More than 1.6 million Russians have used the tourist cashback program. They spent 34 billion rubles on tours and hotel accommodation. under this program and returned 6.7 billion rubles., said Rosturizm. The window for selling tours with cashback for the fall closes at 1:00 Moscow time on September 10.
“The most popular trips to the Krasnodar Territory, the Stavropol Territory, and the Crimea have become the most popular within the current sales window. The Russians were actively purchasing health tours to Altai, Tyumen and others, ”the Federal Tourism Agency said in a statement. The agency claims that cultural and educational tours to Pskov, Novgorod, Yaroslavl regions, Tatarstan, Kaliningrad, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Samara were popular.
The fourth stage of the tourist cashback program was launched in June – it involved paying for tours from the beginning of October to 24 December. Sales were initially open until August 31, but the window was extended until September 14. Rosturizm does not specify why the stage of the program ended ahead of schedule on September 10.
About problems with the autumn stage of the program – in the column of Alexandra Mertsalova “Tourists are tired of discounts”.
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