“Subsidies partially compensate for the losses incurred by tour operators and, I hope, help to maintain jobs,” TASS quoted Reshetnikova as saying.
He noted that subsidies will help support the liquidity of tour operators.
According to him, many tour operators were forced to take tourists out of the closing countries at their own expense.
Earlier, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin approved the rules for the provision of subsidies to tour operators for cost recovery due to coronavirus.