By Vestnik Kavkaza
According to the general director of VCIOM Valery Fyodorov, answering the question on where Russian citizens would like to spend vacations, most of them dream about travelling abroad (33%), while only 16% want to spend vacations at home.
Beach tourism is the irreplaceable leader: 38% of Russian citizens prefer it. The second place is taken by healthcare resorts (21%); staying at home – 20%, hiking – 17%. The least popular variant is vacation in resort houses (10%).
Most of the Russian citizens spent last summer at home (47%). The rest went to summer cottages (25%), other cities of Russia (10%), the Black Sea coast (10%), abroad (8%), and other places in the territory of the former USSR (3%) and the Baltic Sea region (2%).
The majority of the Russian citizens are sure that this year their vacations will be as bad and good as the last year (59%).
This summer 45% of interviewed people plan to stay at home (last year there were 50% of them). Each fifth person wants to spend summer in a village cottage (22%). Some people plan to go travelling to other Russian cities (11%), the Black Sea coast (10%), abroad (9%), other places in the territory of the former USSR (2%), and the Baltic Sea region (1%). People explain their staying at home by lack of money (47%), absence of vacation due to hardworking (12%), health problems (10%), family reasons (7%), and housework (4%).
As for children summer holidays, 37% say that their children will stay at home (42% last year). 17% of interviewed people state that their children will rest in summer cottages. 12% of Russian citizens plan to send children to children camps, the same number of people wants to take them to the Black Sea region of the Caucasus; 9% will travel to other places of Russia; 7% - abroad; 2% - to the CIS countries.
People who plan to travel intend to spend about 27.5 thousand rubles for their trips per every person.
