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The Association of Travel Agencies (UTAS) and the Association of Independent Travel Agencies (ANTAS) made a new appeal to the competent ministry to urgently solve the problem of blocking the work of travel agencies and warned that some 4,000 workers Tourists will lose their jobs tomorrow.
The blocking of agencies, as they say, increases the chances that they go bankrupt en masse and thus leave passengers without alternative trips.
“We also ask insurance companies to announce whether they will pay damages to passengers who will not be replaced, because most agencies cannot continue to work under current conditions,” the statement read.
Bankruptcy policies, which are a legal condition for organizing trips, as they say, are not even offered to most agencies.
Also, prices are unrealistically high, because agencies certainly won’t achieve significant turnover anytime soon, UTAS and ANTAS claim, adding that agencies are doing everything they can to survive to allow replacement trips.
“Most agencies had to lay off a good part of the workers or will do so soon, but any cost cut is insufficient if the legal continuation of work and the sale of tourist arrangements are not enabled,” say UTAS and ANTAS.
The associations, they added, warned of all the problems and dangers in a timely manner, and the line ministry, they say, approved a regulation and a solution that is inapplicable in practice: bank guarantees as a condition to continue legal business, state the associations.
All the travel agency and guide associations in Serbia have asked the new Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Tatjana Matić for help in finding an acceptable solution for the continuation of the travel agency business.
“The current legislation and procedures of insurance companies favor large agencies, instead of allowing free competition in the market under equal conditions for all participants,” the statement read.
The association and association say they cannot allow that, because that would shut down smaller, mostly family-owned agencies that have been a mainstay of safe and reliable travel in local communities for decades and would contribute equally to Serbia’s budget.
(Kurir.rs/Tanjug)
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