on Friday, the leaders of the two chambers of the Federal Assembly held a session of the Presidium of the legislative Council, which discussed measures to support the development of domestic tourism.
“the Law has not changed since 1996, systemically, we understand his need to write again,” he said at a meeting of the head of the Federal tourism Agency of sarin doguzova. She added that there are orders of the President and the government order that before the end of next year to adopt a new law on tourism.
“I’m not put off in the long development of the law. I propose to establish an interagency working group of the Council of legislators with participation of relevant ministries, Federal Agency for tourism, and we become the initiators of development of a branch of the law”, – said the Vice-speaker of the state Duma Irina Yarovaya.
the Federation Council is ready to get to work. “I was adopted, I think all will agree. Let us in our solution, we formalize this consolidated position and thereby help each other and country quickly go the way of the adoption of the new law on tourist activities” – said first Vice-speaker of the upper chamber Nikolai Fyodorov.
At the meeting, suggestions were made and the emphases that need to be done in the new regulation.
“the Current law “About bases of tourist activity in the Russian Federation” was adopted in 1996. In many respects, the act focused on the protection of the rights of Russian tourists in outbound tourism”, – said the head of the Federation Council Committee on social policy Inna Svyatenko. “Today it is necessary to create the conditions for recovery of domestic and inbound tourism”, she added.
the Senator cited statistics according to which 55% of Russians have a rest within their region. In her opinion, in the near future such travel will become even more popular as half of the population abandoned vacation plans due to various reasons related to the coronavirus.
Irina Yarovaya suggested to pay attention to another aspect. “We have the concept of “tourism” has emerged in the strategy the mention of the youth travel, but never speaks of tourism for the older generation,” she said. The MP believes that it is necessary to create conditions for the development of rural and ecological tourism.
Vice-speaker of the state Duma agree that the emphasis must be placed on local residents. “If you take the far East, were not all in the Valley of geysers, not all were in lake Kurilsk, it is very important to residents of our territories became available this beauty,” – said Yarovaya.
In the state Duma marked the approximate time of adoption of the new law on tourism. According to the head of the relevant Committee Mikhail Degtyarev, this should be done before the end of the term of office of deputies of the seventh convocation. We will remind, elections of the new the composition of the lower house of the Russian Parliament are scheduled for September 2021.
