Some 6.1 million people used the services of Ukrainian tour operators and travel agents in 2019, the total income of travel companies (legal entities) and travel agents (individual entrepreneurs) amounted to UAH 32.6 billion (excluding VAT), according to data from the State Statistics Service.
According to the department, in Ukraine in 2019 some 1,867 legal entities-subjects of tourism activities and 2,797 individual entrepreneurs-travel agents were registered. The total income of tour operators amounted to UAH 31.9 billion, individual travel agents some UAH 751.4 million.
In the structure of the tourist flow in 2019, inbound tourists accounted for 1.4%, outbound for 90.1%, domestic for 8.5% of the total number of tourists.
Tour operators last year sold 2.93 million vouchers worth UAH 60 billion. Some 2 million vouchers were sold directly to the population, of which 1.85 million to Ukrainians for traveling abroad, 189,400 for traveling within the country, 51,690 for foreigners for traveling in Ukraine.
According to the State Statistics Service, the main purpose of tourists who used the services of tour operators in 2019 was leisure and recreation (4.96 million tourists), business trips and education (267,500), treatment (56,000), specialized tourism (21,300), other purposes (7,100), and sports (3,900).According to statistics, last year travel agents sold 411,400 vouchers for a total of UAH 9.7 billion. Of these, 359,600 vouchers were sold to Ukrainians for traveling abroad, 48,900 for traveling within the country, 2,800 for foreigners.
According to the agency, among the countries from which the majority of foreign tourists arrived on vouchers the leaders were the UK (10,600 tourists), Egypt (10,300), Poland (8,400), Moldova (7,800), Turkey (5,000), and Germany (4,000).
At the same time, Ukrainians mainly bought vouchers to Egypt (2.04 million tourists), Turkey (1.5 million), the UAE (139,600), Spain (136,500), Greece (98,700), Italy (78,200) and Cyprus (74,000).
