The Government placed a 540-day moratorium during which the tourists cannot ask to be refunded the payments they made for scheduled vacations before March 17, 2020. The travel agencies pledge to refund the money to the tourists who do not want to reschedule the vacations until December 31, 2021, IPN reports.

According to Minister of Justice Fadei Nagachevski, the business entities operating in the tourism industry are unable to refund the money to clients during the period of time stipulated by the legislation owing to the crisis caused by COVID-19.

He noted that most of the clients want to terminate the contracts with travel agencies, refuse to reschedule the trips and ask to be paid back the money and this can lead to the insolvency of travel firms.