Analysts from the online travel agency Kupibilet found out which cities and countries Russians dream of flying to, but do not dare to, and where they buy tickets without much thought.
To do this, they looked at the ratio of ticket searches to purchases and compiled a ranking of destinations based on which users show the greatest and least determination.
Thus, the top 15 dream destinations generated the most requests that did not end with the purchase of tickets.
1. Novosibirsk – Bangkok
2. Moscow – Maldives
3. Moscow - Tenerife
4. Moscow - Los Angeles
5. Saint Petersburg – Budapest
6. Buston (Tajikistan) – Moscow
7. Irkutsk – Bangkok
8. St. Petersburg – Osh (Kyrgyzstan)
9. Saint Petersburg – Bali
10. Krasnodar – Tbilisi
11. Moscow – Phu Quoc (Vietnam)
12. Novosibirsk – Phuket
13. Moscow - Sydney
14. Helsinki – Prague
15. Kazan – Dubai
The second top 15 reflects the opposite picture: these are the destinations where travelers showed the greatest determination – searches most often ended in a purchase.
1. Moscow – Chisinau
2. Moscow – Baku
3. Vladivostok – Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
4. Kaliningrad – Saint Petersburg
5. Moscow – Naberezhnye Chelny
6. Chisinau – Saint Petersburg
7. Mineralnye Vody – Moscow
8. Moscow – Orenburg
9. Murmansk – Saint Petersburg
10. Moscow – Makhachkala
11. Ekaterinburg – Almaty
12. Moscow – Mineralnye Vody
13. Khanty-Mansiysk – Moscow
14. Moscow – Samara
15. Moscow – Kzyl-Orda (Kazakhstan)
Dream destinations are mostly distant countries and exotic islands: Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Maldives, Tenerife, America, Australia, UAE, but there are also European destinations: Budapest, Tbilisi, Prague. "Reality flights" are popular destinations within the country.
Source: trn-news.ru