Tourist business is concerned about the coming changes. In the new law "On tourism", they want to register the features of the financial responsibility of the tour operator. If briefly: For business, this is an additional financial load (in the form of insurance, bank guarantees or participation in specialfound), but it is believed that the consumer will be protected more, onliner.by.
Representatives of the turbines agree that changes are needed, but they believe that the current bill is raw and does not correspond to the market situation. They were diagnosed on this topic today with government agencies and deputies.
Briefly prehistory. The new law began to think in 2018, when the scandal was hit with Natalie Tours. About 400 Belarusians bought tours, but could not go on a journey. Then the invention of the financial airbag was announced.
The head of the Republican Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shvets identified the main pain points in the new law. The first is the liability insurance of tour operators. Business believes that this item is not worked out, it is incomprehensible to what the pros and cons. The same applies to bank guarantees.
Questions There are both the responsibility of tour operators (in what cases will they use? Who and how will they manage money?). Another problem was formulated as "lack of stimulating national turbines." While the turbines remained one on one with his problems.
Chairman of the Council of the Republican Union of Travel Organizations Oksana Bichun stated that the last editorial office of the law with the turbines did not agree, and the new approaches "do not meet the requirements of the market and are divorced from real economic conditions."
In addition, business wants to delimit the responsibility of the tour operator and travel agents (who directly sells tours).
One of the main passages of the turbines - before entering new norms, you need to understand how they will work, which financial load will be on the turbines and customers.
- The law, of course, needs to be improved. But now tourism is almost on mortals. The law is accepted in a difficult period, it can be said that it is a crossing, on which the horses do not change, "said Galina Puntaeva, director of the Viapol travel agency.
The Chief Legal Counsel of the Department of Tourism of the Maxport Alexander Krchetov answered this: the conceptually draft law was prepared, particularly discussed. According to him, trips can rise in price, but it will be almost imperceptibly.
- The rise in prices for tours will occur, but it will be insignificant: within $ 1-2.
Now the bill is preparing for consideration in the Chamber of Representatives. Deputy Andrei Savini called on to work on specific wording that the turbines does not suit and offer its own options.
- As far as I understand, the law is quite worked out, but the problem is in financial guarantees. Just so the law will not pass until we see a balance of positions.