgia (802 thousand, + 35%).
Outbound tourism from Russia to the Baltic States (Baltic states) in 2017 increased to Estonia (1.285 thousand, +15%) and Latvia (301 thousand, +12%), but decreased to Lithuania (501 thousand, -8%) at the end of 9 months of the year.
outbound tourism in 2017 is presented below.
: The most popular foreign countries among Russian tourists in 2017 (according to the number of outbound tourist trips for 9 months of 2017):
- Turkey, 3,944k (+717% from 483k) *
- Abkhazia, 3,493 thousand (+1%)
- Finland, 2,481 thousand (+17%)
- Kazakhstan, 2,326 thousand (+3.5%)
- Ukraine, 1,706 thousand (+24%)
- China, 1,478 thousand (+25%)
- Estonia, 1.285 thousand (+14.5%)
- Poland, 929 thousand (+11%)
- Germany, 918 thousand (+19%)
- Georgia, 802 thousand (+35%)
- Spain, 794 thousand (+19%)
- Greece, 792 thousand (+10%)
- Cyprus, 738 thousand (+7%)
- Italy, 713 thousand (+28%)
- Thailand, 706 thousand (+26%)
- Azerbaijan, 567 thousand (+16%)
- Lithuania, 501 thousand (-8%)
- Bulgaria, 463 thousand (-11%)
- Tunisia, 458 thousand (-18%)
- UAE, 454 thousand (+41%)
- France, 368 thousand (+22%)
- Vietnam, 360 thousand (+37%)
- Czech Republic, 358 thousand (+42%)
- South Ossetia, 332 thousand (0%)
- Latvia, 301 thousand (+12%)
- Montenegro, 288 thousand (+8%)
- Armenia, 279 thousand (+32%)
- Israel, 256 thousand (+20%)
- Republic of Moldova, 205 thousand (+28%)
- Kyrgyzstan, 199 thousand (+15%)
- Great Britain, 196 thousand (+23%)
- Austria, 185k (+37%)
- USA, 182K (+9%)
- Switzerland, 182k (+5%)
- Republic of Korea, 169 thousand (+19%)
- Netherlands, 166 thousand (+30%)
- Dominican Republic, 165K (+117%)
- India, 127 thousand (+49%)
- Uzbekistan, 93 thousand (+22%)
- Tajikistan, 91 thousand (+6%)
- Norway, 86 thousand (+13%)
- Hungary, 79 thousand (+13%)
- Mongolia, 68 thousand (+26%)
- Belgium, 65k (+23%)
- Qatar, 57k (+24%)
- Cuba, 53k (+130%)
- Serbia, 58 thousand (0%)
- Croatia, 54 thousand (+4%)
- Japan, 49 thousand (+44%)
- Sweden, 43 thousand (+39%)
- Jordan, 36 thousand (+33%)
- Portugal, 32 thousand (+60%)
- Denmark, 25 thousand (-11%)
- Slovakia, 22 thousand (+6%)
- Maldives, 21 thousand (+24%)
- Singapore, 20 thousand (+5%)
- Morocco, 18 thousand (-36%)
- Slovenia, 15 thousand (+25%)
- Hong Kong, 13 thousand (-19%)
- Romania, 9 thousand
Other countries, 99 thousand
* The brackets indicate the change in the number of outbound tourist trips for 9 months of 2017 compared to 9 months of 2016.
On the portal of the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS) of Russian citizens outside the country in 2017. The data in the system were provided by the FSB of the Russian Federation.
According to the FSB of the Russian Federation (its structure includes the Border Guard Service, which controls border crossings), . This is 24.13% more than in 2016, when our compatriots left Russia 33,827,420 times.
Of the total number of trips of Russians abroad, 31.87% fell on the "near abroad" - the CIS countries, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The leader here is Abkhazia with 4.358 million trips (+1.95% compared to 2016), but it is obvious that this figure includes the repeated movements of Abkhaz citizens with Russian passports, and it is extremely difficult to isolate the real tourist flow from it.
As for non-CIS destinations, it makes sense here again to focus on the total number of trips, and not on the number of trips for the purpose of the visit "tourism" - the methodology for identifying such a purpose of a visit to mass visa-free destinations is so incomprehensible.
