[경제]”Debt pile before daily use”…’Sales zero’ travel industry appeals to guarantee the right to live

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The travel industry, on the verge of collapse due to the prolonged corona 19, visited the Blue House and urged them to guarantee their right to live.

Last year, when sales fell by more than 80%, they appealed for the expansion of disaster subsidies and easing self-isolation of immigrants.

Reporter Cha Yoo-jeong reports.

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At the beginning of last year, organizations from the travel industry, driven to the edge of a cliff from the beginning of Corona 19, ran in front of the Blue House.

As quarantine continues with the prolonged corona 19, the situation of’zero sales’ continues without promise.

The representatives of the travel agency complained that they were in a situation where they transferred their daily jobs and were even scattered with their families in a pile of debt.

[오창희 / 한국 여행업 협회 회장 : 많은 여행사 대표는 일용직을 전전하고 융자와 대출의 빚더미 속에서 신용 불량자 나락에 떨어져 있습니다.]

The position of the travel industry is that there is a tremendous lack of low-interest loan support and employment maintenance support.

The first thing the industry wants is to expand disaster subsidies.

Currently, the travel industry is classified as a general type of business, and when the disaster subsidy is paid, only one-third of the subsidy of 3 million KRW, which is a subsidy for the collective prohibited business, has been received twice.

[정해진 / 서울시 관광협회 국외여행업 위원장 : 우리 여행업은 집합제한 업종이나 집합금지업종이 아닌 처음부터 집합 단절업체이고 매출 정체업체입니다. 그 어느 업종보다 직접 피해를 입은 업종이기 때문입니다.]

With the sales bottoming at all, the employer demanded that the share of the employment maintenance subsidy, which is required to compensate for part of employee wages and insurance premiums, was also reduced.

He insisted that the current 14-day self-isolation standard be flexible so that even the minimum amount of business can be carried out.

The sales of the travel industry dropped nearly 84% from 12 trillion won last year to 2 trillion won last year.

As of September-October last year, only 4,500 travel agencies were closed, accounting for more than 25% of the total.

There are 82,000 workers, and about 48,000, or half, were forced to leave or unemployed.

The travel industry, drowned in a dark tunnel with no end, shouted in a single voice for the Blue House to come out.

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[저작권자(c) YTN & YTN plus 무단전재 및 재배포 금지]