B2B MARKETING
Although Russian mass media glittered with headlines such as ‘Russians Exchange Turkey for Local Resorts’, Turkey became a leader of the outbound tourism flow by a long shot. What is more, this is related to both data concerning the general outbound flow and the tourist flow in particular.
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Safety, Sea Leisure, Culture and Cuisine... What Attracts Russian Tourists to Visit a Place?
Based on past years’ experience, Russians give their preference to travel to warm countries such as Vietnam. Therefore, Vietnam is consistently ranked in the top 15 countries of outbound tourism among Russians. How this amazing country attracts tourists from Russia, we learned from Mr. Ha Van Sieu, the Vice Chairman of Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.
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How to Put the Destination on the World Tourist Map in the Eeyes of a Russian Tourist
Anna Härkönen, VisitKarelia Destination Project Coordinator, tells about what marketing activities are helping North Karelia, a small region of Finland, attract Russian travelers.
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In 2020, needs, behavior, and aspirations of Russian travellers keep changing. A new decade in tourism will continue under the umbrella of development of technological and conscious tourism.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Community Types in Social Media: Creating a Community for Business
The social media where you are going to build communication with customers does not matter—first and foremost, you need to define a consistent idea, on the basis of which your content plan will be built. The idea, in its turn, depends on the aim you pursue.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Advertising in VKontakte: Choosing ‘Right’ Public Pages
Unlike such social media as Facebook and Instagram where promotion via influencers plays an oversized role and often works even better than targeted ads, such promotion is not developed in VK. Instead of personal accounts, users began actively developing groups and pages in terms of special interests and narrow aspects, and that let them use them as an advertising tool.
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Where Rich Russians Went on New Year Holidays
The most expensive weekend on this holiday became a family flight from Saint Petersburg to Phuket for two million rubles.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Gripping Content: Effective Approaches to Engage Russian Gamers on Social Media
Russia is called one of the most attractive markets for game developers not for nothing. At that, content is becoming one of the key factors to promote new games in the Russian market: streams, overviews, discussions in communities, posts in social media etc.
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Back to the Future: What is in Store for Business Tourism in a New Decade?
The survey showed that almost half of respondents (47%) consider business trips to be still important for business: neither video conferences (chosen by 15% respondents) nor 3D holograms (20%) will manage to replace personal presence at negotiations.
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Tourists Told about Travel Planning Issues
Tourists consider an application for a visa to be the most difficult stage in preparation for a travel. 24% respondents who took part in a new survey told about it.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Feedback and Its Influence on Brand Reputation
Search results affect choices and decisions to buy or collaborate with one or another company. That is why it is important to monitor what is written about you, your company and products on the Internet.
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Russians with Kids Prefer Beach and Excursion Vacations in Europe and Russia
Most often, travellers with children get to the destination by plane (78.8%), but families with one child fly 10% less often than large families. 11.6% go by car and 8.5% by train. At that, travellers with one child prefer a car to a train almost 3 times more often.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Podcasts for Travellers—Follow the Trends!
Many experts note that podcasts in Russia have gained a second wind this year. So, according to Yandex.Wordstat statistics, Russians’ interest to podcasts has grown twice within the last year, while the dynamics of podcast discussions in social media has increased 4 times.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Social Media, Games, and Music: Online Preferences of Russians under 18
Brand Analytics, the Russian media space analytics service, analyzed 1.78 billion Russian-language messages and found out preferences of youth under 18 years of age.
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Growing Flow of Tourists: Where Russians Went in First Half-Year 2019
According to the latest numbers of the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, the outbound tourist flow from Russia grew by almost 9% in the first half-year of 2019, as compared to the same period in 2018.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Activities of Auto Brands in Russian Social Media: What Content Do Drivers Prefer?
Social media is one of the key channels to communicate with customers. This relates to auto manufacturers, too. Each brand is presented in three and more social media in Russia.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Where Russian Tourists Want to Go
Within the last year, 29% Russians have made tourist trips. Russians are ready to spend more money on overseas than domestic vacations. Russians would like to visit Italy and France, as well as Turkey and the USA most of all.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Popular Destinations in Summer 2019: Learning Russian Tourists’ Queries
Based on web requests, Yandex experts decided to learn where Russians spend their holidays this summer, which countries and resorts have become fashionable in recent years and which ones, on the contrary, became less visited. For this, tourism queries were studies, i.e. ones, to which Yandex replied with links to popular tourism websites.
DIGITAL MARKETING
Every Tenth Russian is Planning a Trip Relying on Bloggers’ Advice
The most popular answer among female respondents was websites with travellers’ reviews—27% respondents address them. Among men, this option is as popular as feedback and recommendations from their friends and relatives: 20% admitted that they chiefly trust them. Women, unlike men, cater to their friends’ feedback a bit less (18%).
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Inspirations of Experiential Marketing in the Russian Market
Experiential marketing makes it possible to step away from the standard communication model in advertising when we try to tell something to a consumer and to proceed to a more interesting model—customer engagement.