Belarusians entered the top three in booking Russian hotels in January-September 2026

The number of bookings of Russian hotels by guests from Belarus remains consistently high - this is stated in the message of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST) with reference to the information of a large hotel chain that unites 55 objects in 33 cities of Russia.

The PCT noted:

- According to the hotel network, in January-September 2026, the total number of foreign guests remained at the level of last year. In the first half of the year, the company recorded an increase of 3.4 percent year-on-year. Visitors from China accounted for 35 percent of all foreign visitors to the network - about the same as a year earlier. The share of guests from Turkey was 11.2 percent, from Belarus - 10.9 percent, from Saudi Arabia - 7.2 percent.

Another 35.7 percent of foreign visitors came from Vietnam, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, India, Egypt, UAE, Oman and Indonesia.

As sb.by reported earlier, Belarus in the first half of the year became one of the leading countries in Russia in terms of the number of organized tourists. Early bookings by Russians of hotels in Belarus for the New Year increased more than 4 times