According to Elena Shelekhova, head of the press service of the travel planning service OneTwoTrip, according to air bookings for the weekend dedicated to February 23, the most popular destinations were Dubai (the city’s share is 9.9% of all foreign bookings), Bangkok (8.4 %), Denpasar (7%), Phuket (6.3%) and Istanbul (5%).
It is noted that on the weekend of March 8, the greatest demand is for flights to Phuket (accounting for 8.2% of air bookings), Seoul (6.5%), Tokyo (6.3%), Dubai (6%) and Bangkok (5%). .3%).
As analysts added, among the top five destinations within the country for both the February and March weekends were Moscow (the share of air orders was 17.9%), Sochi (15.9%), St. Petersburg (8%), Kaliningrad (7. 4%) and Mineralnye Vody (4.9%).
“Compared to last year’s holidays, the top destinations have not changed. At the same time, in 2024, more Russians began to plan their vacations in advance,” the service added.
In addition, the company provided RT with air booking data for 2019.
“During the weekend of February 23, the most popular Russian cities were Moscow (41.7%), St. Petersburg (9.9%), Rostov-on-Don (7.3%), Yekaterinburg (4.9%) and Krasnodar (4.6%),” experts said.
People most often flew abroad to Minsk (35.2%), Helsinki (6.2%), Riga (4.8%), Prague (4.1%) and Chisinau (2.8%), experts explained.
“On the holiday weekend by March 8, the greatest demand was in Moscow (37.8%), St. Petersburg (11.9%), Sochi (5.6%), Rostov-on-Don (4.8%) and Yekaterinburg ( 4.4%). And from foreign destinations they chose Minsk (6.6%), Istanbul (6.4%), Prague (5.6%), Tbilisi (5%) and Paris (4.8%),” the service concluded.
In turn, Oleg Kozyrev, marketing director of the online tour store Travelata.ru, said that now the most popular beach destinations during the periods of February 23 and March 8 are Thailand, the UAE and Egypt.
“As for Russian destinations, St. Petersburg is especially popular here. Also this year, Krasnaya Polyana, Imeretinsky, Kaliningrad and Adler remain popular,” the RT interlocutor emphasized.
As Anex Tour explained, the depth of bookings this year has become an order of magnitude greater than a year earlier, but the duration has remained at the same level.
In addition, they noted an active demand for trips to the Krasnodar Territory, Leningrad and Kaliningrad regions during the holidays.
Tez Tour told RT that during the holidays, the sales leaders are Thailand and the UAE - first and second places.
As the press service added, if we consider bookings for February 23,
Then the third, fourth and fifth places are occupied by the Maldives, China and Sri Lanka. As for travel on March 8, the third, fourth and fifth places are occupied by China, Turkey and the Maldives.
“Compared to last year, Thailand and the UAE occupy the same leading positions, demand for China is growing - it is already among the top 5 countries in terms of sales,” the company concluded.
Previously, travel service analysts compiled a selection of the most distinctive regions of Russia.