KIEV. November 17. UNN. Since the beginning of 2020, 2.7 million foreigners have visited Ukraine, which is almost 4 times less than the figure for the same period last year – 10.7 million people. This was reported by the press service of the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine, UNN reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The arrival of foreigners in Ukraine has decreased almost four times: 2.7 million in 9 months of 2020 against 10.7 million in 2019 for the same period,” – said in DART.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The agency also cited figures provided by the National Bank that in 9 months of 2020, foreign tourists spent in Ukraine 27 times less currency than in the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is reported that in total for the three quarters of 2020, citizens of other countries brought to Ukraine only 244 million dollars at a time when for the whole of 2019, foreign tourists spent in Ukraine 1.62 billion dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be noted that due to quarantine and closed borders, the costs of Ukrainians traveling abroad also dropped significantly. For 9 months of 2020, this figure amounted to 3.259 billion dollars – 2.2 times less than for 9 months of 2019. At the same time, most of this amount is currently spent by Ukrainian workers abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It should be added that in early November, parliamentarians passed a general presidential bill , which provides for the reduction or exemption from taxation of a number of projects and programs in the field of culture, tourism and creative industries, against the background of the corona crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, Google provided information on the top tourist sites , places and destinations in Ukraine by the number of Google-Maps & Search queries for 9 months of 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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