O. Vilkul: In February Crimea will host a sitting of BSEC working group for tourism
On February 26, in the framework of the International Tourist Fair “The Crimea.
Resorts. Tourism 2014” there will be held a meeting of the working group on
cooperation in tourism of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic
Cooperation (BSEC) with an aim to consider the issues of development of the
tourist area, including certain kinds of tourism – recreational, culture and
others.
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“Tourism is one of
the bridges uniting the countries, cultures and people. Tourism is one of the
points of economic growth, an important component of an image and the level
of development of the country. Ukraine is being opened to the world with its
new facets. It concerns unique nature opportunities, history, tradition,
hospitality of Ukrainians,” the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Olexandr
Vilkul said. Apart from the
current issues of the meeting of the panel for tourism the Ukrainian party
will represent the vision of the project in the BSEC framework “Development
of cruise tourism in the Black Sea region”. Moreover, it is planned the report
and presentation by a representative of the Administration of Black Sea ports
of Ukraine to the topic “Development of cruise tourism”. Through February
25-27, Yalta Intourist hotel will host the XXIII International
tourist fair “The Crimea. Resorts. Tourism 2014”. Main topic of the fair
is event and activity tourism. One of the central
events of the fair will become the III International Black Sea Tourist Forum. This year it will be devoted
to the issues of creating of joint tourist products of the Black Sea for the tourists
from China, Japan, South Korea, Canada and the USA. Leaders of tourist administrations
of the Black Sea region countries (Georgia, Turkey, Russia, Bulgaria, Romania) and the largest tourist companies of China,
Japan, the USA, Canada and South Korea have been invited to participate in
the forum. “The Crimea is a
bright pearl of the tourist Ukraine. This region is traditionally popular
with Ukrainians and our foreign guests. The Government of Ukraine takes
measures for all the regions of the country to determine with their tourist differentiation. I
am pleased to stress that leaders of the Crimea strive to decrease an impact
of a season factor targeting to ensure comprehensive activity of tourist area
and resorts on the peninsula during the whole year,” the chief of the State
Agency of Ukraine for Tourism and Resorts Olena Shapovalova said. There will be
represented over 540 exhibitors at the fair with general amount of
participants around 14.5 thousand persons. Besides, it is
planned holding of a series of roundtables, master-classes and presentations.
Among them are roundtables for categorization of objects of tourist
infrastructure, development of medical tourism, drawing of investments from
Europe and financial instruments into modernization of health resorts and
infrastructure objects. Apart from that, there will be held the III
International forum of IT technologies in tourism. |