Crimea returned to the schedule – Newspaper Kommersant No. 149 (7350) of 17.08.
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The movement of trains in the Crimea has been restored after an emergency with damage to the tracks near Dzhankoy. On the afternoon and evening of August 16, the delivery of passengers from the peninsula proceeded according to the time schedule – by buses to the Vladislavovka station and then by trains. According to market participants, the tourist flow to Crimea due to sabotage may fall by 5-30%, given that the vast majority of tourists arrive on the peninsula by road. Nevertheless, at the end of the year, the demand of travelers, which has been falling since spring against the backdrop of the closure of air traffic, will seriously decrease.
Railway communication in Crimea, disrupted on Tuesday morning as a result of track damage near Dzhankoy, by the evening it was restored. According to the Ministry of Defense, the cause of the emergency is sabotage.
TK “Grand Service Express” (GSE, transportation operator in communication with the Crimea) in the morning informedthat the movement of trains in the area of Azovskaya station was suspended, seven trains were delayed (six – to the Crimea, one – from the Crimea). These include trains 92 (Moscow—Sevastopol), 28 (Moscow—Simferopol), 180 (St. Petersburg-Evpatoria), 183 (Murmansk—Sevastopol) and 374 (Simferopol-Smolensk).
As Kommersant was told in the GSE, the number of passengers in the delayed trains is 3422.
During the day, train traffic was organized according to a temporary scheme – from Vladislavovka station, where passengers could get on their own or get from the departure station or Simferopol by bus. In total, 78 buses were involved in transportation. The first train left Vladislavovka according to this scheme at 17:08 374 (Simferopol-Smolensk) with a delay, according to the GSE, less than three hours.
According to the same scheme, the dispatch of trains was organized 598 and 28 (Simferopol—Moscow) and 180 (Evpatoria-St. Petersburg), whose passengers were taken from Evpatoria to Dzhankoy by train and left Dzhankoy. train passengers 92 (Sevastopol-Moscow) will also be delivered by electric train to Simferopol, from where they will leave for Moscow.
Around noon Moscow time, the head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, announced that the damaged canvas had been restored; Kommersant’s interlocutor, who was familiar with the situation, confirmed this. According to the GSE report, the train 396 (Simferopol-Astrakhan) departs according to the schedule on August 16 at 20:30 from Simferopol station. Trains will also depart from planned departure stations 194 and 198 (Simferopol—Moscow), 184 (Sevastopol—Murmansk) and 162 (Feodosia-Moscow). According to the GSE, then the trains will pass according to the route.
By opinion representatives of the tourism industry, a global decline in tourist flow to Crimea in connection with the incident should not be expected.
According to the vice-president of ATOR and the general director of the tour operator “Dolphin” Sergey Romashkin, 90-95% of tourists vacationing in the Crimea come there by car. In his opinion, the reduction in demand for travel to Crimea due to the state of emergency will not exceed 5-10%. Mr. Romashkin explains that the tourists were afraid fire at the airport in Novofedorovka, but Dzhankoy is located at a distance from the resorts.
The drop in the tourist flow to Crimea has been recorded since spring against the backdrop of limited air traffic and fears of travelers: in spring, demand was 30% of the level of last year, in summer it reached 50–60%.
Now, according to Sergei Romashkin, demand is about 40% of last year. But his forecast for the year remains unchanged: the region will lose about half of the tourists. It is already the end of the season, Mr. Romashkin clarifies, and 90% of the tourists who planned a trip to the Crimea have already gone or are on vacation.
The executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia, Maya Lomidze, points out that so far the reaction of tourists to the events in Crimea is rather restrained: current bookings have decreased, but the travel industry does not see cancellations and mass departures from resorts. The interlocutor of “Kommersant” in the tourism market explains that traditionally such a negative information background leads to a decrease in sales by 20-30%. The reaction of tourists can be monitored over the next days, but in the case of Crimea, it may be less pronounced than usual: the tourist flow to the region has already been greatly reduced, he says.
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