Tourist season, though late, but still started, the borders closed. Going to tourists?
Zarina doguzova: Now our main task is to create the opportunity for affordable travel around the country at the expense of package tours available air. We are working in this direction. A huge number of tours is ready to offer this season. The sites most tour operators plenty of available travel from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok. Russian Baltika, Kaliningrad, resort districts of St. Petersburg. For lovers of big water – regions of the Volga from Tver to Astrakhan region. This and the far East. Unexpected directions – Ural, Republic of Bashkortostan, is not yet known many Russians in the Caucasus.
of Course, even in Siberia. This year we offer affordable tours, not only in the Republic of Altai and Altai Krai. We have a new Khakassia. We launched also available tours to Baikal in Buryatia. This tour is an attempt to show the citizens of the country a unique, fantastic beauty of nature of lake Baikal, on the one hand, and such diverse and distinctive culture of Buryatia. And of course, the Russian North with its incredible wildlife. It Karelia, and Murmansk oblast, and the Komi Republic.
How much are these trips?
Zarina doguzova: Cost, of course, depend on the directions. But on average, this year, for example, prices for a week’s holiday with flights, accommodation, meals in the Altai start from 30-35 thousand rubles. It is unprecedented. Such offers tour operators are forming in other areas. You need to ask tour operators, they will be able to choose the interesting offer.
Important category of tourists – families with children. Some suggestions from the Federal tourism Agency has for them.
Zarina doguzova: We are preparing a great program together with the Russian geographical society in support of children’s tourism. I think I’ll start it closer to the fall. The rules of this program are now in active phase of development.
with regard to family trips, all the programs that we are now working with the tour operators and Charter flights, and scheduled air transportation, primarily focused on families with children. This category of travelers is about 65% of all clients of the travel agencies. They travel just more expensive. About 30% – couples without children and company, and 5% is for all other categories. So we will continue to support the family tourism. For example, will act subsidy to reduce the cost of tour packages. Now this mechanism is being worked out.
Will be subsidized air service to increase the availability of tours for citizens?
Zarina doguzova: Withreduces the cost of transportation is very important for the formation of accessible travel. 35-40 regions may qualify to enter the program of subsidizing regular flights. Somewhere else a dozen regions exactly can be considered as areas where it can be used Charter air service.
I have said that we are working on the launch of Charter flights from Central Russia to the far East. All the details have not yet agreed, the final decision is not accepted, but this direction in our focus.
I conducted a small survey among your circle of friends. People often do not even come to mind that can be so simply plan your trip from Moscow to the far East. Rather, it is associated with an exclusive, expensive journey. Our task is a stereotype to break down and do the far East available to the residents of Central Russia in the near future.
But we do not exclude any region of our country where there are hotel infrastructure. Of course, before you run some program, see how to get there, where to live and what to do, what to see.
And if you open foreign resorts, domestic flights will survive the competition?
Zarina doguzova: Our goal – the development of domestic tourism. But we want to develop domestic tourism, certainly not at the expense of limiting out. Many domestic flights now are not inferior to foreign. Our task is to create a tourism in Russia, such products, so to develop the infrastructure, to the option of staying in the country was the best choice for our citizens. When the authorities will make a decision and foreign governments will be willing to accept our tourists, Rosturizm any artificial barriers definitely will not create.
How are we going to develop inbound tourism?
Zarina doguzova: a Key measure to support tourism – start electronic visa from 1 January 2021 on the territory of the whole country. This decision was made by the President last year. It is now in the final stages of implementation. A bill in the state Duma, plans are in force. We hope that the epidemiological situation will only continue to improve and really no later than 1 January 2021, we will be able to take a long-awaited foreign tourists.
last year started subsidizing tour operators for bringing foreign tourists, it is common international practice. There were many skeptics on the part of our colleagues who did not believe in the success of the mechanism. He seemed quite complicated. We significantly modified several times in order to make effective and comfortable, not bureaucratic for tour operators. Pilot, I believe, was successful. As the roofing��it will be possible we will be expanding and upgrading this measure of support.
Industry is gradually recovering, but the situation is complicated. Is it possible bankruptcies of tour operators?
Zarina doguzova: We do everything to ensure that major bankruptcies in the market did not happen. There is financial support. Communicate with tour operators, trying in working order to solve a number of problems. Remember one of the last occasions when I had to sign the order about an exception of tour operator of “nick” from the Federal register of tour operators. Failed to develop a mutually acceptable solution. But after we worked for a tour operator mechanisms have offered a comfortable option, and colleagues joined the Foundation of personal responsibility during the day. The tour operator was once again included in the registry. Think this is a positive signal both for tourists and for tour operators and are very grateful to the management of the tour operator, which, in my opinion, has taken a socially responsible position. We will continue to monitor the market and let’s hope that no major resonance of bankruptcies we are not going to happen.
What support will be provided to industry?
Zarina doguzova: range of government support measures provided under the national economic recovery plan. There are significant measures to support the hospitality businesses that were among the most affected sectors in terms of the pandemic. Support of tour operators. One of the key measures that will be of interest to investors is the interest rate subsidy for the construction of new hotels and reconstruction of old and construction of multifunctional complexes. In fact, this cheap loans for investors who will be willing to invest in the industry. This program is run for the first time. National economic recovery plan is under consideration of the government. I hope that in the near future it will be adopted. Wait for the approval of the plan.
