Yekaterinburg is one of the cities with the most extensively booked hotels alongside such cities as Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Kazan. Russian travelers who coordinate their trips themselves typically book hotel rooms for business trips rather than tourist visits for three days on average, ProHotel, a web portal dedicated to the hotel industry, reports.

However, Yekaterinburg was not among the cities where the number of bookings increased during the high season. The fact that the hotels in Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Nizhniy Novgorod, and Novosibirsk are mostly popular with business travelers was proved by the summertime drop in the number of rooms booked in these cities’ hotels. Now, however, the number of bookings is going up.