Not only Turkey benefits from Europe being closed to Russians: Russian tourists entered the top 5 visitors to another popular tourist destination and improved their own results of “pre-Covid” times. We are talking about the UAE and cities such as Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
N.B. Earlier, Turprom wrote that “The rating of the most visited countries and cities in the world by tourists in 2022 has been published: the Russians have strongly influenced it.”
Thus, the number of tourists from Russia in Dubai turned out to be 5% more than in 2019. According to official data from the Department of Tourism and Trade Marketing of Dubai, 454,000 Russian tourists visited Dubai in the first 9 months of 2022. In 2019, their number reached 433 thousand people. As a result, Russian tourists entered the top 5 foreign visitors to Dubai in 2022.
The capital of the Emirates, Abu Dhabi, is also not deprived of demand from Russians. Moreover, in percentage terms, the growth is much more significant. In June this year, the number of our tourists in the emirate increased by 50% compared to 2019, in July – by 78%, in August – by 71.5%.
Recall that in the first place in ” win” in connection with the demand of Russian tourists turned out to be Turkey. They generally raised Antalya to first place in the ranking of the most visited cities. Also, according to official statistics for September, almost 11% of all tourists who came to Istanbul turned out to be Russians. In figures, this is 170 thousand people. As a result, “tour operators are preparing packages and charter flights as demand increases,” Turkish sources write. Read the details at this link.
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