Deputy of the State Duma from the Sochi district continues to work on mitigation established by the CPS requirements of the tourism sector taken in response to the pandemic. The day before Konstantin Zatulin has sent an official letter to the Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Belousov and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of tourism, Dmitry Chernyshenko. He reported on the severity of the problem and made a proposal on the recognition of Russian resorts area of economic distress, the “Vesti Sochi”.
the letter States that many of the resorts of the Crimea, Stavropol, Krasnodar and Altai region are essentially single-industry towns, lost as a result of quarantine measures livelihood. It’s not only talking about hotels and spas, but also the enterprises of public catering, trade, entertainment, agriculture production, transportation and so on.
the Deputy noted that after the easing of restrictive measures on 20 may, the CPS did not give recommendations on the city’s beaches, private hotels and tour facilities. Two months quarantine of Sochi have lost about 600 thousand potential tourists. A large number of enterprises in the resort towns have lost support, including credit. According to Konstantin Zatulin, it happened because of a narrow interpretation of NACE codes.
according to the Deputy, is a typical example of Sochi, which last year took 6.5 million guests. Due to the cancellation of a number of events in April 2020 in the city budget has received 489 million rubles, which is more than half less than 2019. The damage amounted to more than 440 million rubles.
Text: State television and radio company “Vesti Sochi”
