Government approves program to support domestic tourism for children
The Cabinet website reports: The Russian government has approved the allocation of funds for the implementation of a program to support affordable domestic tourist trips for children.
Rostourism, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Education until May 19 must submit to the government a draft act on approving the rules for granting subsidies to the National Payment Card System to implement a program to support affordable domestic tourist trips in the organization of children's recreation and recovery through reimbursement of part of the cost of paid tourist services.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on April 21, during a message to the Federal Assembly, proposed to reimburse in 2021 half the cost of vouchers to children's camps.
Reimbursement under the cashback program for children's camps will be available to parents of 357 thousand children, this allocated 5 billion rubles. Since the launch of the program, parents will be able to purchase vouchers to children's camps, and they will automatically return 50% of the cost of the purchased ticket to the Mir card - a maximum of five days.
Source: ria