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The Ministry of Economic Development will evaluate tour operators according to the degree of risk. As follows from the document, an unscheduled check awaits the company which will gain five or more points during the year. The points will be given based on monitoring suppliers' financial statements, as well as Rosturism data. Tour operator law violation complaints or possible financial insolvency can become a reason for unscheduled inspection. Dmitry Gorin agrees with this viewpoint: according to him, the Ministry of Economic Development is preparing a basis for control over industry and international procedures in the market. E-ticket and the Federal Register of Travel Agents will also contribute to this. “All these measures are aimed at protecting the tourists’ rights and compliance with the law, and the market participants in the legal field are not threatened,” he told Profi.travel.

In a conversation with Moscow 24, Dmitry Gorin supported development of a bill that allows tourists to control the purchase of tours using the Electronic Tour Ticket System. According to experts, the innovation will better protect the consumer, make the system more transparent. Electronic ticket is protection of the tourists’ interests so that unscrupulous companies that acted, unfortunately, in the past periods, clearly set up insurance and personal liability funds in case of bankruptcy. Also, so that the amount of obligations of the operator which they undertake, including payment for tours, is guaranteed. An electronic ticket as a regulator of the travel industry will enable tracking the real relationship to ensure these obligations, and a traveler will be able to check at any time how this is done in aviation, for example,” Gorin said. (Read more)

Inbound tourism inexorably wins over the outbound, and past holidays have once again demonstrated this. According to the Federal Tourism Agency, most Russians stayed on vacation in domestic resorts. “The forecasts that were given for the New Year holidays were justified. Domestic tourist flow to Russian resorts has grown. In the Crimea alone, 10% more tourists than last year spent the New Year holidays, more than 200 thousand people. There was growth in other areas. Tourists rested in Sochi, Kavminvody, in Altai. The north-west of the country - St. Petersburg and other destinations were also in demand. About 5 million tourists came to Moscow for the New Year holidays,” Dmitry Gorin told Regnum.

On the air of the National News Service, Dmitry Gorin explained how the new law on personal data will influence travel business in Turkey. According to him, the new rules forbid hotel employees to copy passports of the guests, which makes tourist registration more difficult. However, this has almost no effect on customers of four-star and five-star hotels. “In fact, law on personal data came into effect in April, 2016, and this made almost no impact on tourist registration in the hotels. In this situation, travel agencies will do everything to simplify the procedure, submit information to hotels in advance so as not to create queues,” Gorin added (More at)

The vice-president of the Association of Russian Travel Operators Dmitry Gorin, in an interview with Sputnik Armenia, commented on the statement by Minister of Economy Tigran Khachatryan that Armenia has become a more attractive destination for Russian, Georgian and Iranian tourists. “The dynamics are positive, Russian tourists are attracted to Armenia with its unique culture, history, cuisine, but, above all, travel availability. There is no language barrier, you can travel with Russian passports,” he said. (More at)

In 2019, a record number of tourists from Russia visited Cuba, due to the Association of Russian Tour Operators. The total of 178 thousand Russians, this is 30% more than in 2018 - 137 thousand tourists. In 2020, Cuba expects about 200 thousand tourists from Russia. Among the reasons for the increase in tourist flow, several interrelated aspects can be distinguished, Dmitry Gorin said in an interview to Gazeta.Ru. In particular, Russian operators having their own fleet are currently actively developing organized package travel offers with charter flights to Cuban direction. And supply and demand depend on each other. (Read more)


21.01.2020