2024-03-19 06:08:34
Europe “We are here”
Ukraine is already planning for tourism after the war
At some point, when there is peace, international visitors will come to Ukraine again. We are already preparing for it. The state tourism development agency has presented a campaign to promote the country as a travel destination.
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By Kira Hanser
responsible editor travel/style/engine
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He collects exhibits for tourism after the war. Parts of crashed military aircraft, shrapnel, bullet casings, bits of drones, but also personal documents from fallen soldiers at the front. “We call this the Russian corner in our office,” says Roman Sinitsyn, 37.
His homepage for cheap Ukraine tours has been offline since the beginning of the war; instead he has been working for a soldiers’ charity since then. He gave some of the memorabilia to the National Museum in the capital Kiev. At some point, when there is peace, the international visitors will come again. And then also to his future war museum.
Ukraine is also officially preparing for post-war tourism in the middle of the war. The State Agency for Tourism Development (SATD) has presented an international campaign entitled “We Are Here: Brave Hearts of Ukraine” to commemorate the destination. The film portrays Ukrainians like Roman Sinitsyn, who used to work in tourism and are now deployed in the war.
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Soldier Maxym Ostapenko is also one of them. The former curator at the Zaporizhzhia Cossack Museum on Khortytsya, the largest island in the Dnipro River, and his team brought many exhibits to a safe location by helicopter. There they will be stored and protected until the war is over. The campaign’s moving message is: Ukraine is still here; it is waiting to be rediscovered by the world as soon as travelers can travel here safely again.
SATD boss Mariana Oleskiw says: “We are working on plans to rebuild our infrastructure, our hotels and attractions.” At the same time, the country wants to remember the war. The first “future war memorial routes” are already being developed for this purpose. For peacetime.
War tourism is currently undesirable in Ukraine
Ukraine usually has a lot to offer tourists: metropolises such as Odessa, Kiev, Lviv (Lviv), the Black Sea coast, the Carpathians, the Danube Delta. In 2019, before Corona, almost 14 million international travelers visited the country. Most came from Poland, followed by Turkey, Israel, Germany and the USA. In 2013, 26 million guests came to the country, including many Russians. Since the annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, the latter are no longer allowed to travel to Ukraine.
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Current war tourism is undesirable by the Ukrainian tourism agency, but is still offered. For example, there are guided bus trips to Ukraine from Poland, run by the Quand travel agency from Tomaszów Lubelski, near the border.
And War Tours from Kiev offers tours through the Ukrainian capital as well as the cities of Irpin and Bucha, which were occupied by Russians in 2022. The goal of these trips is loud Website: “Exploring the evidence of Russian aggression.” Part of the proceeds, the company says, will be used to help the Ukrainian army. Anyway.
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