ATOR proposed to defer payments for cancelled tours until 2022

ATOR sent a letter to the Chairman of the government Michael mishustina and Deputy economic development Minister Sergei Galkin. “Forcing the operator to simultaneously disburse funds for the tour will lead to termination activities and, as a result of non-performance of obligations to the tourists who are willing to change the date of the tour”, – said in the letter.

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In ATOR refer to foreign experience. For example, in Germany the tour operators and airlines provided the right to defer until January 1, 2022, payment for the cancelled because of the pandemic coronavirus tours and tickets.

the Operators note the huge losses, which are already estimated in billions of rubles. If we add to this another lost revenues, losses reached hundreds of billions of rubles, noted in ATOR.

the world health organization (who) on 11 March announced a world pandemic due to the spread of a new coronavirus infection. From 19 March the Russian tour operators, in accordance with the recommendations of the Federal tourism Agency has temporarily stopped sending tourists from Russia.