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Tourism Russia
Weather it's the snowy peaks of the Caucasus
Mountains or the ancient domed majesty of Saint Petersburg,
Russia has a lot to offer. And access to the most beautiful and
remote locations as well as to the bustling cities is readily
available ? all you need to do is book your tickets.
All the countries of
the world (except for the former Soviet republics) provide 30%
of the total number of foreigners coming to Russia. At the same
time, ten countries are leading in terms of arrivals to the
Russian Federation (they consist 80% of the whole market). Among
first of them ranking in decreasing order are Germany, Finland,
USA, Great Britain, Italy, France and Japan. In the recent years
this list has expanded due to the Baltic countries, with which
business and tourist exchange got increased, and the Republic of
Korea, from which the number of tourists arriving to Russia in
2001 exceeded that in 2000 by 37%.
Approximate expenses
regarding their trips to Russia in 2001 amounted to $374 million
(without taking into account their expenses for air travel),
whereas the average stay in the country was 6.5 days.
According to the WTO
estimates, presently, the most prospective market segments are:
Owing to its unique
natural and cultural potential, as well as due to the interest
to it of the foreign tourists as a new tourist sector, Russia
has all the reasons for development of all the
Above-mentioned
types of tourism.
In 2000 the hotels of
Russia served 16.6 million citizens of the country, and the
sanatorium and health resorts facilities provided their services
to 8.5 million people. The main tendencies of the demand in this
market consist in maintaining of the priorities as far as the
traditional types of holiday-making are concerned: beach type in
the South of Russia, cruise type in the Volga Region, sanative
holiday-making and ski mountaineering. At the same time, it is
quite noticeable how little by little the interest in the
cultural and educational tourism is coming back. Among them are
such types of tourism as hunting, fishing, event-driven and
environmental tourism.
The primary
receiving markets for tourists from abroad and for domestic
tourists
Totally, by 2000,
there were 9.1 thousand resort and tourist accommodation
facilities in the Russian Federation, the total number of rooms
being 472.1 thousand. The accommodation capacity was 1100
thousand beds, of which about 40% was falling at the hotel
accommodation facilities. But for all that, the average annual
rate of room occupancy reached 42%. At present the highest room
occupancy rate is characteristic of the hotels in Moscow,
St.-Petersburg, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, and
Kaliningrad Region.
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