Rosaccreditation is going to introduce a new classification format for hotels of the “no stars” category from September. The agency, which recently transferred the authority to regulate these processes, proposes to abandon the usual procedure with the participation of specialists from an accredited organization, replacing it with a self-assessment with further moderation by specialists from the federal service.
Hoteliers are offered to use a special smartphone application “Mobile Inspector”. With the help of a video camera, they will need to confirm that the accommodation meets 60 criteria. And the fact that the shooting is carried out precisely in the classified object should be confirmed by the GPS positioning system. Judging by the data in the app store, the program developed by the Ministry of Finance has been in use for about 1.5 years, which means it should fall into the hands of the hotel business no longer raw.
“After all control points are fixed, the data is sent to the employees of Rosaccreditation for verification of compliance with the stated requirements. Next, the object will be included in the register and can start operating as a hotel without stars,” the department explained.
According to Rosaccreditation, now more than half of the objects on the market are classified without stars. The same approach is supposed to be extended to sanatorium-resort establishments. Camping and glamping sites, guest houses and modular hotels, which are not currently subject to mandatory classification, are also proposed to be admitted to the register on the basis of self-assessment.
“We approach this initiative with great caution. On the one hand, it is a big plus that such simplification assumes entry into the register and the legal field of accommodation facilities, which are not classified at all now, since they either really are not hotels, or pretend that they do not belong to them, but represent non-single accommodation facilities. But on the other hand, this can lead to an increase in the number of violations. Even now, some objects are classified, despite non-compliance with current requirements. But instead of providing increased control over this procedure and stopping such tricks, they introduce self–assessment, which provides complete freedom for such unscrupulous hoteliers,” says Natalia Petrovskaya, co-chairman of the League of Small Hotels, Hostels and Tourist Accommodation.
Earlier TourDom.ru He wrote that the idea of assigning stars to campgrounds has attracted criticism.
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