Business tourism is an actively developing industry. This is not surprising-business interests force companies to send its employees to different cities and countries to participate in negotiations, visit conferences, etc. Where are employees of Russian companies most often? We will study the current geography of business trips.
The last time trend is an increase in the costs of companies on business trips, especially foreign ones. According to Onetwotrip for Business, over the past year, expenses for business trips abroad reached up to 43%, and the company sent, on average, by 11-16% larger budgets for trips around Russia.
In many ways, this is facilitated by the growth of the popularity of Bleisure travel. This type of trip implies a combination of solving work tasks with a vacation. Usually, this means that the company allows the employee to stay in the new city for the weekend after the official completion of the business trip.
The Bleisure trend is subject to seasonality. For example, in winter, the most active Bleisure trips with the capture of the weekend are made in January with its New Year holidays. In the summer, Russia is more popular for Bleisure – in the warm season, the number of business trips using weekends can reach 82%.
Let’s talk about where employees of Russian companies often go within the country and abroad.
Popular directions in Russia
The geography of business tourism and business trips in Russia does not change very much from year to year. Moscow and St. Petersburg are steadily occupied by two leading lines. This is logical, because it is in these cities that the offices of leading companies are located, including foreign ones.
But then the list of top-controls within Russia is more actively changing. So if in 2018 the TOP-5 directions for business trips in Russia included Samara, Sochi and Novosibirsk, then a year later, places from the third to the fifth were distributed as follows: Yekaterinburg, Samara, Krasnodar.
Popular directions in Europe
The geography of business tourism in Europe can also change, but there are also stable leaders in the number of trips of employees of Russian companies. This is Germany, Cyprus, Türkiye.
Türkiye
The most popular country among Russian business travelers. This is not surprising – there is a huge number of high -class hotels in which a large number of exhibitions and conferences are taking place.
In addition, Turkey has a strong economy and industry, so Russian companies are doing business and are looking for partners not only in resort cities, but also, for example, in Istanbul and Ankara.
Germany
This country is the most important economic partner of Russia, many companies of the two states are actively interacting. According to statistics, it is in Germany that 60% of the leading world industry exhibitions were organized. Here are the largest exhibition centers in Europe. Only to participate in events, 10 million business tourists come to the country per year.
An important point – industry is very developed in Germany, so a large number of business trips are concentrated in this industry. Russian business travelers visit factories, negotiate the supply of German equipment, etc.
Cyprus
This island is located at the intersection of trade routes and historically played an important role. Today, business here is actively developing because of favorable financial laws-Cyprus has become one of the popular offshores.
A large number of conferences are also taking place here-it is to participate in them that most of the business travelers come here.
