Where are you, a tourist bus?


Bus travel as a mass transport

Ukraine has enormous tourism potential: because eventful year history, the presence of a large number of historical monuments and cultural attractions, our country has much to offer to both foreign and its citizens.

However, modern tourists are quite demanding clients, and to a substantial increase in tourist flows in the state should be established an infrastructure which consists of many components. One of them - transporting: tourists must be delivered to the residence from the airport (railway station or sea), and even directly from their country of residence. And already from hotels, holiday camps, camping, sports camps, etc. - to places of recreation and attractions. This process must meet several requirements, in the first place - to comfort and security of transportation.

Typically, such a transfer is carried out with the help of tourist class buses, ie, specially equipped for the carriage of passengers in this category. The massive use of buses in the tourism industry due to several factors: autonomy (the bus is less than other modes of transport is dependent on external infrastructure), relative affordability for a businessman, mobility. Modern technologies of automobile made possible the emergence of long-haul aircraft that can safely and with a sufficiently high level of comfort to transport tourists to the distance of a few thousand kilometers.

Frozen in the \u0026quot;Middle Ages\u0026quot;

If the majority of the Ukrainian tourist infrastructure still developing - for example, there are new, modern hotels and resorts, travel services, market participants are adopting modern methods of training, the situation with the motor providing travel companies other than deplorable, can not be named. After all, in a country that proudly calls itself European, tourists should not go to 25-year-old \u0026quot;Ikarus\u0026quot;! Nevertheless, such a picture is often possible to observe throughout the country, including in Kiev. It is clear that a foreign tourist, having experienced such a dubious comfort, is unlikely to get pleasure from the tour, therefore, once again will not come to our country. Yes, and a citizen of Ukraine several times think, but is it worth it to go on an excursion to the \u0026quot;Ikarus\u0026quot; or something like that ...

At the same time, modern tourist bus trips on the streets of the capital and major tourist centers of the country though there are, but not as often as they could. The same pattern and in the Crimea: although the tourist flow to the peninsula steadily increasing, we can not say the same about the respective coaches. There is a lack of modern transport services for tourists and Odessa - a situation all the more unnatural, since in recent years more and more foreign companies are planning visits by cruise liners in their the city. As far as the Carpathians, there modern buses transport tourists are extremely rare - not least because of the quality of roads in the mountains. The local entrepreneurs are few with a modern fleet, prefer to use it for transportation of passengers and tourist groups abroad, in the mountains, such as sending buses in exceptional cases. Not least because, after such flights liner must be put on a pretty serious repair. 

Not developing at the pace and direction of domestic tourism, as tours of the day - today among the citizens of Ukraine, and the adjacent territories of neighboring countries who want to go on such tours are much more than they can offer. The reason is the same - lack of rolling stock necessary klassnosti and comfort.

This situation is largely attributable to the state of the domestic automobile industry, as well as the current legislation. If the first, with rare exceptions, tourist class buses do not produce, then the second, one might say, frozen in a kind of medieval times: a variety of taxes, duties and excise duties for the import of modern passenger vehicles, and hence adapted to transport tourists are indeed draconian -- rastamazhi-Wai\u0026#39;s \u0026quot;bus, the entrepreneur has to pay up to 60% of its value invoysnoy budget. These rules have remained unchanged since the Soviet period and today, contrary to common sense: after all, the essence of high duties, taxes and excise duties is to protect domestic producers from competition from imports. However, to protect our country ... in fact nobody

In the current situation where the market tourist traffic there is an acute shortage of tourist buses all classes - from 10 to 60 and even 70 local - the Ukrainian market participants are forced to use to transport tourists what the market offers. And he, in turn, a variety of domestic tour operators do not indulge. In fact, entrepreneurs have to choose from 3 possibilities: to use a converted transport, use proposals domestic automobile industry, as well as the ubiquitous Chinese.