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9.1.8 Tourism sector news
Three million visitors traveled to Ukraine in 2021. The number of visitors that traveled to Ukraine during the first nine months of 2021 increased by 12.6% compared to the same period last year, announced the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine. As of October 2021, the country was visited by 70% of Europeans, 25.5% of tourists from Asia, 3% - tourists from North America, 1.4% from Africa, 0.6%, and 0.2% from Oceania and South America. In total, three million foreigners came to Ukraine in 2021.
The number of tourists in Ukraine in January-September 2021 exceeded the same indicator of 2020 by 12.6% and amounted to 3 million people, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine said on Facebook.
Kyiv hotel occupancy drops due to COVID-19 restrictions. The quarantine restrictions have led to a decrease in hotel occupancy in Kyiv from 74% in September to 65% in October, and in Lviv, from 73% to 60%, announced the Head of the Hotel Matrix project, Yelyzaveta Rudeleva (Interfax-Ukraine). In the regions in October 2021, Kharkiv was able to keep the occupancy rate as in September at 56%; but in Odesa, the hotel occupancy rate decreased from 63% to 43%.
Black Sea cruise tourism is to bounce back next summer, with 37 cruise liners booked to dock in Odesa in 2022, Tatiana Markov, the city’s Culture and Tourism Director, writes on Facebook. With 25,000 tourists expected, she is recruiting English- and German-speaking guides.
The regional airports of Poltava, Zhytomyr, and Chernivtsi will be upgraded from the beginning of 2022. The improvements to local airport infrastructure will complement the existing upgrades being carried out at Dnipro and Kryvyi Rih airports which are scheduled to commence in 2022. “The tender for the will be announced, and we hope that construction work will begin next year”, said President of "Big Construction", Oleg Varivoda, during a recent forum. In addition, these major upgrades to airport infrastructure, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine expects to begin constructing a runway at Mukachevo International Airport in mid-2022.
9.1.9 Utilities sector news
Coal stocks at Ukraine’s power plants are at half the levels planned for mid-November, Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Independent Trade Union of Miners of Ukraine, writes on Facebook. Across the nation, stocks vary widely, with levels at one plant, Zaporizhia down to 6% of the expected level.
Electricity production increased by 6.6% this year, announced the Ukrainian Ministry of Energy. In January-October 2021, electricity production in Ukraine amounted to 127.722 bln kWh, which is 6.6% more than in the same period of 2020. In January-October 2021, nuclear power plants increased electricity production by 9.8% to 69.183 bln kWh, and hydroelectric power plants by 43.8% to 8.972 billion kWh. On the other hand, electricity production at thermal power plants increased by 2.2% to 30.196 billion kWh, and at thermal power plants and cogeneration units - it decreased by 28.7% to 6.982 billion kWh.
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