Statistics of departure from the country of Russians according to the Federal State Statistics Service and the border service of the Russian Federation. “Let's take a look”: after a steep peak of tourist flow from Russia abroad, all records are breaking Out of Russian tourists abroad statistics
He identified the most popular cities and regions of Russia for domestic tourism at the end of 2016 and the most popular foreign countries of outbound tourism among Russian tourists in 2016.
The number of international and domestic tourists in 2016
More than 22 million tourists visited Russia in 2016, 10% more than in 2015. The number of domestic tourists in 2016 in Russia grew to 55 million. The number of outbound tourist trips from Russia in 2016 amounted to 32 million.
Tourism Results and Statistics of Tourism in Russia in 2016 - Russian Tourism Rating 2016 (Statistics of domestic tourism in Russia, statistics of inbound tourism by foreign tourists to Moscow, St. Petersburg and others, as well as statistics of outbound tourism in 2016).
Krasnodar Territory, Moscow Region and Crimea became leaders of domestic tourism in 2016 among the regions of Russia. 15.8 million tourists visited Kuban in 2016, 12.5 million tourists visited the Moscow region in 2016, and 5.6 million tourists visited Crimea in 2016.
Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sochi became the most popular tourist cities in Russia in 2016. 17.5 million tourists visited Moscow in 2016, 6.9 million tourists visited St. Petersburg, and 6.5 million tourists visited Sochi in 2016.
The Kaliningrad region, Kabardino-Balkaria, the Irkutsk region and the Bryansk region showed the highest growth rates of domestic tourism in 2016. The Kaliningrad region was visited by 1.4 million tourists in 2016, which is 30% more than in 2015. 400 thousand tourists visited Kabardino-Balkaria in 2016, 40% more than a year earlier, and 55 thousand tourists visited the Bryansk region, which is 51% more than in 2015, and more than 1 million tourists visited the Irkutsk region one third more than in 2016.
Abkhazia, Thailand and Georgia became leaders in outbound tourism from Russia in 2016. 1.5 million tourists from Russia visited Abkhazia, and more than 1 million Russian tourists visited Thailand and Georgia in 2016.
Tunisia, Morocco, Cyprus and Cuba showed the highest growth rates of outbound tourism from Russia in 2016. Tunisia was visited by 623 thousand Russian tourists in 2016, which is 137% more than in 2015. Morocco was visited by 60 thousand Russian tourists in 2016, which is 100% more than a year earlier. 782 thousand Russian tourists visited Cyprus, 49% more than in 2015. 65 thousand Russian tourists visited Cuba in 2016, which is 50% more than in 2015.
The most popular tourist cities of Russia in 2016 *:
- Moscow, 17.5 million, including 4.55 million foreign tourists
- St. Petersburg, 6.9 million (+ 6%), including 2.8 million foreign tourists
- Sochi, 6.5 million
- Kazan, 2.5 million (+ 16%)
- Sergiev Posad, 1.7 million
* The percentage of change by 2015 is shown in parentheses.
