Russia is one of the fastest growing outbound travel markets in the world. But which to which travel hotspots are its citizens headed?

Earlier today we published an interview (Racking up points with the BRICS) with PointsHound a hotel booking service and loyalty points aggregator that has its sights set on consumers in the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China). If that was of interest, then take a look at this Hotels.com infographic to see how hoteliers can benefit from the rapidly growing Russian travel market. Just to give you a taste, acccording to the European Travel Commission,35.7 million tourists from Russia took a foreign trip in 2012, up from just 7.7 million in 2006. In fact, the country has become a top performing growth market for destinations and international outbound travel is forecast to grow by 7.5% a year on average to 2017.

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