30 June, 2022
Analysts at Marketing Logic, based on publicly available information and the company’s own data mart, have assessed the development level of hospitality infrastructure in major Russian cities with a population of over 250,000, as well as in the country's Top 15 largest cities. As part of the study, the analysts have compared the cities in terms of their saturation with hotels, sanatoriums, and resorts per 10,000 residents.
The rating of Russia's major cities by hotel industry development is led by the resort city of Sochi (over 24 hotels and health resorts per 10,000 residents) by a wide margin. Kaliningrad comes second with an average of 4.2 hotels, Petrozavodsk comes third (3 hotels), while Yakutsk and Ulan-Ude come in fourth and fifth with an average of 2.6 and 2.5 hotels.
| Cities with a population of over 250,000 | Hotels | Sanatoriums | Resorts | Average value | |
| 1 | Sochi | 63,8 | 3,9 | 5,4 | 24,3 |
| 2 | Kaliningrad | 12,3 | 0,0 | 0,1 | 4,2 |
| 3 | Petrozavodsk | 7,8 | 0,1 | 1,1 | 3,0 |
| 5 | Yakutsk | 6,9 | 0,6 | 0,4 | 2,6 |
| 6 | Ulan-Ude | 6,7 | 0,2 | 0,5 | 2,5 |
| 7 | Rostov-on-Don | 6,5 | 0,1 | 0,5 | 2,4 |
| 8 | Tyumen | 5,9 | 0,3 | 0,5 | 2,2 |
| 9 | Irkutsk | 5,5 | 0,3 | 0,8 | 2,2 |
| 10 | Murmansk | 5,5 | 0,1 | 0,7 | 2,1 |
| 11 | Surgut | 5,7 | 0,1 | 0,4 | 2,1 |
| 12 | Smolensk | 5,3 | 0,4 | 0,4 | 2,0 |
| 13 | Taganrog | 4,9 | 0,5 | 0,5 | 2,0 |
| 14 | Kostroma | 4,8 | 0,6 | 0,5 | 2,0 |
| 15 | Kazan | 5,2 | 0,3 | 0,3 | 1,9 |
| 16 | Tomsk | 4,7 | 0,3 | 0,3 | 1,9 |
Number of hotels, sanatoriums and resorts per 10,000 residents in Russia's big cities.
The ranking of big cities in terms of hotel infrastructure development is rounded out by localities with a total of 1 or less than 1 hotel per 10,000 residents (the Top 15 cities with the least developed hotel infrastructure): Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Orel, Grozny, Volzhsky, Nizhny Tagil, Sterlitamak, Izhevsk, Moscow, Ulyanovsk, Ryazan, Chelyabinsk, Makhachkala, Kemerovo, Lipetsk, and Kursk. The following cities are not among the Top 15 big cities with the least developed hotel infrastructure, but they have no more than one hotel per 10,000 inhabitants (average value) Ufa, Novokuznetsk, Vladikavkaz, and Cherepovets.
Among Russia's major cities, the most developed hotel infrastructure relative to the number of residents is in Rostov-on-Don (2.4 hotels per 10,000 inhabitants), Kazan (1.9), Volgograd (1.7), Samara (1.6) and Nizhny Novgorod (1.6). The smallest number of hotels, sanatoriums and resorts is in Moscow (did not make the Top 15, taking the 16th place) and Chelyabinsk (less than 1 hotel per 10,000 inhabitants), Ufa (1), Omsk (1.1) and Novosibirsk (1.1).
| Major cities, megalopolises | Hotels | Sanatoriums | Resorts | Average value | |
| 1 | Rostov-on-Don | 6,5 | 0,1 | 0,5 | 2,4 |
| 2 | Kazan | 5,2 | 0,3 | 0,3 | 1,9 |
| 3 | Volgograd | 4,2 | 0,3 | 0,7 | 1,7 |
| 4 | Samara | 3,9 | 0,4 | 0,6 | 1,6 |
| 5 | Nizhny Novgorod | 4,3 | 0,1 | 0,3 | 1,6 |
| 6 | Krasnoyarsk | 3,5 | 0,2 | 0,6 | 1,4 |
| 7 | Perm | 3,2 | 0,3 | 0,5 | 1,3 |
| 8 | Yekaterinburg | 3,5 | 0,2 | 0,2 | 1,3 |
| 9 | Saint Petersburg | 3,7 | 0,1 | 0,2 | 1,3 |
| 10 | Krasnodar | 3,4 | 0,0 | 0,1 | 1,2 |
| 11 | Voronezh | 3,0 | 0,1 | 0,4 | 1,2 |
| 12 | Novosibirsk | 2,9 | 0,2 | 0,4 | 1,1 |
| 13 | Omsk | 2,9 | 0,2 | 0,3 | 1,1 |
| 14 | Ufa | 2,4 | 0,3 | 0,3 | 1,0 |
| 15 | Chelyabinsk | 2,1 | 0,2 | 0,4 | 0,9 |
Number of hotels, sanatoriums and resorts per 10,000 residents in Russia's major cities.
"Only two megalopolises, Rostov-on-Don and Kazan, made it into the ranking of Russia's big cities in terms of tourism infrastructure development. At the same time, of course, it should be understood that double-digit averages of hotel concentration in megacities are practically impossible due to the large number of their residents. For example, according to publicly available data, Grand Paris, the universally acknowledged tourism capital, has about 2.8 hotels per 10,000 residents. Among Russian cities with a population of over one million, such values are approached by Rostov-on-Don and, a little behind, by Kazan. It is also interesting to compare Sochi's statistical data with that of other big cities. The city's initial positioning as a resort, as well as hosting the 2014 Olympics, has given Sochi a huge advantage in the development of the hotel industry; it is the undisputed leader in our country. We would not want our ranking to upset residents and visitors to cities where the values are lower, rather, this list is a benchmark for the development of tourist destinations within the country. There are leaders, and there are cities with great potential, which can be realized by developing domestic tourism.", - Dmitry Galkin, Managing Partner, Marketing Logic.