TOP-20 EXIT DESTINATIONS "FAR" FOREIGN ABROAD IN 2017 At
In 2017, Russians made 28,604,030 trips to all non-CIS countries, which is 31.6% more than in 2016. The leaders of the TOP-20 (by the number of trips made in 2017 from Russia) were distributed as in Fig. one.
Rice. 1. TOP-20 outbound destinations by the number of trips of Russian citizens in 2017 (excluding the CIS countries, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia)
Almost all countries from the TOP-20 showed an increase in the number of trips from Russia in 2018. Turkey became the leader in terms of growth in the number of trips - +553.2%. Its results are mainly due to the 2016 closed season.
After it, the best dynamics from the TOP-20 was shown by the United Arab Emirates: +53.7% compared to 2016. In third place is Vietnam with a 30.1% growth year-on-year, followed by the Czech Republic with a growth of 27.4% and Thailand with Italy (an increase of 25.6% and 25.5% respectively).
Almost all countries from the rest of the list showed double-digit growth in tourist traffic, with the exception of Cyprus (+6.25%) and Greece (+8.90%).
Three countries from the TOP-20 exit markets, according to the border service of the FSB of Russia, showed a negative trend in the number of trips in 2017 compared to the previous year: Lithuania (-6.85%), Bulgaria (-10.3%) and Tunisia (-16.9%).
Of the countries outside the TOP-20, the dynamics of several countries is interesting. The Dominican Republic has the best results (it also has the second place in the dynamics of arrivals in the general list of mass destinations, right after Turkey) - here, according to the FSB, the number of Russian tourists increased by 73.13% (to a figure of 239,862 in 2017 .).
In Cuba, the number of arrivals from Russia in 2017 increased by 60.1% (82,919), in Jordan - by 56%, in Austria - by 34.9% (264,082 trips), in France - by 22% (up to 524 thousand), in South Korea - increased by 16% (279,133 trips), in India - by 29.1% (233,489 trips), in Malta - by 31% (14,240 trips).
Interestingly, despite all the visa difficulties, the outbound flow to the United States also increased (by 6.3%) (269,128 trips). The outbound flow to Saudi Arabia also increased sharply, by 129%, reaching a figure of 7,745 people.
The completely unique “explosion” of the outbound flow from Russia to Tanzania is also curious: from 56 people in 2016 to 2345 in 2017 (an increase of 4187%). He explains simply - this year he opened direct charter flights to Tanzania (to Zanzibar).
In 2017, the tourist flow to Qatar also "grew" sharply - by 33%, to 87.5 thousand trips. This is explained in the same way as the very small, irrelevant figures of the tourist flow * (see explanation at the end of the article) in some long-haul destinations, such as the Seychelles, Malaysia or Sri Lanka. Since the border service keeps records on boarding passes, the statistics of Qatar (as well as partially, Singapore and, to a lesser extent, Korea) reflect an increase in flights to Southeast Asian countries with connections at these points.
Of the TOP-30 countries in the red in terms of the dynamics of the tourist flow, except for Lithuania, Tunisia and Bulgaria, there were also Morocco (-39%, and this is the most serious decrease in the tourist flow from the entire list of countries with relevant statistics), Singapore (-10%), Denmark ( -7.3%) and Slovakia (-4%). All other foreign destinations from the TOP-30, judging by the statistics of the border service of the FSB of Russia, showed an increase in the number of Russian arrivals in 2017.
MAIN CLASSIC OUTGOING TOURISM COUNTRIES IN 2017
You can make one more cut - in the areas of classical tourism "for the purpose of recreation and excursions" (leisure). To do this, it will be necessary to exclude from the statistics foreign countries with a predominant share of cross-border movements for the purpose of shopping or other non-tourist purposes (China, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia).
The TOP-20 of such countries in 2017 is shown below in Figure 2.
Fig.2. TOP-20 outbound destinations in 2017 ("classic tourism" for the purpose of recreation and cultural and educational purposes)
The number of trips (accurate to units) is only for 2017 (purple row).
EXPLANATION TO STATISTICS
* Recall that in 2014, Rosstat (EMISS coordinator) by order 510 introduced a new method for calculating the volume of tourist traffic, one of the features of which is that when crossing the border repeatedly, a citizen of Russia or any other country will be counted as many times as he did. “Therefore, tourist flows are measured not by the number of tourists, but by the number of trips,” the Rosstat document emphasized.
