Profitable accommodation: in which cities hotels will sharply fall in price after the May holidays

Immediately after the May holidays, prices for accommodation in hotels, apartments and apartments will begin to decrease significantly. In cities such as Suzdal, Yaroslavl, Krasnodar, and Murmansk, the drop may amount to a third or even more, aggregator services told Izvestia. Prices will remain virtually unchanged only in particularly popular tourist destinations such as Sochi, Zelenogradsk, Arkhyz, and St. Petersburg. In some cities, hotels did not raise prices even on holidays. This is due to demand falling by 11-15%, which analysts attribute to short vacations, cold weather and fierce competition with cheaper foreign destinations.

Where will hotel prices drop after the May holidays

The average reduction in the cost of accommodation in hotels, apartments and apartments after the end of the May holidays will be 6%, follows from the data of the service. Bronevik.com . But in a number of areas, this indicator will be more significant. Thus, the average cost of a night in Suzdal will fall by 38% to 7 thousand rubles.

Prices for accommodation in Rybinsk and Murmansk will fall by 35%, to 4.8 thousand and 6.3 thousand, respectively. By 34% — in Yaroslavl (6.7 thousand), by 33% — in Krasnodar (5.6 thousand), by 31% — in Vladimir (6.3 thousand). The cost of living in Kolomna, Vyborg, Pyatigorsk and Kazan will decrease by a quarter.

This year's May holidays turned out to be sobering for Russian hoteliers, said the commercial director of the author's tours marketplace. YouTravel.me Valery Britaus.

— The total volume of bookings for the period from the end of April to the middle of May decreased by about 11-15% year on year. Absolutely all key areas showed a drawdown. The Krasnodar Territory lost almost 21% of demand, the Nizhny Novgorod and Yaroslavl regions lost about 20%, and even the traditionally strong Moscow and St. Petersburg sank by 5.6 and 8.8%, respectively," he said.

Among the reasons, he cited the shortest vacations in eight years, as well as cold weather and fierce competition with cheaper foreign destinations, where tourists have massively shifted.

According to him, there were practically no traditional holiday windups this May.

— For example, in Moscow, the average tariff fell to 8.4 thousand rubles per night — minus 6%, and this is a precedent, because the previous four years the capital's hotels only became more expensive, — said Valery Britaus.

According to him, usually the "festive canopy" over the usual tariffs is 15-20%.

— But in the current situation, hoteliers could not afford this and even had to adjust prices downwards. Some four-star business hotels in Moscow offered discounts of up to 13-15% of the standard cost at the peak of the outflow of guests, the expert said.

He believes that after the May holidays, the most noticeable decrease in prices may be in the cities of the Golden Ring.

— After the holidays are over, the discount becomes even deeper: according to our aggregated data, in the second half of May, local hoteliers are forced to reduce rates by 35-40% from the peak in order to fill rooms on weekdays. A tourist who comes to Suzdal now will pay almost half as much for the same house as a guest at the beginning of May," the expert noted.

Where prices won't change

Moscow and St. Petersburg will settle more modestly after the holidays, as large cities are fueled not only by the tourist flow, but also by business activity and events, Valery Britaus believes.

— Sales of tours to the southern destinations — Sochi, Anapa, Gelendzhik — dropped by about 10-15% in May, and in order to keep the load, hoteliers are already dropping tariffs by 20-25%. This will become especially noticeable in the second half of the month, before the high summer season begins," he said.

But in Bronevik.com It was noted that in Sochi, prices for accommodation in hotels and other accommodation facilities will change minimally after the May holidays — by 1-3%, due to continued high demand. The same applies to a number of other popular resorts, such as Zelenogradsk and Arkhyz.

"A similar situation is observed in St. Petersburg, where prices will decrease by only 5%. And in Kaliningrad, Gelendzhik, Kislovodsk, Anapa and Sirius, prices for tourist accommodation will increase by 10-20% as the summer season approaches," the company said.

The Russian Union of Travel Industry, at the request of Izvestia, presented the position of the aggregator T-Travel. They stated that they did not observe a decrease in the cost of booking hotels in Suzdal, Rybinsk and Yaroslavl in the period after the May holidays. During the year, the company noted, in these areas, the average check per night in May increased significantly — by 16% in Suzdal, by 12% in Yaroslavl and by 21% in Rybinsk.

How prices for trips abroad change

In some countries, holidays after the May holidays are noticeably cheaper than a holiday tour, analysts at the tour and hotel booking service told Izvestia. Level.Travel .

For example, the average check for a trip to Egypt for two for seven nights after the holidays is 12% lower than for the May holidays, the rest will cost 158 thousand rubles.

Also, after the holidays, it is more profitable to go to Thailand, where the average check decreases by 9% (181 thousand rubles versus 199 thousand). The same situation is with the Maldives — the check is 21% lower (384 thousand instead of 489 thousand), as well as China — a drop of 3%, to 188 thousand rubles.

But prices for trips to Turkey will increase by 8% to 169 thousand rubles. The average check for tours to Vietnam also increased slightly — by 3%, to 229 thousand, but mainly due to a shift in demand from 4* hotels to 5* hotels.

"It is important to note that the cost of the tour strongly depends on the day of departure (on weekends, as a rule, it is higher), as well as on the flight conditions that the user chooses in the package of services," they said Level.Travel .

As a rule, there are cheaper deals, but they may not include luggage or involve departure at an inconvenient time.