Photo by kyrandesa (Creative Commons 2.0) Russia is once again on everyone's lips. Unfortunately, not in the positive sense.
The events of recent times, however, show a fairly clear - the forms of political power and their own self-understanding international encounter in much of the political class and the corresponding coverage even when the mass of our citizens to resistance and incomprehension.
No wonder then that Russian entrepreneurs in the German market activities with suspicion and are subject to entirely different standards than the same or broader activities of Western European and American investors.
And it is really bad of course (publicist), when it comes to the Germans who love the holiday goes. In my article "Russian Bread for Öger" It was about the specific case of the participation of Russian investors (oligarch) to Lebedev Öger Tours GmbH I promised to write something more for the environment of the Russian tourism policy.
Certainly we may assume that all sounds somewhat contrived, but it's probably better to assume that mechanisms described in Russia seem so and you should set up according to its own economic activity.
With the emergence of a tourism market in the early nineties, a huge economic, financial and staff commitment especially of Turkish entrepreneurs in the Russian market was noted (and not only in tourism, also under construction and others). Turkey has created ideal conditions for entry of Russian citizens (visa waiver) and thus promoted its own tourism industry and other related industries in the consumer goods industry. Turkey became the No. 1 destination for the Russians.
The Russian tour operator market has been dominated by Turkish financed or turkey-based organizers. Only with time arose purely Russian tour operators corresponding size. Intourist, a former state monopoly, was after the break, as has been everywhere, punished only once for his past life of the customer. With the development under Putin, the Russian view of the organizers and also the responsible economic policy changed significantly in this circumstance.
This summer, these developments now reached a new level.
Event 1:
On 30.06.2008 is one of the great Russian tour operators "Detur" overnight (better over the weekend) one's business and is bankrupt. Trigger the bankruptcy of the bankrupt parent company of the Austro-Turkish "VASCO" is.
570 Russian tourists are at this time with a voucher from Detur in Turkey. Some of them are put under pressure by the hoteliers to pay for their room again, or thrown out of the hotel to be. Part of the tourists are not even in possession of return tickets. Through efforts of the Russian Consulate and the Russian community organizer manages to avoid all the worst and fly out Detur tourists from Turkey. Similarly, the German market also need experience yes.
Hundreds booked trips are not to be taken up, etc. We also know of corresponding events in Germany.
Damage: Probably 18 million rubles. Due to the insolvency loss insurance are generally covered in Russia but only up to 10 million rubles per claim.
Even in this context, the President of ATOR (Association of Tour Operators of Russia) to encourage customers to "purely Russian companies' favor.
ATOR represents the interests of large Russian tour operators.
Event 2:
On 20 21.07.2008 and the attempted Russian tour operators "akso-Intur" on behalf of the Government of Moscow (Moscow City has its own government, such as Berlin) to send 120 children to Turkey for vacation. It goes wrong, what can go wrong. The first plane, a Boeing charter airline "world" will be denied landing in Antalya. Reason remains unclear. Back to Moscow and transition into a TU-154. After landing at the second attempt, fortunately refuses the contract hotel "Hotel Monaco" take the children because:
- Akso Intur his bed-contingent have already covered
- Akso-Intur still have to pay $ 12,000 damage allegedly caused a previously housed in the hotel group of children at the pool.
The bus remains under police guard in the street to the hotel stand for several hours.
The children were then distributed to various hotels. In order to clarify the situation, turned on the Russian Consul General.
At 26.07. 2008 was the "problem" then arrived at the highest level. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin picked up the phone and spoke with Prime Minister Erdogan on the children's group. Erdogan promised to do all in its power to do to clarify the situation and sent a member of the government to clarify to Antalya.
Event 3:
On the same day, 7/26/08, "granted Prime Minister Putin, the Minister for Sport, Tourism and Youth Policy, Vitaly Mutko, the order" "to monitor the activities to strengthen the Russian tour operator," "with the aim of increasing the reliability of their work and fulfilling their obligations towards the tourists in full ".
(This phrase is taken literally, bureaucratic phrases omitted.)
Who intensive crossword puzzles solves, knows how to call something like that - "decree".
Since that day, rotate the Russian politicians and Tourism Association superiors.
At 04:08:08 is created in the implementation of the Putin-order in the ministry a "Department for the design of public policy and organization of tourism", which will obviously replace the former Rostourism.
The former chief Vladimir Rostourism Strshalkovskij (also a former KGB officer) had been sold to Nornickel to the private sector.
New Head of the Department is Nasina Nadezhda, former Deputy Head of Federal Agency for Tourism since January 2005. N. was born on 28.12.1955 and has a degree in fisheries. She worked her way up from the bottom in the trade, then the consumer upwards. In Rostourism she was particularly involved in the legislative changes to the fundamentals of tourism activity and related bankruptcy protection for tour operators.
Event 4:
Then there are the measures that the new government agency and the travel trade organizations for the fulfillment of Putin's order to come to mind:
- Increase the guaranteed amounts for the bankruptcy protection
There are two different viewpoints. ATOR, as a representative of the major operators will want a general and indiscriminate increase in the sum. The effect would be subject to further review the departure of small and medium-sized economically stable, but not sufficient for it financially equipped, tour operator (specialist, niche operators). These would be forced into the black economy.
Differentiation of the sum insured by sales, and other Paxen assessable risks, as we know it like us. This solution is also preferred by the insurance industry, which fears too many customers to lose large solution.
- Tour operators register
One of the first proposals Nasinas was that the conditions for admission to the tour operator register. In addition to the financial question is also an appropriate qualification to be demonstrated (not known).
Removal from the register should be possible by court order. Previously, it was virtually impossible to cancel a tour company from bankruptcy.
Working as a tour operator without registration in the registry should be prosecuted.
Here again the Minister has made an extra hump in front of his employer: Tour Operator for children can only be very reliable tour operators to a separate regulation and inspection.
By the end of September to the ministry and the tourism trade associations Putin enforcement report and submit the relevant laws and guidelines for decision. The legislative process could then take place late this year or early 2009.
From this perspective it is more logical than that the Russians, who have the appropriate means of relevant interests have or can develop and rely on the development of their business to a good cooperation with the Kremlin to engage accordingly. Since investments in making such a Turkish firm (Turkish and Öger is only once and then somehow German) and in a politically influential man, like Vural Öger, a lot of sense.
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