Weekly “Arguments and facts” n ° 51. How much does it cost to celebrate the new year? 12/22/2021
They want to make Kamchatka tickets free, you will need to pay only for the ticket. Is this really true?
“ Kamchatka is far away, and subsidizing air transport is very important here. We have discussed additional perks so that people traveling to the Far East can get a big discount or even a free plane ticket when purchasing a product. tourist & # 39; & # 39 ;, & ndash; said the other day the head of the RF Ministry of Development of the Far East and the Arctic Alexei Chekunov .
“ Tickets are unlikely to be completely free. But if the state increases the subsidies, the theft will be cheap, & ndash; says Vice President of the Russian Travel Industry Union Yuri Barzykin . & ndash; Now up to 50% of the ticket is subsidized. For 2022, 1.2 billion & timid; to rub. for charters. Previously they were flying abroad, now & ndash; inside the country, including the Far East. & nbsp;
But increasing the number of tourists cannot solve the problem. Where are all these tourists going to live, eat? We have to develop new routes for them, because the ecosystem is too vulnerable to them. It seems they wanted to increase the flow to the Valley of Geysers, but realized that in a few years the valley would stay at this rate, and there would be no more geysers. “
