The Russian tourists were until recently one of the objectives of the tourism in Spain , Spanish coasts filled with tourists with deep pockets and huge desire to enjoy the sun and culture of our country.
Russian academies began to emerge in areas such as Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, Valencia, Andalusia and the Canary Islands, and even the capital Madrid saw as does a few years the Russian Centre of Science and Culture of Madrid saw increase in number of students of the language of Pushkin. Three years passed giving up classes to be paid for and catch up in terms of prices of other language centers in other foreign languages that are usually applied as French, German or English Russian.
All this bonanza of an emerging country and a colossal potential that promised the best prospects may be over. The numbers do not lie and if in 2013 we were talking about a 31% inflow from Russian tourists in this 2014 has fallen about 10%, the percentage leaves no doubts and 1.58 million Russians visited Spain in 2013 was passed to 1.38 million.
The depreciation has been causing a slow but progressive effect with the news of recent days is foreseeable that even the damage to tourism from Russia is even greater. In this year end tourists in this country they preferred to visit other places like Turkey or Egypt with a good tourism and also became less expensive for their pockets. Logical reaction to the collapse of its currency.
In total figures tourism from Russia is under 3% of tourists visiting Spain but it is true that it was a high-end tourism in a good party left many benefits in the retail and hospitality. The situation is not expected to change in the short term and even next summer figures relating to this year can be reduced even by half. The conflict with Ukraine not detract too much to lower depreciation but has ended up throwing ruin the evolution of a tourist who annually come over to Spain.
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