Activity in tourism sector to be facilitated in Moldova

Chisinau, 3 March /MOLDPRES/ - More legislative acts will be amended, in order to facilitate the activity in the tourism sector. The parliament’s juridical commission for rules and immunities approved a co-report for a draft law to this effect today.   

The draft sees excluding the compulsoriness of the model of the tourist contract, which will give economic agents possibility to diversity the content of the contract, depending on the contractual relations with the partners, but by observing the legal norms.

Also, the law proposes exclusion of the tourist voucher. “In the conditions of more and more active electronic trade, this document of strict record is obsolete and, to a great extent, doubles the contract of tourism services,” sources from the parliament said.  

At the same time, the authors propose compulsory elimination of the travel insurance only through tourism agencies and tourist operators, and respectively, providing the consumers of tourist services the freedom to choose the insurance services.   

At the same time, the authors propose giving right to work based on the entrepreneur’s licence for tourist guides, rural houses, providers of entertainment services, such as gastronomic master-class, artistic activities within tourist programmes.  

The draft law also proposes extending the list of authorities, private people and legal entities, who are given right to create tourism information centres, thus encouraging the promotion of local tourism. The draft also provides for the setting up of the consultative council for tourism, which is to be a communication platform, based on the public-private partnership.   

The draft law is to be adopted by the parliament.