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The Association of Travel Operators explained whether Russia was expecting disruption to the tourist season.
Travel operators do not know when the time limits for closing borders and issuing visas will be removed. Therefore, they are already planning their activities for the third or fourth quarter of this year.
- In this situation, unfortunately, you can only plan future trips. And, probably, we are already building our plans for the third or fourth quarter of this year, because we do not understand how long this will last,” Gorin said in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda radio. (More)

How will the travel industry survive? Vesti FM talked about this with Dmitry Gorin, chairman of the Turpomosch association committee.
Freezing payments for canceled tours for 2 years - this proposal was made by the Association of Russian Travel Operators. ATOR has developed a set of measures to save the tourism sector, and this is one of them. The Association says that losses can grow to hundreds of billions of rubles. If you now oblige the company to refund all the money for canceled tours, then this threatens them with bankruptcy. In ATOR, Germany is cited as an example - there tour operators and airlines have already received the right to suspend payments until January 1, 2022. (Listen to Vesti FM broadcast)

On the air, "Vesti.ru" was told about the forecasts of experts - whether the travel industry is on a hungry diet. The travel sector is now in poor condition. Most countries have closed borders. What forecasts do experts make? How to have money refunded for a failed tour?
Those tourists who are not ready to postpone the dates of their trip, sooner or later must receive the refund in full. If necessary, insurance funds will be used.
“In addition to personal liability funds, tour operators have a reserve fund, but they have not been used now. There is also insurance, and the size of the tour operator’s liability insurance is very large - 23 billion rubles,” said Dmitry Gorin, vice president of the Association of Russian Travel Operators. (More)