Russians are urged not to dramatize the situation busiest hotels in the Crimea and Sochi and called the hype ended in the resorts places artificial. Real data about the booking of hotels, revealed experts in the tourism industry, reports the Association of tour operators of Russia (ATOR).
So, on assurances of the General Director of the National tour operator ALEAN Ilya Umansky of the Russian resorts in 2020, there is really a boom, but a shortage of numbers seen only in the accommodations category.
“Now loading rates in the medium price segment — from 50 to 80 percent, in the high — 90 percent. To find places, hotels etc as July and August in Sochi and other resorts. The same picture and in the resorts of the Crimea”, — said Umansky.
His words were confirmed by the head of the hotel chain “Atelica” Alex Vysochinov, noting that low-cost hotels load indicators are much lower than at four – and five-star hotels.
“In the Crimea is now available for booking about 30 objects out of 150, i.e. about 80 percent of the hotels available on the first week of August. In the Krasnodar region of 160 objects available in the order of 40, 25 percent” — added to these colleagues, the General Director of company “Dolphin” Sergey Romashkin.
on July 20 in the media appeared information that in the Sochi hotels have run out of space for guests. In the July occupancy of the accommodation facilities of the resort made up 90-100 percent, and the most popular among tourists were the luxury hotels, many of which are already fully occupied.
July 15 it became known that Russian tourists after a partial withdrawal is introduced on the background of the pandemic coronavirus restrictive measures staged a boom in ticket sales in two areas in the country. In July, the high demand for tickets to Sochi and Simferopol — the number of bookings of flights increased 2.1 times and by 16 percent.
