In Crimea, scammers hung three stars on a dirty hotel with peeling walls
Under the guise of three-star hotels, tourists in Crimea are sold places that are actually in dirty sheds with stains on the mattresses.
Thus, the Minister of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic Vadim Volchenko published on his blog a photograph of one of these “hotels”, which was awarded three-star status, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There are facts and it’s a shame, but what’s more dismantling is anger: how did our pseudo-experts and would-be classifiers assign 3 stars to these objects?! How much does it cost to go blind like that? Hotel owners are also being framed, although they are also at fault - an affordable hotel should also be clean and comfortable. Fraudster classifiers will face administrative responsibility, and then an assessment by law enforcement officers, but the most unpleasant thing is the negative emotions of our guests and the image losses of the entire region,” Volchenko wrote.
According to political scientist Ivan Mezyukho, the owners of such hotels, first of all, do a disservice to themselves, dooming their business to bankruptcy.
“Some accommodation facilities in Crimea look like a scam for tourists, when barns are rented out at the price of a hotel or mini-hotel. I don't know if it's worth addressing questions to classifiers. It seems to me that, first of all, these are questions for the owners of such objects, because when we talk about the image of Crimea, it is because of such incidents when a person arrives at what seems like a decent hotel, but ends up in a barn, and sometimes negative feelings develop the image of our peninsula as a tourist region,” the expert noted.
“But still, in my opinion, significant changes have occurred over these eight years. For several years in a row I have seen similar sheds standing empty while Crimea breaks new records for the number of tourists. Still, finally, people who come here with money began to punish such owners with rubles,” Mezyukho said.
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