crisis, unprecedented frosts and snowfalls are the reason that St. Petersburg's hotels in the New Year holidays are not enjoyed great popularity: they were inhabited worse than last year.
And those tourists that still have chosen the hotels were involved, most likely, discounts and bonuses. Hotels managed to get clients, but in many ways - by reducing the price by 40%. Also arriving in St. Petersburg will not rush to book a hotel in advance: before hotel rooms on New Year's holidays booked since November, and in 2009, people were ringing right before the holidays.
However, lower prices affected not only in St. Petersburg hotels. Prices for hotel rooms for the last year in the world decreased by 14%. Portal Hotels published a new study of the hotel services, based on actual prices of hotels - an amount paid guests 94,000 rooms in 16 000 cities worldwide.
Moscow is still included in the top ten most expensive cities for tourists the world, but such a drop in prices here have not seen yet. Tourists are billed in dollars and euros, the prices have fallen almost by half (44% and 41% respectively). For the British with their sterling fall was only 27%.
So, stay in hotels in Europe for 2009 has fallen in price by 13% in the U.S. - 14% in Asia - 16% in Latin America - by 21%.
price decline noted in St. Petersburg. For tourists, priced in U.S. dollars, the cost of living has declined over the year by 25% in the euro - by 21% in sterling fell by 18%.
Specialists, of course as the main cause of this situation is called a crisis. 70% of Russian tourists from other cities came to St. Petersburg alone, not using the services of travel agencies, and most of them have rented apartments or stopped with friends or relatives.
For comparison, the publication has Fontanka.ru prices of major global hotel chains, which are represented in St. Petersburg. Happened that day "Corinthia Nevsky Palace Hotel cost from 10,019 rubles, which is twice the price in Lisbon (5375 rubles). Mariott will cost us 10 thousand rubles in Moscow, 4,500 rubles in St. Petersburg and 6,837 rubles in Paris. Sokos Helsinki 40% cheaper than in St. Petersburg (3,354 rubles against 7,215 rubles). Night at the St. Petersburg Novotel will cost 19% more expensive than in Amsterdam (7673 and 6276 rubles, respectively).
As it turned out, rent apartments where more profitable for the tourist. In St. Petersburg you can find an apartment from 1800 rubles per day. Be superfluous to say that the apartments offer a variety of different classes of services and different models, just like hotels.