Tourism Boom in Ukraine: 300,000 Visitors Per Day

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Tourism Boom in Ukraine: 300,000 Visitors Per

Day

PR Newswire

KYIV, June 14, 2012

KYIV

,

June 14, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

During

EURO 2012

match days approximately 300,000

people cross Ukrainian border, reports

Ukraine's

Ministry of Infrastructure. According to the Master

Card's Global Destination Cities Index,

Ukraine's

capital

Kyiv

, the venue of

EURO 2012

final, ranked higher than

Polish Warsaw, co-host of the football championship.

This June the daily number of people arriving in

Ukraine

grew by 90,000

compared to the same period of 2011, said

Ukraine's

Minister of Infrastructure

Borys Kolesnikov. On

June 11

, the match day between

Ukraine

and

Sweden

,

over 100,000 fans visited

Kyiv's

fan-zone on Maydan Nezalezhnosti

(Independence Sq.). It is expected that during the tournament's second round

of the group stage the number of tourists will exceed even the current rate.

"After the first round of the championship Ukrainian airports started to receive

more applications for accepting charter flights," commented the minister. He

believes this was caused by the foreign fans who have already visited

Ukraine

and shared their experiences with friends and family back home.

There are four Ukrainian cities that host the European football championship:

Kyiv

, Kharkiv, Donetsk, and Lviv. These are the cities that attract the most

foreign tourists in

June 2012

. According to Master Card's Global Destination

Cities Index, the number of people visiting

Kyiv

would grow by 18.5 percent,

reported

Liga Net

.

In the Master Card's rating

Kyiv

occupied higher position than the Polish capital

Warsaw

, another

EURO 2012

co-host.

Kyiv

also ranked higher than

Montreal

,

Boston

,

Rio-de-Janeiro

, etc. Most of the guests visiting

Kyiv

in 2012 will come

from

Moscow

,

London

,

Frankfurt

,

Tel-Aviv

, and

Munich

, reports the index.

Moreover, the tourists tend to spend more money on their visits to

Kyiv

: in 2012

the expenditures index is expected to grow by 29.8 percent. Previously, Erste

Bank research unit issued a report indicating that each of the expected 500,000

visitors to

Ukraine

will spend the average of

EUR 800

over their three to four

day stay in the country.

The Index of Global Destination Cities, created by MasterCard Worldwide, is an

annual research program that describes and analyzes the global network of

132 destination cities and how they are connected through cross-border air

travel and associated expenditures.