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Travel agencies to notify border authorities about arrival of tourist groups to streamline traffic

11:33 | 22.05.2019 Category: Economic

Chisinau, 22 May /MOLDPRES/- Tourists will get a better tourist experience and standby time at state border crossing points will be lower during the summer. For this, in the following period, the Investment Agency and the General Inspectorate of the Border Police will cooperate and will provide tourists traveling by buses with effective border crossing assistance.

Thus, through an electronic communication channel, the travel agencies will be able to notify the border authorities about the arrival of the groups of tourists in advance of 24 hours. Operational exchange of information on date, time, border crossing point, data bus and passenger number will help distribute resources efficiently and provide more effective assistance. Thus, the control time of the acts will be much lower and the buses will no longer stand in queues in customs.

The new electronic communication platform will enter a two-week test period starting on Monday, 27 May, so that it will continue to operate on a permanent basis.

Director-general of the Investment Agency Rodica Verbeniuc said that the interest of foreigners towards our country is increasing and their number is constantly growing. The prior notification of the Border Police will allow the efficient distribution of human resources, providing a dedicated passageway and informing colleagues from neighboring countries to join efforts.

Head of the General Inspectorate of the Border Police Fredolin Lecari said that during summer, the number of Moldovan citizens choosing to spend their holidays abroad increased significantly.

"For example, 12,219 buses crossed Leuseni customs in June-August 2018, transporting 276,764 passengers, up by 9% against the same period last year. That's why we came up with this proposal to the Investment Agency to streamline traffic. The launched requires the tour operator to notify the Border Police in advance through a standard form, which can be downloaded from the official website of the institution about the arrival or departure of the group of tourists, including details of the number of persons, registration number of the bus, exact time of arrival and customs,” Lecari said.

According to official data, last year through travel agencies and tour operators, our country was visited by 19.3 thousand people, up by 10.2% than in 2017. Also, the statistics on the number of border crossings shows that Romania, the Russian Federation, Austria, Germany, Ukraine, Poland, China, Italy and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland are among the top countries which foreign visitors come from.

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