The statistics of the border service is relevant for counting the number of trips of Russians on mass outbound destinations of the "far" abroad for the purpose of recreation. The number of repeated trips per year by Russian citizens to here is not so large as to significantly distort the data on a number of foreign destinations in the far abroad in one direction or another. Nevertheless, in several areas, the discrepancy with foreign data on the number of Russian tourists in 2017 is significant, which is explained by different methods of accounting for trips).
It is also obvious that the data of the FSB border service, unfortunately, will not be relevant when counting the number of tourists traveling to border countries such as Finland, the Baltic states or Poland, partly China, as well as to the CIS countries, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Obviously, here the proportion of multiple border crossings is much higher, since most of these crossings are done for the purpose of personal shopping or (as in the case of Ukraine and a number of other CIS countries) visiting relatives.
Also, such statistics are not suitable for accounting for trips of people traveling with transfers on many long-haul routes, incl. visa-free destinations (because here the main way to get into the country is air transport, and border guards analyze only boarding passes, which indicate not the final, but the intermediate destination). That is why, for example, the number of visits to the Seychelles, Mauritius, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, etc. is so small in the statistics of the FSB of the Russian Federation, and so large - in such non-tourist states for Russia as Qatar, whose capital is a major transit air hub.
COMPLETE STATISTICS of the departure of citizens of the Russian Federation abroad from the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation for 2016-17. you can see .
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For as long as I can remember, after returning from another trip, my friends always interrogate me - how much do you get, where do you work, do you have any other vacancies? The guys say that at best they manage to escape somewhere once a year for 2-3 weeks, and they don’t understand how I can travel so often. Where to get time and money?
I have been traveling since 2005. At first he traveled around Russia, the CIS countries and the Crimea. After a couple of years, the number of trips per year was at least 5-7 and was constantly increasing. I traveled around cities and countries, sometimes with some friends, sometimes with others, I even traveled alone several times.
My friends always joked that I must be the CEO of Gazprom if I can afford to travel so often. For example, they saw that in the winter I went to St. Petersburg, in the spring to Egypt, Kiev and Rostov, in the summer I already visited Sevastopol 2 times. Then we met Katya, I told her my “secrets” and we began to travel even more actively. The next summer we visited Mexico, in the fall the Emirates and Cyprus, celebrated the New Year in Egypt, in the spring we went to India and Vietnam ...
We looked at 6 countries in 1 year, not counting trips around Russia. At the same time, we both worked in the office and received 30 thousand rubles each.
Where does the money come from? How much do you earn?? Is it possible to get a job in your company for the same position? I've been hearing questions like this for years now. And when Katya and I left for, my friends immediately realized that I was the owner of an oil well
Isn't traveling expensive?
Believe it or not, most people still think that traveling is very expensive. Only wealthy people can afford to go abroad or to Crimea several times a year. They simply do not believe you when you say that you work at the most ordinary job, and not in the State Duma, and they pay you an average salary there, no more than others. Also, no one believes that a ticket to Egypt can be bought for $ 500, they do not believe that we spend less in a month in Thailand or Sri Lanka than an ordinary tourist spends in a week. Where do such prejudices come from?
Egypt, Luxor
For example, remember which travel agency you asked about a trip to Egypt when you were charged $700 for a 3-star hotel without meals? Probably, you went to the shopping center and asked at the office of some well-known large travel agency. I don't know why these firms so brazenly increase prices by 3 times, but a ticket to such a hotel costs a maximum of 200 bucks.
A friend of mine told me how she had a wonderful vacation in Turkey in a five-star all-inclusive hotel and paid $ 1200 per person for everything ... I always want to ask these people, well, where do you find such high prices ?? Do you specifically go to travel agencies and buy a tour where it is most expensive? I do not understand how it was possible to lay out a piece of bucks for Turkey. A ticket to any 5-star hotel in Turkey costs a maximum of $500-700.
When we set our sights on Mexico, I went into one of the offices of a well-known travel agency. I remember that I was then charged $4,500 per person. At the same time, they said that this is still a low price, since there is an early booking for half a year in advance. They also added that Mexico is a wonderful country and you definitely need to save money for it. I could hardly contain my laughter. The next day we bought tours from another travel agency for $1,300 per person, and a week later we were already in Cancun.
