In the first quarter of 2023, almost 3,3 million foreigners visited Russia with all purposes, of which about 68 thousand for the purpose of tourism. This is follows from the statistics of Border Service of Russia.

Despite the difficulties in obtaining Schengen visas, Russian tour operators began to offer tours to the EU countries. However, the volume of demand for European holidays is only 15-20% of the level that was in the pre-pandemic 2019.

The market of group outbound tourism in 2023 will grow up to 20% compared to 2022. The planned growth is largely due to the low base effect (decrease of demand in the winter and spring of 2022), and the market is up now.

Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Russia, Egypt, and Thailand are among the top five in terms of early bookings. Sales volume has grown significantly compared to last year.

Citizens of the Russian Federation made 23,2 million foreign trips with all purposes in 2022, of which almost 7 million were tourist trips. The total number of trips abroad in 2022 increased by 2 million compared to the previous year. Turkey became the leader among all destinations.

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At least 23,5 million Russians went abroad with all the purposes of their visits this year (10% more than in 2021). Over 9,4 million trips of Russians will be recorded to 17 key foreign tourist destinations, including Abkhazia.

Most often, Russians choose Turkey, Egypt and Thailand as destinations for holidays without visa.

The cost of foreign tourism services in the Russian Federation in 2022 jumped up to 1,7 times with a general inflation for the year at the level of 11,94%.

The inbound tourist flow to Russia amounted to 147,4 thousand trips of foreign citizens with a purpose of tourism. This is 99,5% less than in the same period in 2019 and even 16% less than in covid 2021.

The share of foreign destinations in the outgoing 2022 in the purchase of air tickets was 14%. The destinations of the near abroad, as well as Turkey, are in the lead.

Tour operators record a significant decrease of the demand for tours to Europe for the winter season 2022-2023. There are three main reasons: difficulties to obtain visas, blocking of Russian bank cards abroad, as well as the lack of direct flights.

According to the results of the three quarters of 2022, the inbound tourist flow to Russia amounted to 147,4 thousand trips of foreign citizens with the purpose of tourism. The sharp decline is due to the geopolitical situation.

118 thousand tourists from Russia visited Israel this year. The tourist flow decreased by 58% compared to the same period of the record-breaking 2019.

Over the first three quarters of 2022, Russians made about 7,5 million visits to the 15 most popular tourist destinations (including a number of countries of the former USSR) with the purpose of tourism and recreation, which is 43% more than in the same period in 2021 (5,24 million).

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Nowadays, Russian tourists can fly by direct flight to a number of popular tourist countries.

Russian tourists have already felt the impact of international travel complications to a greater extent than most other Europeans. The tourist flow from Russia to European continent this year has declined sharply.

“Tourism will develop!” - Julia Kuzenskaya, Deputy chair, Committee for Tourism Development of St.Petersburg spoke during the press-conference devoted to development of medical tourism of Petersburg International Health Forum, which took place at Expoforum 26 of October 2022.

Compared with the end of September, the cost of air tickets for flights from Russia to abroad has decreased by 4-10 times, depending on the destination.

Sales of tours abroad by tour operators decreased by 15-30%. About 30% of booked tours of travel companies were canceled.

For the January holidays, travelers most often order flights abroad: the share of foreign destinations increased by 8,6 times compared to the same period last year and amounted to 77,3%.

Since the opening of direct regular flights, more than 2 000 Russians have visited the country.

Conviasa airline plans to launch from October 1 a weekly flight to Porlamar, on Margarita Island. Blocks of seats on this flight will be taken by tour operators Intourist and Tez Tour.

About 3,5 million Russians went on vacation abroad during the summer season, which is 50% less than before the pandemic in 2019.