Residents of Moldova and Transnistria are afraid to go to Ukrainian recreation centers
Chisinau - Tiraspol, June 24 (Navigator, Petr Alekseev) - Ukrainian resorts, which have always been popular among residents of Moldova and Transnistria, are not in demand this year. Now, at the height of the holiday season, few people decide to go on vacation to a neighboring country due to the unstable situation.
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In cities on both banks of the Dniester in June, as usual, advertisements appeared inviting people to go on vacation on comfortable buses and minivans to Koblevo, Zatoka, Gribovka, Sergeevka and other seaside villages on the Ukrainian coast. Assistance in accommodation at recreation centers is also offered. However, judging by the fact that phone numbers are rarely stolen, there are few people willing to go to familiar resorts.
Due to the lack of passengers, Chisinau bus stations previously canceled many seasonal bus routes to Ukrainian resorts, and Transnistria launched the seasonal bus route Bendery - Yalta a month late.
Many people say that two feelings are fighting in them - the desire to relax on the Black Sea coast cheaply (due to the depreciation of the hryvnia), relatively close to home, and the fear of being robbed or attacked by bandits.
In Tiraspol, for example, a story is passed from mouth to mouth about how masked representatives of the Right Sector broke into the house of people who were recently vacationing in the Odessa region and gave them two hours to study the Ukrainian anthem. This kind of information often appears on social networks.
In the reservation department of one of the fashionable hotel complexes in Zatoka, which the Navigator correspondent contacted, they reported that “everything is calm in the Odessa region and in Odessa, there have been no incidents.” However, they found it difficult to answer the question about which passport is easier for a tourist to cross the Ukrainian border with.
“There are no vacationers from Moldova yet, so there is no one to ask,” noted a hotel employee.
A representative of one of the local tour operator companies said that it was unsafe to go to Crimea and Odessa and advised them to choose another direction.
“We currently do not send tourists to Ukraine. Anything can happen along the way. There was a case when our bus, which reached the border, was turned back,” the travel agency reported.
According to the information portal "Mir24", last year, 20 thousand residents of Moldova bought vouchers to Ukrainian recreation centers, and those who went to resort villages on their own were two and a half times more. In the same year, citizens of the Republic of Moldova more often choose European destinations - Bulgaria, Greece, Romania.
“Visa-free regime (for citizens of the Republic of Moldova with biometric passports traveling to EU countries - approx. red.) simplified trips to resorts in Bulgaria and Romania. These destinations, according to travel agencies, are in great demand among those who like to bask in the overseas sun,” the portal writes.
Tour operators hope that demand for Ukrainian resorts will increase by mid-summer, but they are already alarmed by the lack of reservations for July and August, even though the level of service there has improved and prices are more attractive than ever, the publication notes.
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