Tourists who canceled their tours after the start of settling the situation with PMC Wagner are reconsidering their decisions – Kommersant

Tourists who had previously written applications for the cancellation of tours began to contact the tour operator with a request to restore them. This was reported by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) with reference to tour operators. Tourists began to make such requests after reports of the beginning of the settlement of the crisis around the founder of Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, explains ATOR.

“After reports on TV about the beginning of the crisis settlement, tourists who had previously written applications for cancellation of tours rushed to call travel agents with a request to “revoke” them and questions “is it possible to restore the ticket”,”— informs association. Tour operators note that today, June 24, there were few applications for cancellation, now “these few” are reconsidering their decision.

Moscow offices of tour operators will be in touch on Monday, noted in ATOR, despite the declared day off.

By statement Russian Union of Tourism Industry, most tourists expected that their planned vacation would take place. At the same time, bus tours to the south of Russia started cancel.

On June 23, Mr. Prigozhin accused the Ministry of Defense of hitting his company’s positions and said that 25,000 people were going to “deal with it.” FSB excited case of incitement to armed rebellion. President Vladimir Putin called the events associated with PMCs a rebellion and betrayal. Today the founder of PMC ordered stop march.

Follow the situation with Prigogine in online broadcasts “b”.

Maria Fedotova