Tourists will save optional

The portal of state and municipal servants gosuslugi.ru now any Russian who goes to rest abroad can register and leave information about themselves, a place of rest, hotel, route and any other data. Registration is free of tourists, is designed to ensure their safety, are available on request.

Particular emphasis on autonomy during their stay: the data provided may be the only source of information on "self-tourist" in the event of unforeseen circumstances.

Sceptics may smile - as if we needed the state, themselves organized vacation themselves and solve their problems. But one thing - flight delay or unoccupied hotel. It's quite another - an earthquake, a volcano, a revolution ... So, tourists vacationing in Egypt under permits tour operators, "calculate" during the revolutionary unrest was easy. Yes, and they do not have to wait long, they began to worry and call your travel agent. But to find a "free strangers" to clarify the situation and provide timely assistance (evacuation) proved problematic. And how many of these were in Cairo and throughout Egypt? Or in Haiti during the earthquake in 2010? In Thailand during the tsunami-2004?

  Take any one year - without natural or socio-political upheavals the world has not done. But the location and movement of tourists are known only to them and, at best, to friends and relatives. And with all due skepticism, to emergencies abroad, which could be threatened the lives and safety of Russians, the state reacts. Take, for example, two aircraft MOE, who last week were taken from the Russians remained restive Syria.

For lovers of active and extreme rest in the portal of public services will be available to special additional blocks, you can specify the details of the planned sports campaign, the route of increased danger, methods of transportation, means of communication, they are registered in the Ministry of Emergency Situations, or route-Qualification Commission. It is understood that the "best of the mountains can be only mountains", but safety while climbing on rafting, hiking in the taiga - above all else.

So do not be vain and Foreign Rosturizm thought the same thought and studied the foreign experience. From 1 January 2013, the Foreign Ministry set up a new department - Crisis Management Center (DSKTS). The main task unit designated as "security of Russian citizens, foreign institutions and other facilities outside the territory of Russia in the conditions of crisis and emergency situations."

At the same time the voluntary registration of tourists travel routes on the same site of public services may obtain information about the political and the epidemiological situation, or the security of any country. Answers come from the Federal Tourism Agency, in response to a written request authorized user. Information about the endangerment of the safety of tourists Rosturizm granted on the basis of the Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs, FSB, Rospotrebnadzor, Roshydromet. And, according to experts Rosutrizma, such requests have already begun to do, especially on the situation in the "All-Russian health resort '- Egypt. So that our tourists are not so careless as it may seem.

Yes, the Russians are not careless, but still is secretive and reluctant to share information about their travel, hobbies, traveling companions and any similar and more information about themselves. Some tourists in a conversation about the service asked a question: whether there will be left then the data used in the conduct of tax, banking, family proceedings? And that's because of the Congress of the Maldives on the gift voucher from parents / fans / friends, and the bank was right there - "to relax, and the minimum payment is not paid by credit card! ".

While I can not give reliable information on such issues (precedents was not yet), but the speech itself as a tourist, I would, first of all, to assess the risks of travel. It's one thing to go with a guided tour in Helsinki and the other - on a safari in South Africa, or climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. In the latter two cases, my information will definitely be at the disposal of the state. After all, what is more important - life or payment by credit card? And I agree with Rosturizm, which states that the registration will be familiar and active in case if the state will actually help the Russians in difficult situations on the basis of the data obtained. Poputeshestvuem - we see! (Read more)

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