OREANDA-NEWS Russian tourists have flocked abroad en masse, the demand for holidays abroad in the autumn of 2024 increased by 38 percent compared to the same period in 2023. This is the conclusion reached by analysts of the online hotel and apartment booking service Ostrovok, and Izvestia got acquainted with their research.

According to experts, the popularity of Asian and neighboring countries has increased especially. Thus, the number of hotel and apartment bookings by Russian tourists in Abkhazia has tripled.

Experts of the service recorded a twofold growth among such destinations as Indonesia, Georgia, Vietnam and Japan. In Kazakhstan, the increase was 97 percent.

Moreover, the popularity of South Korea (plus 80 percent), Montenegro (plus 73 percent), Uzbekistan (plus 70 percent), China (plus 62 percent) and Hungary (plus 60 percent) has increased among compatriots.

Meanwhile, Belarus, Turkey, Abkhazia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Japan and the UAE are the leaders in the absolute number of bookings.

Earlier it became known that China's share in the inbound tourist flow amounted to 82.4 percent in the first nine months of 2024. The fact that the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire have flocked to Russia en masse was announced by the Russian Union of Tourism Industry (PCT).