MITT Russia Coming Back in March 2017
The Moscow International Travel and Tourism Exhibit (MITT), Russia’ s largest journey show returns for its 24th version on 14-16 Mar 2017 in Moscow. Up to twenty-eight, 000 travel industry professionals and much more than 1, 600 exhibitors are required to attend and take part.
2017 marks a more powerful year for Russian tourism. Traveler traffic through Moscow Vnukovo Airport terminal grew by 49. 5% to at least one. Some 8 million passengers in the month of January 2017, compared to the same 30 days last year. Popular destinations included Phuket, Bangkok, Goa, Istanbul, Milan, Larnaca and Dubai.
Another positive indicator for the Ruskies tourism market is that holidaymakers are now able to choose Turkey as their top traveling destination. In fact, Turkish tourism industry leaders expect over 5 mil Russians to visit Turkey this year since the sanctions have been lifted. Chicken will make up the largest national team at MITT.
Dr. Alper Ö zkan, Movie director of Culture and Tourism, Counsellor’ s Office, Turkish Embassy within Moscow states “Both Chicken and the Russian Federation have been getting all necessary steps to reinstate relationships to its previous high amounts. Tourism offers played a major part in helping enhance economic relations. Turkish operators can also be observing increasing demand. I believe that will Turkey misses the Russian visitors and Russian guests miss Chicken.”
This season also marks the ‘Season of Cultural Tourism’ between Spain and Russia. Spain has shown to be the ‘Partner Country’ associated with MITT 2017. This is highly appropriate considering 1, 007, 709 Ruskies tourists visited in 2016 ? 2.2% more than compared to 2015, according to the National Statistics Institute associated with Spain.
Spain was the most popular destination for Russian vacationers from January to September 2016. Catalonia, who will host their own endure, is among the most visited destinations.
Luis Boves Martin, Movie director, Turespana, Russia states “The particular strategy for Turespana in the Russian marketplace is to widen the beach item both on traditional and brand new coastlines of Spain. We would like in order to strengthen our ‘Sun plus Beach’ offerings by combining associated with more options, such as culture, town breaks, gastronomy, museums, shopping, sports activities and MICE.”
Other Mediterranean destinations also have seen significant increases in Ruskies arrivals: Italy will increase their existence at MITT by 30%, getting traditionally been one of the exhibition’ s i9000 largest national pavilions. In 2015, 481, 00 Russian tourists stopped at Italy and this figure set to raise as operators now look to take full advantage of Italy’ s enormous variety in order to attract Russian tourists in all cost levels.
The travel and leisure boards of Sardinia and Calabria will host their own stands in order to reflect the fast-growing recognition of both top Italian vacation destinations. The Italian national remain will be at Pavilion 2, Corridor 1.
Do it again MITT participant, Cyprus attracted 787, 000 Russian tourists in 2016 – this is a 50% growth.
Eilat (Israel), a well-known resort town on the Red Ocean, welcomed a fourfold increase associated with 10, 957 Russian tourists in the last year ? since their effective participation as MITT’ s 2016 ‘Partner Region’.
MITT welcomes the comeback of Dominican Republic who have observed their number of Russian arrivals raise by 97.5% to 132,609 visitors in 2016, considering that their last participation.
Thailand also returns in order to MITT. 1.09 million Ruskies tourists visited the country in 2016, marking a 23% year? on? year growth from 2015. The particular Thai Department of Tourism claims that Russia is among the fastest increasing sources of tourism for the nation.
Japan is another well-known Asian destination which has increased their particular participation at MITT. Luxury travel and leisure is a strong growth sector to get Japan as Russia has a substantial middle? and upper? class populace.
Valentin Shestak, Deputy Director of the London Workplace, Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO) states: “We are pleased to declare that the Japanese national stand from MITT has sold out. Around 55,800 visits from Russia had been registered. We hope this figure is placed to increase due to the relaxation of Australian visa requirements for Russian citizens that was implemented on 1 January 2017. JNTO has recently opened an office within Moscow to stimulate demand to get Japan bound travel from Russian federation.”
Household tourism is also on the rise with Ruskies tourists spending $10. 47 billion dollars on domestic trips, compared to $5. 57 billion spent in 2015. Many regions will be participating on MITT, with the Altai Region formally becoming MITT’ s 2017 ‘Partner Region’.
Maria Badakh, International Sales Movie director, MITT, ITE Group states: “The Russian outbound market provides definitely picked up in 2016. There were a lot of interest for MITT through well? established regions, but also was able to attract new exhibitors, such as Venezuela, Burundi, Palestine and Andhra Pradesh (India). Destinations which are returning to MITT after an absence include Botswana, Jamaica, Kerala (India), Romania plus Tanzania – all of whom look for to attract more Russian website visitors as the country’ s tourism sector strengthens.”
