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Only 2% of travel agencies have received financial support from the state, showed the survey conducted by the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs (RSPP). 47% — almost stopped work, and not waiting for assistance: firms have stopped paying wages to employees. RSPP representatives stated the need to adopt new measures to support the industry, while some companies continue to operate. However, will this state — is unknown. Meanwhile, independent experts are convinced that without significant subsidies, the travel Agency will not be able to return money to customers for previously purchased tickets.

In 2020 the industry is going through one of the most challenging upheaval in the history of the work. There is no assurance that the company will work after you remove restrictions on flights, no.

Another issue is that real help is not getting virtually no industry, says the expert of the Academy of management Finance and investments Aleksey Krichevskiy. “It’s no secret that the hardest hit industry with high turnover, restaurants, hotels, tour operators, service sector, retail. So at the moment tourism is just one of the industries that declares the impossibility to continue the activities without the support of the state,” he said.

to survive the tour operators need to keep staff who need to pay salaries. According to the chief analyst of Teletrade Peter Pushkarev, if the government decided to return the companies paid in the past year, contributions to social funds, which is not less than 10 billion roubles, the tour operators would be able to pay staff and stay afloat.

But while the government as financial support to the entire tourism industry has allocated a total of 3.5 billion rubles. And now a small or medium-sized travel Agency entrepreneurs easier and cheaper just to close. “When the borders closed and the airplanes do not fly, the loss is irreparable, emphasizes Pushkarev. The money is intended for tour operators and as a result, their customers, stuck.”

First Vice-President of “OPORA Russia” Paul Segal believes that additional financing can be obtained only by those firms who will focus on the domestic market and to develop proposals for the Russian resort towns and popular historical routes within regions. “Many companies risk not to wait for support and closing, and accumulated debt will lead to bankruptcy,” he says.

with regard to possible bankruptcy, it should go strictly in accordance with the law. In this case, tourists will not be the first in a long line of creditors, consisting of hoteliers and carriers to reimburse the cost of tours to customers without the assistance of power will not work.

“If thatoperatorov was supported by significant subsidies, with a responsibility to its customers most of the firms would be able to cope, says Peter Pushkarev. Now, in the absence of such legislation, a refund or non-payment of money — only a question of conscience and having at least some financial resources from the company and for the customer — it’s roulette.”