Campaign against BOOKIng.Som: Reaction

Hotels, businessmen, politicians and users of Runet believe that the desire to ban BOOKIng. SOM plays into the hands of a narrow circle of interested parties, as well as pulls the market rental in the “gray” zone.

On Monday, Rosturism received a letter from the Ministry of Culture with the order "Consider the proposal to ban Booking.com in the Russian Federation." This was reported to the Russian media in the press service of Rosturism. Rostourism should present its position on this issue until June 4, 2018.

A representative of Rosturism said that the opinion of “relevant professional public associations regarding the specified proposal is required, in connection with which the corresponding request will be sent to them in the operational mode”.

In response to anti -Russian sanctions, the head of the tour operator of his TS, Sergei Voitovich, previously spoke with the initiative to limit the work of the hotel reservation service in Russia. He sent his open letter to the Ministry of Culture in April 2018.

He explained that he proposes to limit the work of BOOKIng.Som only in relation to Russian hotels and only for customers who are located in Russia. Russian tourists will be able to book through the service of hotels in other countries, and foreigners in Russia.

According to Voitovich, BOOKING. SOM is actually engaged in Russia in Russia, not being a tour operator and without paying contributions. He estimated the share of the service in the reservation market for rooms in Russian hotels of 60-70%.

Runet already managed to respond to the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, and it is unlikely that this reaction is approving.

Journalist "Echo of Moscow" Alexander Plyushchev sees this in the desire of the authorities BOOKING.Som to promote some of his services:

“Very funny news about the proposal to limit the activities of BOOKING. SOM in Russia. At first it looks frightening, but you need to get a few paragraphs down and the essence of the initiative is revealed there. It consists in somehow cunningly to dodge and ban Booking for Russian consumers who book through it ... Russian hotels. That is, it would be nice if Booking brought foreigners from all over the world to our hotels, but we will deal with our serfs ourselves. The truth is immediately a touching reservation that many hotels on their own, while without Booking, cannot independently fill out the rooms all year round. That's how we would eat a fish, and ride a tram.
The tourism industry knows what to ask. To limit and prohibit - we love and know how to. Not to create your own services that would be better, more convenient, more interesting and familiar, and with a flamethrower to burn everything that prevents these nits to download money from us. ”

“The Buckingcom allows the Russians to save money, to book hotels directly, and not through intermediaries,” the head of the Aide IT department and the co -chair of the Demes Robor Igor Drandin are indignant . - It is important to understand that not only our tourists planning their vacations abroad will suffer, this ban will hit business, which will be forced to increase the costs of business trips. Blocking BOOKING.SOM is lobbying for tour operators, in particular the company "Your TS". I propose to declare a boycott to these bastards. I urge all my readers to never use their services. Warn your friends and acquaintances that “your vehicle” wants evil to our country! There will be no Ministry of Culture in the new beautiful Russia. This hostile structure is dangerous and should be expanded. Culture does not need state censorship. ”

True, Drandin immediately stipulates: “Many people write that there are a lot of sites for search and booking, yes, this is so. Therefore, it is important to understand that Bucking is just a pretext. If they decide to block, then Tophotels and Trivago and Hotels and everything else will be closed in the Russian Federation. ”

“Well, and who do you want to punish, our intellectual and non-general you are? - It is ironic by the famous Nizhny Novgorod blogger and specialist in the field of IT Ilya Vaitsman. - No, seriously: IQ should be below zero to come up with this. Because even full idiots in 2018 know that:

• The Russians are not a noticeable part of Booking.com users, so it will be a self -support in the best possible way.

• It is time to realize that nothing can be blocked on the Internet. Who needs it - he will use it. But where is there ...

• The only victims will be - Russian hotels that will acquire hemorrhoids from scratch.

...., by all, from the office, which is headed by its evilness and mental deficiency (even against the background of the “government” mournful by the mind) so -called Ski Medinsky does not have to expect anything smarter. ”

The ex-General manager of the Yekaterinburg “Fours” “Onegin” and “Voznesensky”, and now-the manager of the Emerald hotel Sergey Derenddyaev regrets that the authorities decided to block the usual and convenient resource for the hotel and considers this to be an attempt by unfair competition: “In 2004, I was young and beginner, still beginners, still, still. Inexperienced hotel. At that time, BOOKIng.Som was also a young and not very convenient site, in any case in Russia. They did not even have an interface in Russian, if the memory does not fail me. And the hotels were connected mainly Moscow, in the regions-only one or two. Yes, we did not need a buging - all the reservations were carried out by phone.

