Russians love to vacation in one region: demand for tourist trips has increased almost 6 times

The most popular type of vacation is sanatoriums

Russians increasingly prefer wellness holidays to excursion and contemplative holidays – the demand for trips to sanatoriums has tripled over the past year, analysts at one of the popular travel booking services report. The geography of trips has also changed – along with health resorts in the Crimea, Krasnodar Territory and Mineral Waters, sanatoriums located in the Urals and Siberia are also popular.

Wellness resorts in Siberia have seen the sharpest rise in popularity over the past year – this is where those who decide to use their holidays to improve their physical and mental well-being go.

In Siberian sanatoriums, a 467% increase in clients is recorded – this is almost 6 times more than a year earlier. The sanatoriums of the Urals are not lagging behind their neighbors: here the increase is 433% – about five times. An increase in demand is also noted in the Volga and Southern Federal Districts, as well as in the North Caucasus.

The Tyumen region has become the leader – tourist trips here are becoming increasingly popular due to the hot thermal springs, which allow Tyumen to compete with the largest balneological resorts in Europe. Neighboring Yekaterinburg also boasts thermal pools, and in Altai, Belokurikha, located in the mountains, has long been considered the traditional leader of sanatorium treatment. As for the Kemerovo region, tourists there are attracted by the opportunity to combine sanatorium treatment with relaxation at ski resorts.

According to experts, the location of the resorts is of great importance – the lion’s share of clients in the sanatoriums of the Urals and Siberia are residents of the nearest regions, for whom it is important to be able to get to their holiday destination without spending too much time and money and without having to deal with acclimatization.