“Children’s rest is more legally protected”: an expert on children’s travels and popular routes

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- Let's divide tourism into its types, then it will be clear whether it has increased or not, because it is not always a single whole.

There is active children's tourism - these are various trips - short or long.

There is sightseeing tourism, when children travel by bus, train.

Therefore, if we are talking specifically about children's tourism, which does not include children's camps and other trips, then in general its popularity is growing, including because there are support measures from the state.

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- We continue to partially subsidize trips to children's camps, this has had a great impact on trips.

But this is not tourism, namely children's recreation.

As for tourism, measures have appeared to support the subsidization of school trips, including with the help of social certificates (free travel program for schoolchildren. -

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A very good program, according to which parents immediately purchase trips.

This has a positive effect on the number of children who travel, and in general, we see that parents have begun to pay attention to travel: the active employment of children has a positive effect on knowledge, socialization, and removes enthusiasm for virtuality.

And in general, probably, all factors together affect the fact that children began to travel much more than last year.

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- The program was very popular, in connection with which the Federal Tourism Agency completed it ahead of schedule.

At the beginning of June, only 550,000 vouchers were purchased, by June 15, the numbers had increased even more, we still don’t see exact data, they haven’t been published, this is exactly if we talk about children’s camps.

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- If we are talking about children's camps, we understand that due to the fact that there are problems with logistics, and problems with parents' anxiety about visiting the Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory, this year we are seeing a shift in locations for children's recreation closer to their own cities.

First of all, those who are from Moscow choose the Moscow region as a vacation, those who are from St. Petersburg choose the Leningrad region.

In general, the demand for recreation for children in the middle lane has increased.

If we are talking about sightseeing tourism, naturally, first of all, the demand has increased for those areas where there is an interesting program.

That is, these are the cities of the Golden Ring, this is the Pskov region, and the Novgorod region, and those cities where there are excursion programs, interesting routes.

Therefore, of course, these are, first of all, points of historical attraction.

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- If we are talking about parents and organizers, then we absolutely clearly note the increased legal literacy.

And the parents began to understand much better, and, of course, the organizers themselves.

Quite a lot of problems arise due to the fact that a category of parents whose children have not traveled before came to children's camps, a subjective idea arises, some kind of excessive demands, somewhere just scandalous.

The organizers are forced to improve their legal literacy and legal skills.

Somewhere the organizers are forced to take a more careful approach to the documents and everything else.

As for inspections, this has always existed and exists, children's rest does not fall under any moratoriums and is always checked.

Therefore, in general, globally, approaches to organizing children's recreation have not changed.

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— There are legal, financial and mental differences.

A trip abroad is quite expensive, and we understand that when traveling abroad, parents have only those guarantees that the tour operator gives.

If a parent sends a child not with a tour operator, but with incomprehensible persons on incomprehensible grounds, only he, unfortunately, assumes all the risks that something may happen to the child.

This applies to trips around Russia with card payments to coaches and everyone else.

In Russia, there is a rather tough regulated history with legitimate children's recreation.

It is very clear how any legitimate organizer works under a magnifying glass.

Of course, this gives the parent a much greater number of guarantees in relation to the integrity of the staff, to the requirements, to the law.

Starting from certificates of non-conviction, ending with the criteria for training and selection, sanitary requirements that apply to bases and children's recreation.

Therefore, the rest of the child in Russia is legally protected much more, the parent is more protected, more understandable relations, if, I repeat, the parent chooses legitimate children's recreation and tourism.

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“Firstly, it is an opportunity to personally get acquainted with any organizer, see its website, requirements for it, understandable requirements of the law.

If we are talking about organizing children's recreation and health improvement, these are regional registers, these are hotlines that you can contact in case of any incidents: from the Ministry of Education to Rospotrebnadzor.

This is an opportunity to go to the child and pick him up if something happens.

Of course, this is an understandable, interesting program with our values, with our moral principles, with our Russian socialization, without difficulties, pressure, and so on.

This is a certain security and quality of staff who work with children.

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— Let me return to the fact that this year it will be an agglomeration near major cities, and if we are talking about excursion programs, these are the cities of the Golden Ring, the Pskov Region, and Karelia, and those interesting points where there is also natural tourism, and historical landmarks.