Since then everything has changed.

Bucking has become more convenient for hoteliers and users, who are becoming more and more every day. We can say that he revolutionized the hotel business. Today, the share of Bucking in booking at the Emerald Hotel reaches 30%, and many hotels generally build a sales strategy based on this site. And this is natural - he is a leader.

You can prohibit everything. But I want to ask-and you, brothers-enactors, can you compete differently? Create advanced products? Do things convenient for people?

By the way, with the company, which is headed by the initiator of this bacchanalia, we also cooperate. Over the past 30 days (I specifically looked) there were 0 (zero) reservations against 160 from Bucking.

Well, well.

Good morning!

What else should we prohibit? "

Politician Dmitry Gudkov also sees this in an unscrupulous coroncelon struggle, which, at the same time, shows “all the stupidity of power, all its fossil and dinosaurism”:

“In the evening, I think about the threat of blocking Buking. Of course, they will not be blocked, there will be not enough forbidden, but an instruction from the Ministry of Culture “Consider the possibility” is a logical step after the telegram. He blocks “type according to the law”, and the buging is already by lawlessness, from which the law is no different.
Like the state is no different from a non-member entrepreneur who is not able to create a working analogue of Bucking in a few years, but close to Medinsky ear.
The story with Buking again shows all the stupidity of power, all its fossil and dinosaurism. To ban the Russians not just go to the site, but look for hotels in Russia on it. That is, people are not just angry, they are also stupid and do not understand that this is impossible.
They would like to support the domestic manufacturer - dark options. They would have saved the Island website recently flying into the pipe. They would develop tourism and pay Buking for the promotion of Russia. There are many ways to throw money down the wind, but the most evil and dumb.
Although this is again the harm that does not affect the main electorate: those who do not go further than the beer, for whom the Internet is “classmates” with “feed.ru” (at best), and Putin is therefore the president.
In general, everything is as usual with us. And our life improves not thanks to the state, but contrary to. All convenient services of recent years, from taxi to online banks, from the search for hotels to communication-all of them were created besides the state and often with its opposition. As you know, when a long dinosaur has already eaten a tail, my head has not yet suspected anything. ”

The activities of the hotel reservation service BOOKING. SOM in Russia need to be more actively adjusted, but not banned, the Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST) believes .

“The service actually provides information services. This activity of him must be adjusted tougher, but it is not necessary to ban it, as this will deprive consumers of the right to choose. In particular, it is necessary to force the service to register in Russia and pay taxes as a Russian enterprise, which is not happening now, ”said Irina Tyurina spokesman Irina Tyurina.

The Vice President of the Russian Federation Olga Sanaeva said that in Russia the service BOOKIng.Som is unlikely to be blocked. She said that she did not know anything about the instruction of the Ministry of Culture, while noting that business representatives have questions for BOOKIng.Som.

“I would definitely like BOOKIng.Som to work in the same field as tour operators, at least in legal, legal,” Sanaeva emphasized.

She added that the service is most likely not blocked, since it is convenient for Russian consumers.

The Ministry of Culture, meanwhile, has already disowned the plans to block Booking. Olga Yarilova, director of the Department of Tourism and Regional Policy of the Ministry of Culture, said that the agency cannot regulate the service and oppose the “similar formulation of the issue”.

She clarified that the Ministry of Culture really sent to Rosturism the appeal of the head of the tour operator “His TS” Sergei Voitovich with a request to prepare an answer to him. Yarilova called such a technical procedure and clarified that nothing threatens the work of the Booking.com service in Russia.

“This is an absolutely standard procedure that is technical in nature,” she said .

Claims to BOOKIng.Som at one time put forward Ukrainian politicians. In their opinion, the service “traded stolen”, making transactions and offering real estate in the Crimea, thereby ignoring the policy of imposing sanctions regarding “territory with indefinite status”. In December 2016, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Popular Front Georgy Logvinsky reported that criminal proceedings were supposedly opened against Booking.Som, but at what stage it is now, it is unknown.

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