KYIV. Dec 8 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The National Tourism Organization (NTO) has been created in Ukraine, Director of the tourism and resorts department of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine Ivan Lyptuha has said.
Lyptuha said on his Facebook page that the founding general meeting was held on December 5.
He said that the NTO will be a structure of consolidated business of the tourism sector in Ukraine. It is intended to bring the tourism sector to the most balanced and stable development model.
“NTO’s goal is to create the permanently operating platform uniting regional, town and sector tourism organizations to increase the quality of national tourist product, develop the professional building system and train specialists, as well as the entire marketing complex for the tourist brand of Ukraine on the domestic and global markets,” he said.
According to the report, regional and town tourism associations of Kyiv, Odesa, Lviv, Kherson, Mykolaiv, Ternopil and Kharkiv, companies Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine International Airlines, Amadeus, Google, InterContinental, GST Group, Plaske, Premier Expo, some sector associations and organizations (Kyiv National trade and Economic University and Scientific-Research Institute of Medical Rehabilitation and Balneology) took part in the founding general meeting.
