Forecasts for the resumption of the tourist flow from Russia will only be possible after the opening of borders and restrictions on movement within a number of countries.
As transfers TASS, the world community has informed the official representative the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova.
Participating in the online conference of the Moscow diplomatic club, Zakharova said, what to do now predictions “wrong and dangerous”, it is necessary to wait for the opening of borders between countries and the development of safe sanitary rules of air transportation.
According to the diplomat, the main factor influencing the opening of borders, is the epidemiological situation in a particular state.
She said that the foreign Ministry together with representatives of the local tourism industry may 29 is starting to have the Russians support in obtaining compensation from foreign airlines for not flying.
Zakharov mentioned that among Russian air carriers developed a system of offsets when the person can by tickets for one company to export fly another flight. Such practices, yet in regard of foreign airlines.
the representative of the foreign Ministry said that a number of countries, despite the difficult situation due to the pandemic, extend a stranded tourist visa and doing this for free, but there are countries where “visa extension costs a lot of money, and people are deprived of these means.”
Zakharov said that many of the people remaining abroad because of the epidemiologic limitations, are out of work and experiencing other difficulties.
She concluded that the international community in the context of pandemic COVID-19 faced challenges that were not experienced until now — stop transport system, closure of borders, internal restrictions, freezing of a number of agreements.
the Diplomat believes that “the world should perform and evaluate” what happened, to make life more secureNoah in the future.
