The tourist flow to European countries has decreased by 90-95% since the beginning of the year.
Europe is suffering from a downturn in the tourist wave. The flow of Russians vacationing in the Old World has decreased by 90-95% since the beginning of 2022.
For example, in Italy, one of the travel agencies said that it lost 90% of its turnover due to the lack of tourists from Russia.
According to the heads of one of the travel companies in Italy, the turnover used to be about 8 million euros, and now the figures have fallen to about 120 thousand, RIA Novosti writes.
There are fewer customers due to problems with flights. For example, only the most dedicated tourists come to the south of Italy now, but there are very few of them.
Also, Russians began to take fewer excursions and spend more time in hotels and on nearby beaches.
Restaurants, drivers, and tour guides also bear losses.
In 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic, 1.7 million Russian tourists went to Italy, who left about a billion euros on vacation.
This year Rome alone will lose about 150 million euros due to the global situation.
The French Riviera lost 50 million euros this year due to the fact that Russians do not go there.
According to the President of the French Tourism Committee Alexandra Borchio-Fontimp, in the pre-pandemic 2019, Russians ranked ninth among foreigners who traveled to the Cote d’Azur, and they accounted for 7% of the region’s revenue from international tourism, which is about 300 million euros.
The beaches of Bulgaria and many other foreign countries once beloved by Russians have been emptied.
According to ATOR representatives, the tourist flow from Russia to Europe has decreased from a million to several tens of thousands of people.
According to the head of the association Maya Lomidze, Russians made from 1.3 to 3.9 million trips to Italy alone before the pandemic.
According to the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, the damage from the loss of tourists from Russia in Europe is estimated at 21 billion euros.
First of all, he linked this with the ban on the entry of Russians to a number of countries.
“Lowering the iron curtain around their countries, because of their own stupidity and ignorance, they punish themselves”, – Volodin wrote in his Telegram.
Earlier, topNews wrote that Dmitry Medvedev made an appeal to the Europeans.
According to the deputy head of the Security Council, Russia is open to them.