Russian tourists have learned to do without the travel agencies

In recent years, Russian tourists are increasingly organize their holidays independently. According to the results of last year's study holding Romir found that 71% of Russians do not use the services of travel agencies. This year the trend continued. In 2010 a similar survey has not yet been conducted, but these tour operators and representatives of online services, show the same thing. Thus, the largest search engine Skyscanner flight marks the growing independence of the Russians in the organization of leisure, said Rata-News. Traffic to the Russian version of the site for the period from February to July increased by 138%. Almost 60% of the requests have to fly to foreign countries. The growth of online booking is not related to seasonal factors: the Russians are actively travel throughout the year. Simultaneously with tickets to a growing demand for hotel reservations. And if people in Turkey, as before, buy tour packages that countries such as Greece, Montenegro, Spain, Italy and many others, are taking more and more independent travelers. For example, according to the Austrian National Tourist in Moscow, while in 2004 90% of package tours to Austria, was bought from operators, as their own - only 10% in the past year, the latest figure was 50%.