ATA reported more than 3 million tourists visiting Russia over the New Year holidays

During the New Year holidays, more than 3 million tourists vacationed in Russia. During a press conference in the Izvestia International Center on the topic "New tourist season: Russians' plans for the year 2025" January 22, Natalia Osipova, executive director of the Alliance of Travel Agencies, said.

"Any objects attract Russians. This is very good. Literally in the last two years Siberia has become one of the most popular destinations for domestic tourism," Osipova added.

According to her, about 600 thousand Russians spent New Year vacations abroad. The expert also emphasized the pronounced advantage of domestic tourism, based on the statistics of tourists who visited Russian resorts.

"In the Krasnodar region rested 18 million tourists in 2024, in Anapa - 5 million. Well, here, probably, these figures speak a lot," - highlighted Osipova.

According to the specialist, recently there has been a growing interest in travel to Siberia due to the natural beauty.

"Over the past two years, Siberia has become one of the most popular destinations for domestic tourism," Osipova summarized.

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Earlier, on January 21, it was reported that all surveyed Russians plan to spend the May holidays in travel. In this case, 60% of respondents will be in their region - will go out of town to the countryside, to the dacha, to the campground or camping, follows from the results of research service for the purchase of air and rail tickets "Kupibilet". At the same time, 28% of survey participants are planning a trip to Russian cities by airplane; 8% will go to the mountains. Foreign trips are less popular: only 4% of respondents are going to Europe or Asia.