The holiday season has already begun.The view of Russian tourists is chained to advertising travel agencies in order to choose the best of them. After all, everyone wants to spend a holiday in the chosen country is not just normal, but also get the most colorful and memorable positive impressions for their money. The rating of tour operators can help in this difficult choice.
Criteria for evaluation
Qualitative rest can offer far fromall, but there are quite large tourist companies in Russia that have already earned their name, reputation, established services and picked the best directions, having analyzed the needs of the majority of clients.
The evaluation criteria for tour operators are somewhat different.First, this is the total number of customers served per year. Secondly, the total revenue for the services rendered. Thirdly, feedback from buyers (tourists) on the compliance of the promised quality received in the end. Statistics of this kind are conducted for more than one year, the best of the best even awarded the "Travel Russian Awards".
Why do I need a rating?
How do you know which tour operator is better and more reliable?For this purpose, a system for assessing them has been created, and participation in surveys is taken directly by regular customers of travel companies. The rating of tour operators is created every year. The objectives of this event are:
- stimulating the improvement of the quality of travel organization for clients;
- facilitating the choice of those who are only going to discover the world of tourism.
The best in the tourism business in Russia
Various publications and associations often conduct research on the popularity of travel agencies, but the ten most successful over the past year, according to the version of the award, was determined in this order.
- 1st place with a large margin from competitorsis a tourist company "Tez Tour". She won the sympathy of more than 500,000 tourists who voted for her in the poll. At the same time, the total number of vouchers sold went down, as in the past years, winning companies were gaining more than 700 thousand.
- 2 nd place by right belongs to "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 the 1 st place, and in this - the 2 nd. The company "Coral Travel" took 1st place in 2011 according to the association of tour operators of Russia, which is also important and adds weight to it in the eyes of customers.
- The third place went to the company "Natalie Tours", which managed to rise up to 8 positions in two years.
- "Biblio Globus" took the 4th position, gaining only 8% of the vote. This company constantly opens new directions, improves itself, masteres the most interesting in the world of tourism.
- "Neva" - a travel agency from St. Petersburg - was able to master only the 5th position in the rating of tour operators.
- 6th place - "TUI", 8 thousand votes.
- 7th place - "Anex Tour", 6,5 thousand votes.
- 8th place was shared by 2 companies, which collected almost 5000 votes: Intourist and Sunrise Tour.
- 9th place at Muzenidis Travel, PAC Group, Solvex and Windrose, which scored slightly more than 3000 votes each.
- The last place was shared by the Southern Cross, DSBW, Dolphin, Megapolus Tours and the Russian Express.
Tour Operators in Moscow
Similarly to how the rating is builttour operators in Russia, the records of the successes of individual Moscow firms are recorded. You can vote for a specific company right on the site or the contest forum. This initiative belongs to the tour operators themselves, ready to show their competitiveness in organizing interesting trips.
The rating of tour operators in Moscow is compiled fromtaking into account the opinions of customers, so that people can be sure of the reliability of the firms responsible for the quality of their travel. 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.