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year. This includes: crops, animals, family farms and company farms. Northern regions had the smallest declines: Rivne minus 3%; Sumy minus 4%; and Chernihiv minus 5%. Due to drought, the biggest drops were in south and central Ukraine: Cherkasy minus 24%; Kirovograd minus 32%; and Odesa minus 38%.
9.1.7​ TMT sector news
9.1.8 ​Tourism sector news
Bills on ‘virtual assets,’ on cloud storage and on creating Diya.City, a virtual free economic zone for IT companies, are legislative priorities this year for the Ministry of Digital Transformation. ​Minister Mikhail Fedorov wrote on Telegram that another bill will allow people to change their place of registration with “a few clicks.” Referring to this hangover from Soviet days, he called for “unlinking registration from many situations in life (where it is really not needed).”
The tourism industry of Ukraine in 2020 saw about UAH60bn ($2.1bn) of damage ​due to the coronavirus pandemic. At the same time, she clarified that the agency plans to publish the detailed results of the industry in 2020 in early February. At the same time, there is still no detailed statistical data on the tourism market and its participants in Ukraine, Oleskiv said.
Ukrainian resort hotels were almost entirely occupied during the Christmas-New Year holidays​, Artur Lupashko, founder of the Ribas Hotels Group hotel chain, tells Interfax-Ukraine. Bukovel, the Carpathian mountain ski resort town, was 97% full, he said. Christina Kagui, head of resort hotels for Reikartz Hotel Group, said bookings were slow until the government assured the public that they would not be a Christmas-New Year lockdown. She said:
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