Mexico, Cancun
Why did I write these examples? In all cases, it can be seen that people do not know the real cost of vouchers and have no idea where to buy them. We will talk about this a little later, but now let's talk about the most important thing, about money.
Where can I order a transfer from the airport?
We use the service - Kiwi Taxi
Ordered a taxi online, paid by card. We were greeted at the airport with a sign with our name on it. We were taken to the hotel in a comfortable car. You have already talked about your experience in this article
Where to get money for travel
"Wow! You were in Mexico! Lucky ones! I will never save up for this country!” - said one of my friends and took out his latest iPhone to show pictures of the new car ...
Try to stop mindless consumption first.
Now we all live in an era of consumption of material goods. It is worth turning on the radio or TV, as soon as a flurry of advertising falls on you.
Gadgets
Buy a new seven-core tablet! Unprecedented discounts on smartphones until the end of summer! Buy an iPhone now with a discount of 199 rubles! New laptop for the new school year! Widescreen curved TV for only 99 thousand rubles! Hurry! Hurry up! Buy all this high-tech junk!…
Consider every new gadget is a minus one trip. You think, well, okay, now I’ll buy myself a new smartphone and I’ll definitely rest on my next vacation. And next time there will be something new. The new lenovo yoga tablet is half an inch wider than yours and only 19.990! You have to take it, the journey will have to wait...
Think about why you really need a new smartphone? You bought yours half a year ago. Anyway, you will not use anything except the function of the phone, sms, music, selfie camera and a couple of applications, such as VKontakte and Instagram ...
Coffee houses and sushi bars
Now all sorts of sushi bars, coffee houses, restaurants are in fashion - how often do you visit such establishments? 5 times a month, right? Each visit costs at least 1000 rubles. Do not go to such cafes for only a month and you will already free up 5 thousand rubles. Multiply by the number of warm months in a year. It turns out that if at least in the spring and summer to meet friends in nature, and not in bars, then you can save the cost of the whole trip!
When you travel, you go to restaurants every day just to eat.
I personally do not experience any aesthetic pleasure from going to restaurants. I go to these establishments only for their intended purpose - when I'm hungry and need to eat. Also in the cold season we meet with friends in bars. Another point that makes me feel uncomfortable in a cafe is the realization that their kitchen is a mess, unsanitary and expired products. By the way, this year on TV there was one program that confirmed my guesses.
Unnecessary clothes
How many unwanted clothes do you have and where did you buy them? Do not answer, probably in some shopping center. But this is normal, not to buy in the market. The question is rather how much you have already bought extra clothes that you have never worn or only worn a couple of times in all the time. Why were these clothes bought? Most of the things were bought "from nothing to do", because "I want some new things."
“Shopping is the best cure for stress” – this is what they assure us from the TV screen, although this statement is absolutely unfounded, but it is simply very beneficial for some people. Overcome the shopaholism in yourself and even more money will be released for travel!
I don't think I suffer from shopaholism. I have been wearing almost all of my clothes for several years and until there is a desire to replace them. And why, if the thing still retains its properties, has not been torn, has not faded. For example, I have shorts that I bought in Thailand in 2011 for 300 baht. Our regular readers must have noticed that I am in all the pictures in the same shorts.
Furniture, repair and cottage
Repair and dacha are two breakthroughs through which your money has been flowing for years. Tell me, do you often go to the famous Swedish furniture store? Have you ever wondered if you really need these fragrant thick candles or this blanket with an unpronounceable name? Do you really believe that this unpainted rack for 4990 is so necessary for you at the dacha?
Part 2 Coming soon on the blog!
I have given you a few things to think about where you can get money for travel if you are conscious about your expenses and lifestyle. Because, as it usually happens, we earn something from our work, but there is never any money, there is nothing to save. Reread these options again and think about what can be reduced or eliminated. If you're considering taking out a loan for a new TV, don't. Finally stop investing in a car and a summer house.
In the second part of the article, I will talk about practical examples of how to find time to travel if you work in an office as a hired worker 5 days a week, where to buy tickets and not overpay, what you can save on when traveling so that more money is left for excursions and many more useful things.
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That's all for today. Thank you for your attention! I hope I was able to convey my idea to you and helped you learn something new. Although, I didn’t say anything particularly new, all this is already known to many. If there is something to add, something is not clear or you do not agree with some statements, write your questions in the comments.