Recruitment company in the customer portfolio which occupied a good deal of orders from international companies operating in the Russian market, have noted reduction in the number of vacancies by 10-20%. Guide St. Petersburg office of Business FM radio station in term plans to reduce the number of employees in the north-west of representation by 50%. Plans to station managers influenced the overall situation in the market. 'As a result, we are always looking where to cut costs and in times of crisis we must all the more to minimize the cost. " True, in the Moscow office, according to some reports, the plans for St. Petersburg's colleagues do not know. Tour Operators Tour Operators of Russia also sounding the alarm.
On Press conference on the financial crisis, representatives of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) said that the hardest this cataclysm will manifest itself in the tourist business in January or February of next year, when just expect the largest number of bankruptcies among travel agencies. According to experts of tourist business, the first signs of a recession in the travel market appeared at the beginning of III-rd quarter. For the first time in 17 years history of the Russian tourist industry this year on the market there is no major tour operator, which on the basis of the summer season would be able to declare on their successes. In May, according to representatives of the association, yet there was an increase of sales, and in June there has been a decline.