{"id":448260,"date":"2020-05-12T19:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T19:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/?p=448260"},"modified":"2020-05-15T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T12:48:14","slug":"warnings-of-travel-companies-from-moldova-a-moratorium-required-and-protests-to-be-organised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/warnings-of-travel-companies-from-moldova-a-moratorium-required-and-protests-to-be-organised\/","title":{"rendered":"Warnings of travel companies from Moldova – a moratorium required and protests to be organised"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The tourism industry<\/strong> in Moldova is heavily affected by the pandemic crisis. Beside the fact that the sales decline has broken all records, more and more tourists demand trips\u00a0cancelling and refund of advance payments.<\/p>\n

Taking into consideration the current situation, business entities operating in the tourism sector claimed they can’t afford paying\u00a0 tourists the money for contracts signed before mid-March back. They called for a moratorium to be imposed and announced<\/a> a demonstration to be organised on the first day after the state of emergency is lifted in the Republic of Moldova – May 15.<\/p>\n

Through the #SOStourismMoldova<\/strong> event, tourism companies together with the National Association of Travel Agencies aim to ask the Government, the Parliament and the President of the country to get involved in finding ways of solving the tourism sector problems.<\/p>\n

“We ask the authorities to introduce a moratorium for a period of 540 days for the service contracts signed until March 17 or\u00a0an emergency bill to be voted by the Parliament, which would allow us to make the refunds within an extended period of up to 540 days,”<\/em> is specified in the request.<\/p>\n

Travel agents and tour operators organising international trips informed that the collected through the signed contracts money have been already transferred to various service providers abroad. Without a moratorium, there are high chances of tourism businesses’ insolvency and, as a consequence, a whole industry crash is possible.<\/p>\n

“We do not ask for state money. We demand a moratorium. We want to return the tourists’ money and not to become insolvent. We want to recover and continue working at home.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As an answer, Prime Minister\u00a0Ion Chicu<\/strong> announced the tourism companies about the Government’s intention to support their lending capacity by offering state guarantees in the amount of up to 50% of the value of the necessary pledge and interest subsidies<\/span>. “In the coming days, the Executive will examine a set of measures in this regard,”<\/em>\u00a0it is said in a press release<\/a> of the Government.<\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0Stela Di<\/a>| Pixabay<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>The tourism industry in Moldova is heavily affected by the pandemic crisis. Beside the fact that the sales decline has broken all records, more and more tourists demand trips\u00a0cancelling and refund of advance payments. Taking into consideration the current situation, business entities operating in the tourism sector claimed they can’t afford paying\u00a0 tourists the money […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":448261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[707,79,381,35,27,618,608,331,63],"class_list":["post-448260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-tourism-en","tag-sostourismmoldova","tag-business","tag-crisis","tag-important","tag-moldova","tag-moratorium","tag-pandemic","tag-protest","tag-tourism"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The tourism industry<\/strong> in Moldova is heavily affected by the pandemic crisis. Beside the fact that the sales decline has broken all records, more and more tourists demand trips\u00a0cancelling and refund of advance payments.<\/p>\n

Taking into consideration the current situation, business entities operating in the tourism sector claimed they can’t afford paying\u00a0 tourists the money for contracts signed before mid-March back. They called for a moratorium to be imposed and announced<\/a> a demonstration to be organised on the first day after the state of emergency is lifted in the Republic of Moldova – May 15.<\/p>\n

Through the #SOStourismMoldova<\/strong> event, tourism companies together with the National Association of Travel Agencies aim to ask the Government, the Parliament and the President of the country to get involved in finding ways of solving the tourism sector problems.<\/p>\n

“We ask the authorities to introduce a moratorium for a period of 540 days for the service contracts signed until March 17 or\u00a0an emergency bill to be voted by the Parliament, which would allow us to make the refunds within an extended period of up to 540 days,”<\/em> is specified in the request.<\/p>\n

Travel agents and tour operators organising international trips informed that the collected through the signed contracts money have been already transferred to various service providers abroad. Without a moratorium, there are high chances of tourism businesses’ insolvency and, as a consequence, a whole industry crash is possible.<\/p>\n

“We do not ask for state money. We demand a moratorium. We want to return the tourists’ money and not to become insolvent. We want to recover and continue working at home.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As an answer, Prime Minister\u00a0Ion Chicu<\/strong> announced the tourism companies about the Government’s intention to support their lending capacity by offering state guarantees in the amount of up to 50% of the value of the necessary pledge and interest subsidies<\/span>. “In the coming days, the Executive will examine a set of measures in this regard,”<\/em>\u00a0it is said in a press release<\/a> of the Government.<\/p>\n

Photo:\u00a0Stela Di<\/a>| Pixabay<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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