Statistics by region - The most popular tourist regions of Russia in 2016 (Domestic tourism in Russia in 2016)
- Krasnodar Territory, 15.8 million (+ 5%)
- Moscow region, 12.5 million (+ 9%), including 3.9 million staying at a hotel
- Crimea, 5 million 573 thousand (+ 21%)
- Vladimir region, 4 million (+ 21%)
- Primorsky Krai, 3 million (+ 25%), including 568 thousand foreign tourists
- Yaroslavl region, 3 million (+ 15%)
- Tatarstan, 2.9 million (+ 7%), including 250 thousand foreign tourists)
- Astrakhan region, 2.5 million (+ 10%)
- Chelyabinsk region, 2.2 million (+ 10%)
- Leningrad region, 2 million
- Altai Territory, 2 million (+ 8%)
- Stavropol Territory, 1.4 million (+ 5%)
- Bashkortostan, 1.4 million, (+ 25%)
- Kaliningrad region, 1.4 million (+ 30%)
- Buryatia, 1 million 40 thousand (+ 15%)
- Irkutsk region, more than 1 million (+ 30%)
- Karachay-Cherkessia, 1 million
- Volgograd region, 930 thousand (+ 14%)
- Kostroma region, 922 thousand (+ 4%)
- Karelia, 760 thousand
- Mari El, 610 thousand (+ 9%)
- Khabarovsk Territory, 520 thousand (+ 13%) and 36 thousand foreign tourists (+ 8%)
- Dagestan, more than 480 thousand (+ 20%), including 28 thousand foreign tourists
- Adygea, 420 thousand (+ 16%)
- Kabardino-Balkaria, 420 thousand (+ 40%)
- Murmansk region, 320 thousand
- Saratov region, 315 thousand
- Smolensk region, 300 thousand, including 33 thousand foreign tourists
- Chuvashia, 246 thousand
- Komi Republic, 230 thousand (+ 5%)
- Ulyanovsk region, 200 thousand
- Kamchatka Territory, 198 thousand (+ 10%), including 16.5 thousand foreign tourists
- Amur Region, 142 thousand (+ 16%), including 80 thousand tourists from China
- Chechen Republic, more than 80 thousand
- Bryansk region, 55 thousand (+ 51%)
- Ingushetia, 45 thousand
The number of Russian tourists traveling inside the country increased by 15% in 2016 compared to the previous year, while for the first time in Russia there was a redistribution of the flow from independent to organized. This was reported to reporters by the executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze.
“We preliminary note the year-end increase in domestic tourist flow by 15% in total for all segments, organized and independent. If we are talking about a budget option for vacation, until 2016 organized tourism here accounted for no more than 10% in the total flow, now we can talk about 20% sure, "said Ms. Lomidze.
In 2017, ATOR predicts a slowdown in the growth of domestic tourism. “But our forecast may not come true if accommodation facilities are not greedy and leave prices last year. So far, price increases have been declared at 20%, somewhere up to 30%. Price increases by more than 5-7%, within inflation , can extremely negatively affect the load, "- said the executive director of ATOR.
According to her, because the share of organized tourism has grown, market participants will fight for consumers with a declining tourist flow, which will lead to increased competition. “And these are more interesting offers, this is useful for the market,” M. Lomidze said.
At the same time, inbound tourist flow to Russia grew by 6%. This was facilitated by the work of Visit Russia representative offices abroad, as well as the fact that inbound tourism was one of the priority areas of the Russian tourism sector. Of the total number of foreign tourists, 90% of the flow visited Moscow and St. Petersburg, the main age contingent of foreigners is 50-65 years. Foreign guests paid an average of 1.5 - 2 thousand dollars for the tour. Travel expenses averaged $ 1,000 per week.
The main problems that impede the growth of the entry flow to Russia are the difficult foreign policy situation, Russia's image in foreign media, often negative, insufficient promotion of the positive image of the Russian Federation abroad, as well as difficulties in obtaining visas.
At the same time, the number of Russian tourists who went abroad in 2016 was 6% less than a year earlier. “Although all countries speak of an increase in tourist flow, the total number of people traveling abroad is less than in 2015 - about 6% according to the data as of the end of December. I note that the positive dynamics of the growth of tourist flow to Europe was hindered by the introduction of biometric Schengen visas: if it weren’t for that, we would have reached the 2014 indicators, "M. Lomidze said.
Among the areas that showed significant in 2016, ATOR analysts highlight Greece, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam, Italy, Bulgaria, Tunisia, Cyprus, Croatia, and the Dominican Republic.
On the portal of the Unified Interdepartmental Information and Statistical System (EMISS) of Russian citizens outside the country in 2017. Data in the system is provided by the FSB of the Russian Federation.
According to the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (its structure includes the Border Guard Service, which controls border crossing),. This is 24.13% more than in 2016, when our compatriots traveled outside Russia 33,827,420 times.
Of the total number of Russians traveling abroad, 31.87% were in the "near abroad" - the CIS countries, Turkmenistan, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Abkhazia is the leader here with 4.358 million trips (+ 1.95% compared to 2016), but it is obvious that this figure includes repeated movements of Abkhaz citizens with Russian passports, and it is extremely difficult to isolate the real tourist flow from it.
