ATOR Analytical Service made a presentation based on the data of Czech Statistics Office and TOURMARKET.INFO monitoring system of the price of competitors.
As a result of the first six months of the year, Russian market took the 2nd place (6.6%) in general rating of arrivals of foreigners to Czech Republic, ceding to Germany (22%) and taking the lead over Poland (6.1%), the UK (5.9%) and Italy (5.7%). The tourist flow from Russia increased by 14% during the first six months of 2010 and amounted to 184 thousand people. The number of the nights of the Russians increased by 13.2%. As for the number of the nights during the first six months of the year, the Russian market also takes the 2nd place with the indicator of 12% after the Germans (26%).
The average duration of stay of the Russians in the hotels amounted to 5.2 nights during the first six months of the year. More than 84% of the Russians stayed in the hotels of Prague and Karlovy Vary.
The analysis of the demand for the tours to Czech Republic based on statistics of TourMarket.Info
Czech Republic took the 13th place in number of the visitors of TopHotels.ru website with the share of 1.4%. The number of the visitors interested in Czech Republic increased by 40% during the period from January to July 2010 in comparison with the same period of last year (157 thousand in 2010 and 110 thousand in 2009).
Czech Republic took the 15th place (with the share of 0.8%) in number of the requests in TourIndex system during the period from January to July 2010. The number of processing requests increased by 60% during the first seven months of 2010 in comparison with the same period of last year (40 thousand in 2010 and 25 thousand in 2009).
The most popular tour operators in TourIndex system
The first place takes LantaTour Voyage with the share of 14%. Then goes AvroraIntur (10.6%), TravelLand (9.7%), Neva (9.4%), Capital Tour (8.5%), Russian Express (8.1%), NTK Intourist (5.7%), Intravel-Stoleshniki (5.3%), BSI Group (4.4.%) and Sunrise tour (4.1%).
According to ATOR survey, Russian tour operators note, that the demand for the tours to Czech Republic has increased this year. source: www.atorus.ru
