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CABINET EXPECTS RISE IN NUMBER OF FOREIGN TOURISTS TO 21 MLN BY 2020 – MINISTRY

25 January , 2017  

KYIV. Jan 25 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine expects the number of foreign tourists in Ukraine to rise to 21 million people by 2020, First Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Maksym Nefyodov has said.

“We expect the number of tourists to rise from 14 million to 21 million people,” he said at a round table dedicated to the discussion of the economic issues of the medium term plan of the government’s priority actions until 2020 in Kyiv.

The plan also foresees the increase in the number of domestic tourists from 500,000 to 1.5 million people by 2020.