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9.1.6 Agriculture sector news
9.1.7 TMT sector news
Dragon Capital is expanding its media holdings acquiring Ukrainska Pravda, the 21-year-old news site. Dragon already owns NV, a leading business news site. “Same as with our existing media project, NV, we will maintain the practice of non-interference by the owner into Ukrainska Pravda’s editorial policy,” Tomas Fiala, Dragon’s CEO, said in a press release. The company said: “Dragon Capital sees this investment as another step towards supporting free media and freedom of speech in Ukraine, being also confident that digital media have great prospects as a business.”
9.1.8 Tourism sector news
Kyiv was visited by 116,000 foreign tourists in the first quarter of 2021
reported the press service of the Kyiv City Administration. The largest number of foreign tourists came to the capital from Belarus - 10,500 visitors. In second place are tourists from Israel - 8,900 people, in third from Turkey - 8,300. The list of countries from which the most foreign tourists came also included the USA, India, Germany, Great Britain, France and Georgia. According to preliminary estimates, 300,000 domestic tourists also visited Kyiv during this period.
Of Ukrainians who plan to take a vacation this year, about half plan to vacation in Ukraine, according a telephone survey of 2,104 people taken in mid-May. With summer approaching, 53% said they planned to take a vacation in Ukraine. Of this group, 44.5% plan to travel outside their home region. The
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