“Let’s try to create it feasible for our country, but still completely non-standard, extraordinary, I would even say, such extensive measures to support the industry, or simply industry with the knees will not stand”, – Medvedev said during an online meeting on development of internal tourism and support the tourism industry. In his words, “virtually the entire hospitality industry was in a very difficult situation, out of work temporarily or completely left almost seven million people.” However, he noted that with all the complexities of the pandemic coronavirus may become a stimulus for the development of domestic tourism. Therefore, Medvedev urged to revise the legislation in the field of tourism to bet on stay in the country.
“Our legislation has always been focused on outbound tourism, a little on the entry – but not on the inside. And infrastructure was weak, and needs of the citizens was aimed primarily for overseas travel. Now the situation has changed dramatically. We absolutely need this law to recycle,” said he. Secretary of the General Council of party Andrey Turchak has promised that in the autumn session of “United Russia” will present the relevant amendments to the law on tourism.
“the Law on tourism was written many years ago, and over the years we were involved patching. We have a lot of work on its actualization”, in turn, noted the head of the Federal tourism Agency of sarin doguzova.
Another key task for the development of domestic tourism is to protect citizens from losses caused by the epidemic of the coronavirus. “In this sense in the sphere of domestic tourism is not an organization that would provide assistance to those who lost their money due to financial problems of tour operators”, – said Medvedev. According to him, various troubles can threaten and those who buy “not quite proven travel products – various vouchers, and other products”. “It is clear that the guarantees under such instruments is low. In the party there is a proposal about what to do with it”, he said.
it is also Necessary to support by the tourism industry. “One of the most acute problems, as I understand it, is the problem of the use of transport, which virtually all structures located in leasing,” – said Medvedev urged “to think about how to create leasing vacation” for such cases, but this has not led to bankruptcy of lessors. In addition, it is necessary to introduce special economic regimes that will reduce the costs of tourism enterprises. The Chairman of the EP recalled the practices of the various regions that you can use in different situations. In his opinion, “the existing industry Association could these local practices to promote and the Executive branch mogle would support best practice, including by assigning a status of special economic zones”.
