Russian tourists are catching up at last year's trip

The Russian Union of Tourist Industry, analyzed the data of Rosstat to exit our tourists abroad, said a few interesting trends that characterize this year. Thus, tourism could not only regain lost during the last crisis, the position, but considerably higher than previous results. During the first half of tourist flow from Russia abroad grew by 42.7% to 5.428 million trips - despite the fact that for the same period last year were reported to fall to 22.6%. This dynamic was not practical since the early 2000's. Top position in the ranking of the most popular destinations is Egypt. Countries to consolidate their last year's success when it was first overtaken by Turkey, and in absolute numbers, and the dynamics of a percentage. During the first six months of this year in Egypt rested 1140.6 thousand Russians, that at 65.4% more than during the same period a year earlier. Turkey also has 923.6 thousand of our tourists, showing an increase of 43,7%. In addition, none of the 37 most popular among Russian tourists countries did not show for the last six months a negative trend in tourist flow. That did not happen for at least the past seven years. Even Poland, the demand for which is due to the introduction of visa regime fell in 2004, in the first half of 2010, adopted by 23,6% more than the Russians. Changed and the five leaders on the growth of tourist traffic as a percentage: Thailand (an increase of 118.5%), Lithuania (92,3%), Egypt (65.4%), Latvia (59,8%) and Montenegro (58%). Tour operators working in the Baltic direction, confirm the increasing demand for travel to Lithuania and Latvia, in many ways linking it with the work of airline airBaltic. Its role and simplify procedures for issuing visas to these countries. But in Estonia, despite the flexibility in the visa policy has failed to attract a five-digit number of Russians. Among the countries in the visa at the third place in popularity - China: 563.5 thousand tourists and 44.4% growth in tourist traffic. Among the Schengen countries, Finland is the leader: 310.1 thousand, 8.6%. The last line of a rating of 37 countries is Sweden with 11.2 thousands of tourists, but significant, up to 32% increase in tourist traffic.