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Business news from Ukraine

NUMBER OF TOURISTS IN UKRAINIAN RESORTS GROWS BY 30%

8 July , 2020  

Тhe number of tourists who visited Odessa in June of this year returned to the pre-quarantine level, according to geo-analytics of the Vodafone Ukraine mobile communications operator/
The press service of the company reported that on Constitution Day tourists in Odesa were twice as much as on March 8. Most tourists came from Kyiv region. Residents of Odesa region were in second place, followed by Kherson, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk regions.
“Judging by the increase in Internet traffic and the number of 4G users, in general, domestic tourism in Ukrainian sea resorts in Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions has grown by 30% compared to the same weekend last year,” the operator said.
According to Vodafone Ukraine, coastal resort towns and villages of the Sea of Azov in Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions showed even greater dynamics.
Vodafone Ukraine said that the coastal villages of Donetsk region are among the new destinations with growing popularity among tourists: Bilosaraiska Kosa (177% up), Yalta (124% up) and Urzuf (101% up), which showed the highest traffic growth.
“The forecast of resort attendance based on their own data analytics allows the company’s engineers to provide sufficient network capacity – using stationary equipment and mobile towers – in hot spots, taking into account the organic growth of traffic,” Vodafone Ukraine said.