As for the destinations of far abroad countries, it makes sense here to rely on the total number of trips, rather than on the number of trips for the purpose of a “tourism” visit - the methodology for identifying such a purpose of a visit to mass visa-free destinations is not clear.
TOP-20 EXIT DESTINATIONS FOR “FAR” ABROAD IN 2017At
In 2017, 28,604,030 trips were made to all countries of the "far" abroad by Russians, which is 31.6% more than in 2016. The TOP-20 leaders (according to the number of trips made in 2017 from Russia) were distributed as in Fig. one.
Fig. 1. TOP-20 exit destinations by the number of trips of Russian citizens in 2017 (with the exception of the CIS countries, Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia)
Almost all the 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 United Arab Emirates showed the best dynamics from the TOP-20: + 53.7% compared to 2016. Vietnam is in third place with 30.1% growth year-on-year, followed by the Czech Republic with growth of 27.4% and Thailand with Italy (growth of 25.6% and 25.5%, respectively).
Almost all countries from the rest of the list showed double-digit growth in tourist flow, with the exception of Cyprus (+ 6.25%) and Greece (+ 8.90%).
Three countries from the TOP-20 exit markets, according to the FSB border service of Russia, showed negative dynamics in the number of trips in 2017 compared to the previous year: these are 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 immediately after Turkey) - here, according to the FSB, the number of Russian tourists increased by 73.13% (up to 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 - it grew 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 exit flow to the USA increased (by 6.3%) (269,128 trips). The exit flow to Saudi Arabia increased sharply, by 129%, reaching the figure of 7745 people.
An absolutely unique “explosion” of the exit stream from Russia to Tanzania is also curious: from 56 people in 2016 to 2345 in 2017 (an increase of 4187%). He simply explains - this year he opened direct charter flights to Tanzania (to Zanzibar).
The tourist flow to Qatar sharply “increased” in 2017 - by 33%, to 87.5 thousand trips. This is explained by the same thing as very small, irrelevant numbers of tourist flow * (see explanation at the end of the article) for some long-distance directions, such as Seychelles, Malaysia or Sri Lanka. Since the border service keeps records of boarding passes, statistics from Qatar (as well as partially from Singapore and, to a lesser extent, Korea) reflects the growth of flights to Southeast Asian countries with connections at these points.
Morocco (-39%, and this is the most serious decrease in tourist flow from the entire list of countries with relevant statistics), Singapore (-10%), Denmark (among the TOP-30 countries minus the dynamics of tourist flow, except Lithuania, Tunisia and Bulgaria) -7.3%) and Slovakia (-4%). All other foreign destinations from the TOP-30, judging by the statistics of the FSB border service of Russia, showed an increase in the number of Russian arrivals in 2017.
MAJOR COUNTRIES OF CLASSIC OUTDOOR TOURISM IN 2017
You can make another cut - in the directions of classical tourism "for the purpose of relaxation and excursions" (leisure). For this, it will be necessary to exclude from the statistics foreign countries with a predominant share of cross-border movements for shopping or other non-tourist purposes (China, Poland, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia).
TOP-20 of such countries in 2017 is presented below in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2. TOP-20 travel destinations of 2017 ("classic tourism" for leisure and cultural and educational purposes)
The number of trips (accurate to units) is indicated only for 2017 (purple row).
STATISTICS EXPLANATION
* Recall that in 2014, Rosstat (EMISS coordinator), by order of 510, introduced a new methodology for calculating the volume of tourist flow, one of the features of which is that when crossing the border several times, 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 are relevant for calculating the number of trips of Russians to the mass exit destinations of the "far" abroad for the purpose of recreation. The number of repeated trips per year of Russian citizens to here is not so large as to significantly distort data on a number of foreign destinations of non-CIS countries 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 in calculating the number of tourists traveling to such border countries as Finland, the Baltic states or Poland, partially 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 made for personal shopping or (as in the case of Ukraine and several other CIS countries) visits of relatives.
Also, such statistics are not suitable for taking into account the trips of people following transfers on many long-haul routes, including visa-free, directions (since 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 it is so high in such non-tourist states as Russia, Qatar, whose capital is a large transit air hub.
FULL STATISTICS of departure of citizens of the Russian Federation abroad from the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation for 2016-17. can see.
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