The exhibition "Anapa - the brightest sun of Russia" February 8 held a round table discussion on the introduction of tourist tax.

Moderated by the Minister of resorts, tourism and Olympic heritage of the region, Christopher Konstantinidi.

Topic resort fee is actively discussing the business community and authorities at all levels. The project has not been approved by the federal law, 16 February it will be discussed in Moscow.

Constantinides said that now the main question - how and where the money collected will be spent. The original authors of the project plan to guide them on an accomplishment. However, Kuban has proposed to guide the resort fee for the development of engineering infrastructure, the beaches and resorts of the promotion.

"We voice the opinion that it should be a tax levy. The only effective administration of the resort fee may carry the tax office. The creation of special units pickers certainly entail costs that can be higher than the fee. This bitter experience has been a decade earlier, "- said the Minister.

The mayor of Anapa Sergei Sergeyev said that in 2016 the resort hosted more than 4.5 million tourists. During peak load in the territory it was up to 450 thousand. People at a time. According to him, the capacity of municipal systems has a limit, and the network needs to be developed.

At the roundtable expressed views entrepreneurs and leaders of health resorts. They proposed to reduce the size of the resort fee in the off-season and cancel it during the cold period. The meeting noted that it is necessary to take into account the interests of the privileged categories of citizens.

All participants of the round table agreed that the introduction of this measure is necessary, but only after a study of the bill, which would regulate the size of the collection, taking into account features of the territory, where it will be used. They expressed the wish that the law in making business interests were taken into account, the tourists and the authorities, the press service of the administration of Krasnodar region.

How to write Internet-portal "Kuban 24 'Veniamin Kondratyev August 26 at a meeting of the presidium of Tourism Development of the State Council proposed to introduce a mechanism for the resort fee and the thus obtained funds directed to local budgets. The mayor of Gelendzhik Victor Khrestin supported the initiative, calling the introduction of resort gathering a necessary measure.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in September ordered the government to enter the resort fee before March 2017. RF Minister of the North Caucasus Lev Kuznetsov, 13 October proposed to test the resort fee in five regions of Russia: Stavropol and Krasnodar regions, the Crimea, Sevastopol and the Altai.

Kondratiev in December told who and how will pay a resort fee and whether it will affect the flow of tourists in the introduction. He said that the province plans to define a resort fee as a tax payment.