For the development of domestic tourism, the Russian government will provide financial support to Russian tour operators. Within four years, they plan to allocate 1 billion rubles. in year.

This is stipulated in the draft Ministry of Culture draft government decree on subsidizing domestic tourism, which is now in agreement with the Ministry of Finance and will enter into force as early as next year. In the Ministry of Economic Development the project has already been agreed upon. According to the document, support for the total amount of 5 billion rubles. will be provided from 2018 to 2022. , they write "Izvestia".

Subsidizing tour operators will lead to lower prices for vouchers inside the country, said in Rosturizm. And it will affect budgetary tours.

Since "it is considered that the subsidies are designed for 500 thousand people, 2 thousand rubles each," and this year the budget package tour of the Russian Federation "cost 25-35 thousand rubles for two, including the flight," the cost reduction will be 10%, explained adviser to the head of Rosturizm Dmitry Gorin. According to him, state subsidies will help expand the geography of travel in our country.

This is a good start to attract tourists to unpopular routes, said Vice President of the Russian Union of Travel Industry Yuri Barzykin. And "while the size of subsidies is not so large, it is optimal to finance trips to unpopular places in order to attract tourists at a low price, for example - to the Far East, to Kamchatka," he suggested.. And completely the system will work, when to each billion from the federal budget will add some billions from business.

The idea of ??subsidizing tourist routes was also supported by the Ministry of North Caucasus Affairs. But at the same time noted that this should affect directions with significant tourist potential, in particular - with a large number of well-preserved objects of cultural heritage and natural monuments.

In the opinion of Sergei Korneev, the deputy head of Rosturism, Russia has "colossal tourist opportunities". A draft resolution of the Ministry of Culture on subsidizing domestic tourism shows that "the state seriously and permanently supports this trend".

Such state stimulation of the attitude of tour operators to the reduction of prices for permits, which, in its. turn attract tourists, said the expert. And when there is demand, there will be investors who will invest in the industry, developing it, which will further increase the flow of tourists, "he explained..