Russians choose anti-recessionary rest
Wages reduction and uncertainty of the near future forces people to plan their rest more economically. Summer of 2009 most Russians-holiday-makers will spend at home if tour operators and hotel owners will not offer their "anti-recessionary" programs.

Wages reduction and uncertainty of the near future forces people to plan their rest more economically. Summer of 2009 most Russians-holiday-makers will spend at home if tour operators and hotel owners will not offer their "anti-recessionary" programs.
Experts have counted up, interest fall of Russians in traveling will decrease on third this year. Traditionally popular resorts of Egypt and Turkey will not see many of their constant holiday-makers. Rosturizm officials expect that there will be a redistribution of tourist streams towards increase in internal tourism in summer months. Russian southern resorts already wait for flow of visitors. For inquiry, according to Rosturizm data, internal tourism in Russia has made more than 30 million persons in 2008, exit tourism - about 13 million.
"The tourist branch, unfortunately, has most painfully apprehended influence of crisis and sees at the moment decline. However now it is necessary to seize the moment and make attempts to attach Russians to local resorts", - Rosturizm deputy head Alexander Radkov marks.
In connection with this the department together with the Russian tour operators intend to hold active advertising campaigns in main tourist directions, and also offer new tourist products.
According to analyst of Group of companies Region Sergey Burov, it is not necessary to believe fondly that Russian hoteliers will rush, as their foreign colleagues, to cut prices for attraction of clients. "Crisis for them an occasion to rise prices on represented services of which good value for money often leaves much to be desired. Many hotel owners first of all care for prompt recoupment of objects. In case rest in Russia will seem to our compatriots too wasteful, they can again replace it on foreign one".
By the way, this year the quantity of tour operators can essentially decrease. The State Duma has approved the new sums on financial warranties (insured sum on a bankruptcy case). For tour operators working in sphere of exit tourism the size will amount from 30 - to 100 million rbl. For tour operators working with internal tourism, the bottom threshold is approved in 500 thousand rbl.; entrance - in 10 million rbl. After such changes quarter of tourism market players can leave it.
Artem Krasnov