Greece, Turkey, Cyprus and Croatia are the most popular destinations abroad for Russians tourists, during the “velvet tourist season”, as it is called in Russia in the two months September – October.
This follows from research of Russia’s largest insurance company Rosgosstrakh, published by the state news agency TASS and rebroadcasts the RES EIA.
The analysis of customer preferences was based on contracts travel insurance, purchased so far for September – October 2021 and highlight Greece as most popular all countries with 15.5% of the total number of travel insurance policies.
They follow Turkey (10.4%), Cyprus (5.6%), Croatia (4.4%) and Italy (3.2%).
Rare but existing travel destinations are Morocco, Saudi Arabia, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and China, according to the same source.
“Although the pandemic still prevents our customers from actively traveling the world, travel to foreign countries that require insurance coverage abroad is still quite popular in the velvet era,” he said. Dmitry Litovchenko, head of the digital entrepreneurship department of the Russian insurance giant, commenting on the research data.
Rosgosstrakh is a member of the Otkritie Bank Group, has more than 1,600 offices in Russia and employs about 50,000 employees and insurance agents.
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