Medvedev instructed to check the tour operators

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instructed to conduct inspections of tour operators and exclude companies from the registry with insufficient financial support. It is reported by RIA "Novosti".

“There should not be a situation that has developed when all travel agencies act on the principle of the pyramid, they don’t answer for anything, then they say, excuse us, we have few clients. And when questions begin to insure risk, one who is engaged in such insurance is not able to answer at all. I think, they just need periodic checks for the future and excluding the tour operators of those who do not have a reliable financial coating,” said it. Medvedev.

According to the Prime Minister, a collapse occurred in the tourism services market. He instructed the government to take the situation under personal control. “This was not in history,” Medvedev said.

Earlier on Monday, the Chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to organize a procedural audit on the facts of illegal financial transactions conducted by tourist companies Neva and Labyrinth. This was reported by the press service of the department. Other travel agencies will also be checked, due to the suspension of whose activities were violated the rights of tourists.

On August 2, the travel agency "Labyrinth" announced the suspension of her activity. According to Interfax, "more than 40 thousand people have acquired its vouchers in the near future. To date, 16 thousand Labyrinth tourists remain abroad. According to Rosturism, 5.5 thousand people managed to withdraw in Saturday and Sunday. Earlier, several small tour operators announced about the bankroom.

On July 16, the Neva travel agency, which has existed since 1990, announced the suspension of activities in connection with the inability to fulfill its obligations to tourists and customers. The company will provide assistance and moral support for tourists who are outside Russia in the Neva vouchers, the message was noted.

The director of the Neva on Marketing Marina Bakleneva explained that this year, almost 25 percent, sales of vouchers fell. It began back in February. “The problem is also due to the fact that orders prohibiting some categories of citizens prohibiting traveling abroad. Therefore, it hit the sales, tourism,“ fell off ”the large segment of those people who have always been our customers,” said Bakleneva. - In connection with the general exacerbation of relations between Russia and Europe, some of our foreign partners began to react especially sharply to the slightest delays in cash receipts. "

On July 23, the chairman of the Committee on Tourism of the All -Russian Union of Insurers, Galina Gulyaeva, said that the amount of damage from the suspension of the work of the Neva travel agency will most likely exceed the amount of the insurance fund . The law in this case provides for a proportional payment. The head of the VSS committee noted that the insurance company is given time in order to determine how payments will be made - the full cost of the tour or in proportion to.