The successful combination of weekends for the May holidays in 2025 became an additional motivation for tourists. Booking systems have recorded 18%of the increase in air tickets sales, while the need for booking hotels, the apartments are organized tours and after that. At the same time, a significant part of the passengers plans to spend the spring holidays abroad and divert the directions of travel across the country.
This year, tourists began to plan ahead of the May holidays, and the amount of air tickets sold on early February 2025 on April 29 – on May 12, increased 18% of the year, which was calculated on Yandex trips. Onetvotrib indicates an increase of 57% annually by the number of air ticket orders. According to Astrovca, the amount of residential bookings in the country as of May 1–12 increased in 56% foreign directions and 62% in the interior. The sale of organized tours for the May holidays, according to the “Fly.Ru”, doubled. Traveleta.Ru, 68%of the purchase number of tourists, at the level. Travel – Consider the increase in 60%.
In Astrovca, active travel sales are related to the successful weekend distribution of the upcoming May weekend. They last between 1 to 4 and from May 8 to 11, dates last between three working days. By 2024, in total, the Russians formally had the same number of weekends in May, but they interrupted twice in work. The second factor is the increase in the depth of the reservation. Marketing Director Travelleta.Ru Olek Kosrev notes, now the trips are now scheduled for 115 days against 110 – a year ago.
The amount of travel sales is growing behind the restoration of travel abroad. This year, the Yandex trip notes that the share of the amount of attendance in the tickets sold is 10% against 10% before 10%. In the Onetvotrium, this figure increased from 25% to 48%. In the framework of the sales of organized tourists, mainly by foreign tourists, the role of Russia has blurred in a year, and now reaches 6% of the total amount of May.
Head of the number of activities implemented. According to Travelta.Ru, the country is 57%of the reservation for May holidays, 3%(p.) A year ago. The role of Egypt is 5 p. The average cost of tours sold in the year of the year has increased to 22%, 236.8 thousand rubles, 38.3%to 282.7 thousand rubles respectively.
The most popular organized areas for the May holidays, according to Travellatta.ru, the fall of Abkhazia: it was replaced by Thailand. This can be explained by the general lack of tourism requirement for Abkhazia after protests in the country at the end of last year. The Russian Foreign Ministry then recommended to avoid traveling to the Republic.
St. Petersburg is the most popular direction for May travel in Russia. According to Astrovka, there are 19% of the internal hotel bookings. The average cost of the night increased by 27%to 6.5 thousand rubles. The following are Kasan (11%of sales) and Moscow (6%). Olek Kosrev notes that plans to plan in May in Russia is often preferred in alternative directions, not by the Crossnodor territory. The expert does not exclude that this may be due to the pollution of the Black Sea beach. Sergei Romashkin, vice president of Russia’s tour operators association, speaks of the decline in the Anaba Hotel in Anaba for a year. At the same time, according to him, this indicator in Sochi has increased by 20-25%.
The average hotel booking within the country, according to Astrovca, increased by 20%to 6.1 thousand rubles. Throughout the night. A similar trend in the transport sector. So, in Bailet, they notice that a ticket for St. Petersburg now costs 7.4 thousand rubles. One way. One year, the indicator has grown one and a half times a year. The aircraft for mineral water rose by an average of 87.6%, 12.4 thousand rubles.
