A few days before the opening of the Intourmarket International Tourism Exhibition, the amount of the fee for special medical meals for 5-year-old Vitya Kuznetsov, one of more than 800 wards of the Children's Hospice “House with a Lighthouse”, was 303,732 ruble. And now, only a week has passed since the start of the exhibition, and the entire amount was collected in record time!
Intourmarket and the PCT Committee on Children's and Family Tourism helped close the fundraiser for 5-year-old Vitya Kuznetsov
“Of course, the largest contribution was made at our traditional Interregional Charity Auction, which takes place on the second day of the Intourmarket. for the seventh year in a row – on Charity Day, – comments Konstantin Isaakov, the initiator and coordinator of the charity event “Tourist business with an open heart”, for which Vitya became the 31st ward. – Here I cannot fail to mention the Tambov, Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod regions, our colleagues from RATA News, as well as the Department of Culture and Tourism of Jiangsu Province (PRC): they put up for auction the largest number of lots. And, interestingly, this time the auction has exhausted almost all of our stocks of lots. Some bought during the auction, and something already at the end. We have a rule: before the start of the auction, a lot can be purchased at the starting price + one step, at the auction itself – how do you bargain, and at the end of the – at the starting (fixed) price. So, post-auction sales (we call this anti-fair mode) gave about 40% of the result this time. But, an auction is an auction, and the most significant financial contribution – about 50 thousand rubles – was made in the course of “Intourmarket” Committee of the Russian Union of Travel Industry (PCT) for Children and Family Tourism».
Back in mid-February, at the awards ceremony for the laureates of the second All-Russian Russian Travel Awards, the representative of the charity event “Tourist business with an open heart” Olesya Kalacheva, head of the PCT committee on children's and family tourism, came up with the words: “We cannot stand aside from such an important matter as helping terminally ill children – wards of the Children's Hospice “House with a Lighthouse”. We will definitely support your charity event financially. This is exactly what happened at the Inturmaket-2023 exhibition.
The PCT Committee on Children and Family Tourism, as RTN says – RATA News actively participates in legislative activities and government support initiatives for children's tourism, in developing measures to ensure the safety of children while traveling, paying special attention to removing barriers that hinder the development of children's tourism in the country, and conducting practical activities for tourism industry professionals offering children's recreation.< /p>
In a word, the number of partners of the charity event “Tourist business with an open heart” growing every month. More recently, the Luzhniki Grand Sports Arena Excursion Center, the Marina Travel Moscow tour agency, and the Children of the Sun inclusive project have also expressed their desire to support the campaign.
Thank you all participatory!