Government makes garantiepot for vakantievouchers of 150 million euros

for The government to stop a 150 million euro into the pot, which is the Dutch Stichting Garantiefonds Reisgelden (SGR) stands for the travel vouchers, which the tour operators are offering holidaymakers whose travel is canceled. That is, the ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA) on Friday announced.

Since the beginning of the coronacrisis have to travel hundreds of thousands of the holidays is forced to cancel. If the operators of all the people with the money and the vacations were supposed to pay it back, this would have led to bankruptcy.

now, Therefore, on the initiative of the reiskoepel TRAVEL with the travel documents, was introduced. The GSC, in turn, was responsible for the payments of these credits. In case of a tour operator, it is still fall, then the holiday maker and the money is back in the POOL. That guarantee ended on 1 June, because there may not be enough money in the pot.

As for the government now to assist, the agencies continue to provide the credit, even though consumers always have the right to request their money back if they want it to be.

The agencies will have a tough
"The coronacrisis touches all of us, even in our free time: the holiday is already booked and paid for, was suddenly unable to continue. This is not only annoying for consumers, but also the tour operators have it hard," said secretary of state, Her C EZ.

"that's Why we, as a government, an appeal to the financial, travel vouchers, and to accept it." The European Commission (EC), the aid given by the government and the travel industry is yet to adopt it.

According to the DOCUMENTS passes to the extension of the credit until the 1st of september, and in mid-August, looked at whether a renewal is necessary. It comes with the travel vouchers, cries for a travel package, holidays where transport and accommodation are already booked with a tour operator.

for all Of your trips through a tour operator booked, which is a member of the SGR, an amount to the fund. That is, for the case of a travel company going bust. The coronacrisis was a group of about 80 million euros. So many holidays have been removed, the bottom of the pot is in sight.