The most popular place for Russians to relax in summer has been named

Crimea has become the most popular holiday destination for Russians this summer. The number of hotel bookings on the peninsula has grown by 44% in a year.
Such statistics were provided to Gazeta.Ru by the press service of the Ostrovok service.

The top 3 fast-growing destinations included Amur Region (+40% bookings per year) and Sakhalin (+37%). In Kamchatka, the number of hotel bookings increased by 30% year-on-year.

In the Moscow region, growth was 24%, in  Karachay-Cherkessia – 22%, in Krasnoyarsk Krai – 12%, and in Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Leningrad and Tver regions – 10% each.

The top ten most popular regions included Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Krasnodar and Stavropol regions, Tatarstan , as well as Rostov, Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod regions.

The average cost per night in booked hotels was 5.7 thousand rubles, which is 19% more than last year.

Most often, Russians booked hotels without stars – they accounted for a third of bookings.

The study was conducted in September.

Previously, foreign cities were named where Russians planned their October vacation.