Just as DSBW analysts predicted a month ago, in July 2014 the demand for excursion tours to Europe grew almost 19% as compared to June. At the same time, prices for excursion tours have dropped a little, about 6%. These are the results of Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for July 2014, which was compiled by the DSBW analysts.
It has been over a year since Ruben Beltran received his credentials as Mexico’s ambassador to Russia. In this interview TRN magazine asked the ambassador about the progress that was the embassy has made during the past year in regard to consolidating tourism ties between the two countries, and about what there was still left to do…
Demand for excursion tours to Europe is expected to drop 25.62% in April. Such is the forecast compiled by DSBW’s analysts based on the Excursion Tour Index EXDEX for March of 2014. According to the experts’ findings, the number of search queries for excursion tours to Europe in various online booking systems will amount to 20,172 in April, as opposed to 27,121 in this year’s March.
According to the tourism department of the Spanish embassy, the process of issuing visas to Russian tourists is going on at the usual rate. This March the number of the issued visas grew 12% as compared to the same period last year.
Out of 1 million Russian tourists who visited the region last year, 70% came with families and children. This will now be the primary target demographic for local Catalan travel authorities.
Travel Russian News magazine and Superjob.ru are ready to present the results of another joint research aimed at determining the attitude of Russians to a wide-spread tour operator service – early booking, and also at finding out which countries are often booked in advance.
During the past year a record-high number of tourists visited Spain’s Catalonia, spending record amounts of money for the region. Being one of the main markets for Catalonia, Russia ranked fifth as to the number of arrivals. At the same time, Catalonia is still the most popular Spanish tourist region among Russians.
Tour operator DSBW presents the Index of Guided Tours ‘EXDEX’ for January 2014 and its forecast for February 2014. We’d like to draw your attention to the fact that EXDEX consists of two indicators – Index of demand for guided tours EXDEX-D and price index of guided tours EXDEX-P.
Through the windows of the descending plane we can already see banana plantations, azure creeks washed by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, and the proud snowy summit of Teide volcano – the main symbol of Tenerife Island, where we went on a media tour organized by “Anex Tour” for Moscow journalists at the end of December, 2013. We got a taste of the peculiar insular way of life of Tenerife’s residents and saw the main sights and the best hotels of the island resort.
The Prime Minister of India, along with its Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Tourism, has already approved the initiative; now it is up to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do the same
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