More than half of Russians do not want to pay the resort fee

The sociological survey involved 1,500 respondents in 104 urban and rural settlements.

 

51% of Russians negatively assess the resort fee, this is still the majority, although since 2017 their number has decreased (68% against).

 

Some of the reasons for the negative attitude to the holiday tax are: “And so expensive for people is vacation”, “We will soon pay for air”, “We should not pay to rest at home”, “It will be someone’s feeder. Corruption will increase, etc.

 

More than half of the survey participants believe that the amount of collection from 30 to 50 rubles per day per person for two weeks of travel is too serious for the budget of their family.

 

There are respondents who accepted the innovation well, their number increased from 18 to 28 percent. People hope that the funds raised will be used for the development of resorts, their improvement. The remaining 20% had difficulty answering.

 

Surprisingly, 53% of all respondents have heard about the resort fee for the first time. According to experts, this proportion of respondents consists of those who can not afford a vacation even in domestic resorts, and the topic of additional collection is not interested in them.

 

In regions where the new tax was introduced in 2018 as an experiment, there are no difficulties with its collection.