Rosturizm opposed the extension of the experiment with the resort fee
Rostourism does not support the extension of the experiment to levy a resort fee due to the difficult epidemiological situation and difficulties with its administration, but the State Duma and the Ministry of Economic Development support the continuation of this practice.
The continuation of the experiment on collecting a resort fee from tourists, now operating in three regions, was discussed at an online meeting organized by the Committee on Physical Culture, Sports, Tourism and Youth Affairs of the State Duma. It was attended by the Ministers of Tourism of the interested regions, Rostourism and the Ministry of Economic Development, State Duma deputies.
The head of the Committee Boris Paikin recalled that the experiment on the resort fee will end on December 31, 2022.
The funds of tourists are directed to the development of resorts - the arrangement of cities, cleaning beaches, etc. The fee rate is determined by the region, but it cannot exceed 100 rubles per person per day.
Natalia Smirnova, head of the legal department of Rosturizm, said: Taking into account the current situation in the sanitary-aid situation, Rosturizm does not support the idea of expanding the experiment and extending it. We believe that it is necessary to wait for the results and evaluate the results of the experiment, and either expand it to the whole country or abandon it.”
Paikin stressed that the epidemiological situation should improve in the next six months, and the experiment on the resort fee will be completed in a year and a half, in 2022.
Deputy Minister Elena Lysenkova is sure that you need to look not only at the collection of funds, but also at the transparency of their use.
Acting Minister of Tourism and Health Resorts of Stavropol Kirill Reut said that from 2018 to 2020, the region collected about a billion rubles and sent them to the improvement of resorts. Head of the Department for the Development of Tourism and Resort Activities of the Altai Territory Yevgeny Deshevykh said that during the period of the experiment 100 million rubles were collected, the fee is charged only at the resort of Belokurikha.
Krasnodar Krai collected for the period of the experiment almost 400 million rubles, which went to the objects of improvement.
According to Paikin, more than 10 regions of the Russian Federation want to introduce a resort fee, as they understand that these funds can go to the improvement and well-being of their regions.
Lysenkova stressed that Rostourism does not mind organizing financing of local budgets to support the resort infrastructure, but proposes to work out the economy of the mechanism and remove the collection of cash from tourists.
Minister of Tourism of the Kaliningrad region Andrey Yermak said that the resort fee in the region want to enter from January 1, 2022.
Source: tourism.interfax