The price of summer holidays in Turkey has risen by 30% – Reuters

According to the online booking service Ostrovok.ru, hotels in Turkey are now booked for the summer at an average price of 7,000 rubles for a double room, which is 26% more than a year ago. Air travel also began to cost 27% more expensive (an average of 30,000 rubles in 2022 and 38,000 rubles in 2023), a representative of aggregator Tutu.ru said. As a result, according to the company Sletat.ru, the average check for visits to Turkey for the summer is now 185,000 rubles.
However, according to OneTwoTrip, the average cost of an organized trip (flight and hotel) for this summer has on the contrary fallen by 8% compared to 2022. If in 2022 visits to a three-star hotel for two people cost 119,000 rubles for seven nights, they now cost 110,000 rubles. This discrepancy in the data is due to the fact that the depth of reservations increases and the most expensive hotels are purchased first. Inexpensive three-star hotels are less in demand, their prices may fall.Among the most popular destinations for overseas holidays for the upcoming summer season, representatives of the tourism industry cite Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Thailand. At the same time, the average check for booking hotels in Egypt increased by 18% during the year (from 6.6 thousand rubles to 7.8 thousand rubles), in the United Arab Emirates – by only 1 % (from 15.7 thousand rubles to 15.8 thousand rubles), and in Thailand – by 10% (from 5.1 thousand rubles to 5.6 thousand rubles).The cost of accommodation in Egypt and Turkey is rising due to increased demand against the background of relatively affordable air travel. If a round-trip plane ticket to Turkey now costs about 40,000 rubles, and to Egypt – about 50,000 rubles, then a flight to Thailand will cost 85,000 rubles. The situation is the same in Sri Lanka, the Maldives, where the average hotel booking check has decreased.Russians have started spending less on hotels in Europe. The average check for a night in a hotel in Spain decreased by 21% (from 11.4 thousand rubles to 9 thousand rubles), in Greece – by 4% (from 6.7 to 6.4 thousand rubles), in Italy – by 13% (from 10.7 thousand rubles to 9.3 thousand rubles).According to representatives of aggregators, now you can book a hotel abroad and pay for it with a card from any Russian bank. But only need to pay full price. You can also pay with a Russian card and any plane ticket. MIR, Visa, MasterCard, JCB cards issued in Russia work.But abroad, using a Russian bank card to pay for a booked hotel will not work. Cards from foreign banks work.