New Year holiday in Murmansk fell by 25% even after the increase in the number of bookings

The average cost of a night in hotels in Murmansk during the New Year holidays will be about 6.2 thousand rubles. This was reported by TASS with reference to the study of the travel service. Last winter, bookings increased year-on-year by 56 percent.

Compared to 2025, the price decreased by 25 percent. A year ago, a day in the capital of the Arctic in the New Year holidays cost an average of 8.3 thousand rubles. The cost of a night in Murmansk was one of the lowest in Russia.

In addition to Murmansk, available options for the New Year were Tver and Krasnodar. The top 10 budget cities also included Smolensk, Pyatigorsk, Vologda and Yekaterinburg.

Interest in winter holidays in the Murmansk region remains high. According to the booking service, which the Ministry of Tourism of the region referred to last spring, the number of accommodation bookings in the region for December 2025 and January 2026 increased by 56 percent compared to the same period a year earlier. And according to Rosstat, for the first half of 2026, 302.3 thousand people stopped in collective accommodation facilities of the region - 48.8 thousand more than in the same period last year.

Earlier, “MK in Murmansk” said that the Murmansk region entered the top 5 regions of Russia in terms of tourist flow.