Will Russian tour operators stop selling tours to Poland?
Russian tour operators working on the Polish destination
are concerned: the soonest date that can be offered by the online appointment
system of the Consular Division of the Embassy of the
Yesterday, the head of the consulate service
Mikhail Grechilo had a meeting with the tour operators in the Embassy of the
There`s a whole month of active sales ahead,
remind the tour operators. Two charter trains, specially organized for the ski
product – to
It would be necessary to say, that tour operators
have applied to Vice Minister of Sports and Tourism of the
Through the dialog between Russian tour business
and Polish governmental structures
Yesterday's meeting at Polish Consulate was short and the dialog that the tour operators expected failed. The head of the consulate service Mikhail Grechilo made it clear, that he is not planning to extend the daily quota. “The consulate doesn't have enough staff to process more passports. We do understand all the problems the tour operators are talking about, but will proceed from our possibilities,”- says Mr.Grechilo. However, he also said, that he`s ready to consider quota enlargement for certain operators for their particular tourists. This way of solving the problem is odd for the tour operators. In order to pick a day in the appointment system you have to fill in the details of an actual tourist with dates of the trip, hotel name, insurance policy number etc.
As a result, tour operators were asked to tell
the number of tourists, who will be needing a visa during winter season`s peak.
So, actually they had to say how many more packages they will sell for the New
Year and winter vacations. After analyzing the situation for “couple of days”,
Mikhail Grechilo will inform every company individually about the amount of
visas the consulate will be able to issue. This means, that in two days we will
know if the sales of winter tours to