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The Federal Tourism Agency will ask the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency to recommend airlines to return to the travel operators the advance payment for blocks of seats to Italy and other countries where the tour sale is prohibited. Foreign hoteliers will be offered to change prepaid reservations to later dates. Under consideration is the question of changing the deadline for payment of charges by travel operators to the Tourist Assistance Fund from April to July, as well as cancellation of charges to the reserve fund this year. Dmitry Gorin told Rossiyskaya gazeta about this.(Read more)

In the studio of the ChEZ program on the RBC channel, Dmitry Gorin discussed the effect of coronavirus on the travel market. “We have experienced many epidemics and economic crises. It is clear that the market will consolidate even more. A difficult period awaits us, which, alas, will not last one month, but the summer season ahead. The most important thing now is the psychological mood of the tourist. It is wrong to refund pre-purchased summer tours in a panic and lose early booking discounts, lose the course. It is better to wait.” (More from 13 min.)

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“Good news is already coming - out of 86 thousand of those sick in China, 46 thousand have recovered. Vietnam has already defeated the epidemic. This suggests that we will overcome the virus. A difficult situation remains in Europe, while Italy has promised our citizens to extend the visa until the end of the year. Now we recommend choosing countries with the minimum number of infection cases, there are many such countries. Everywhere in airports, hotels, restaurants, unprecedented measures are taken to prevent coronavirus. Early booking tours across Russia are very popular,” said Dmitry Gorin on OTR (More)

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“In Italy and China, tours are canceled massively except for the summer season. In a very difficult situation are the airlines, travel agencies, hotels. We feel a 20-25% drop in sales. Regular flights are reduced by 40%,” Dmitry Gorin said on the air of the Vesti program on Rossiya 1. (More from 36 min.)


12.03.2020