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Maya Lomidze, Executive director of the Association of Tourist operators
If a person is a downhill skier, the most affordable is apartments in Austria, Italy, Switzerland, and Andorra.
If a skier has family with little children or has no experience, it is Finland.
If a person wants to go to the sea, it is Egypt, despite the recommendation by the Foreign Ministry.
If you want something more exotic, you should choose Thailand.
Due to visa changes, this year you can visit two countries using one visa Thailand and Vietnam, and add Laos to them, because there is visa-free regime for Russian citizens.
If you want something especially exotic, this autumn a charter flight to Jamaica becomes regular.
The number of places will be increased, and we believe tickets will be sold at promo prices.
As we have been watching changes in consumer behavior during the whole summer, there are no reasons to say that economic surety appears and that our tourists incomes grow.
More or less stable situation over mountain-skiing tours; they began to be booked in August, and the process is rather intensive.
The leader is Austria, the second place is Italy, and in many resorts about 90% of rooms have already been booked by our tourists.
The situation with the directions of the winter sun is much more complex.
The competition in the direction of the UAE is increasing.
This is one of the alternatives to Egypt. We expect a decline in prices due to the competition and an increase in the tourists' inflow.
Tours to Egypt are also booked quite actively for this visa-free destination with lots of tours.
People do not wait for the last moment to book a tour.
Thailand is also among the hits for New Year. Popular hotels are being booked now. The priorities of the tourists will be clear early in December.
Among New Year bestsellers I can also call Christmas, New Year Europe France, the Czech Republic, Finland, Italy in les extent.
There are bookings, but in comparison to the last year we can say that booking trending decreased.
There are fewer of them in comparison to the same period of the last year.