It became known how much money brought the resort fee
The resort fee for four months was able to add 85 million rubles to the treasury of Stavropol. Such information for the period from may to August shared in the regional government, and added that the resorts Kavminvod this summer visited more than 710 thousand people.
“The collected funds should be embodied in resort infrastructure facilities,” said Governor Vladimir Vladimirov. In the region introduced a maximum rate of 50 rubles per person.
Also known indicators in the Altai region, where collect tax from vacationers in Belokurikha (30 rubles). In August, the budget received 3 million rubles for this income, and the total amount since the beginning of May reached 10.6 million rubles.
The money is going to be spent on the improvement of the resort. Local authorities expect to collect about 50 million rubles in the first year of the experiment.
In the Krasnodar region, the results have not yet been summed up. In these parts made the smallest rate of collection – 10 rubles per person – and introduced it later, from July 16.
According to preliminary estimates of market participants, now it was possible to collect about 60-70 million rubles. According to S. Romashkin, general director of the tour operator Dolphin, this is very little money for “the region in which there is money and the largest number of rooms is concentrated.”
Talk about the possibility of introducing a tourist fee in other regions of Russia continues. These plans were discussed in St. Petersburg, Ryazan, the cities of the Golden Ring and Kazan. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said earlier that “the iconic tourist cities should be absolutely accessible to citizens of the Russian Federation.” It proposes to exempt Russians from paying the tourist fee in case of its introduction. Among tourism professionals, this position is supported.