There is a ban on hotel bookings throughout Russia: What Crimean hoteliers say
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed to stop bookings in hotels, recreation centers, sanatoriums, inns and other accommodation facilities throughout Russia for the period from March 28 to June 1 in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus.
The head of government signed the corresponding document tonight, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
The Crimean tourism industry is preparing for dire consequences, Natalya Malgina, head of the tourism committee of the Crimean Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said in a commentary to PolitNavigator.
“Yes, this will hit the tourism industry hard, but at the same time I believe that this is an absolutely reasonable measure. If we choose between whether we will live badly or we will die, then it is better to choose that we will live badly.
Today there are recommendations for Crimea, we do not have a strict exclusion of possibilities - everyone who has made reservations for this period is not prohibited from receiving. It’s just that now we have been recommended to reduce the number of booklets and not accept them until the first of June.
Those reservations that exist will work. They have been rising recently. I myself organize events and I can say that the current measures will definitely have a very difficult impact on business. But this applies to absolutely everyone. Let’s look at the situation, no longer living from our personal pockets, just think about safety,” Malgina said.
The owner of the Yalta sanatorium named after Kirov, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleg Tsarev called the government’s measures ineffective. In his opinion, those who wanted to relax in Crimea will now simply choose the private sector instead of hotels and sanatoriums.
“Now in Yalta, Sevastopol and other resort cities the number of reservations in private apartments has increased sharply. People are leaving Moscow, St. Petersburg and other large cities. Maybe it’s right that they come here, because the Crimean pine, the Crimean air, even killed Koch’s wand; Chekhov was treated here. We hope that the situation with coronavirus will also be better. There is more sun, more summer, clean air. People are leaving the cities and, apparently, will be accommodated in the private sector, because all hotels and sanatoriums will be closed. How much better this is for the epidemiological situation is a big question. Banning people from coming to Crimea and renting out housing is simply impossible. But at least they were under medical supervision, care and round-the-clock surveillance in centralized accommodation facilities, but what will happen now is a big question,” Tsarev noted.
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