The holiday season has already begun. The sight of Russian tourists is riveted to the advertising of travel agencies in order to choose the best of them. After all, everyone wants to spend their holidays in the selected country not only normally, but also to get the most colorful and memorable positive impressions for their money. The rating of tour operators can help with this difficult choice.
Criteria for evaluation
Not everyone can offer a quality vacation, but there are quite large travel companies in Russia that have already earned a name, a reputation, adjusted service and selected the best destinations, analyzing the needs of most of their clients.
Evaluation criteria tour operators a few. Firstly, this is the total number of customers served per year. Secondly, the total revenue for the services provided. Thirdly, customer reviews (tourists) on the compliance of the promised quality with the result. Statistics of this kind have been kept for more than one year, the best of the best is even awarded the Travel Russian Awards.
Why do I need a rating?
How to find out which tour operator is better and more reliable? To do this, a system for their evaluation has been created, and regular customers of travel companies take part in surveys directly. The rating of tour operators is created every year. The objectives of this event are:
- stimulating the improvement of the quality of travel arrangements for customers;
- easier choice for those who are just about to discover the world of tourism.
The best in the tourism business of Russia
Various publications and associations often conduct research on the popularity of travel agencies, but the top ten most successful over the past year according to the award were determined in this order.
- The first place by a wide margin from competitors is the travel company Tez Tour. She won the sympathy of more than 500,000 tourists who voted for her in the survey. At the same time, the total number of vouchers sold went into decline, as in past years, winning companies gained more than 700 thousand.
- The 2nd place is rightfully owned by Pegas Touristik and Coral Travel. These companies scored the same number of votes - more than 300,000. Moreover, Pegasus always shows good results, for example, in 2011 the company took 1st place, and in this - 2nd. The Coral Travel company took 1st place in 2011 according to the Russian Association of Tour Operators, which is also important and adds weight to it in the eyes of customers.
- The third place went to Natalie Tours, which managed to rise immediately by 8 positions in 2 years.
- Biblio Globus took the 4th position, gaining only 8% of the vote. This company is constantly opening up new directions, improving itself, mastering the most interesting things in the world of tourism.
- "Neva" - a travel agency from St. Petersburg - was able to master only the 5th position in the ranking of tour operators.
- 6th place - “TUI”, 8 thousand votes.
- 7th place - Anex Tour, 6.5 thousand votes.
- 8th place was shared by 2 companies with almost 5,000 votes each: Intourist and Sunrise Tour.
- The 9th place was held by Mouzenidis Travel, PAC Group, Solvex and Wind Roses, which scored a little more than 3,000 votes each.
- The last place was shared by Southern Cross, DSBW, Dolphin, Megapolis Tours and Russian Express.
Moscow tour operators
Similar to how the ranking of Russian tour operators is built, the success of individual Moscow firms is tracked. You can vote for a particular company directly on the website or forum of the contest. This initiative belongs to the tour operators themselves, ready to show their competitiveness in organizing interesting trips.
The rating of Moscow tour operators is made taking into account the opinions of customers, so that people can be convinced of the reliability of the companies responsible for the quality of their travel. A very interesting situation was created when voting for Moscow travel agencies, because the top ten included almost the same companies as the Russian dozen of the strongest.