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The tourist season begins in Russia, this year it will become special. The number of Russians who will spend their holidays inside the country will increase, new hotels and roads will appear. And also a lot of scammers.
Before the start of the tourist season, scammers charge tens of thousands of rubles for accommodation in rooms without amenities and are ready to treat customers with a surrogate for profit, reports Izvestia correspondent Ivan Litomin.
Iolanta Voronova paid almost fifty thousand rubles for four nights in a fashionable boarding house with fungus and mold in the bathroom and blackened parquet. The wife could not spend an hour in the room.
— It was the best room in the hotel. Well, according to the descriptions, the victim said emotionally.
Oleg Repin calls himself a Crimean winemaker. He sold the film crew for 45,000 rubles a cup of zucchini and cheese, liver pate, sausages and a few glasses of red. The winemaker sold wine to journalists without excise duty, at the winery visited by the film crew, they later said that the drink had nothing to do with wine.
Lawmakers are looking to find a compromise, offering more leniency to businesses. However, this leads to the flourishing of scammers’ activity. Authorities have allocated nearly 50 billion rubles for tourism development in 2023. Experts advise Russians to study reviews and consult with a travel agency before buying vouchers.
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