Travel Fair “Ukraine 2009″ in Kiev
06 – 08 October, 2009
The Embassy of Sri Lanka for the first time organized the participation of 9 Sri Lankan Travel Company at the “UKRAINE’2009” Travel Fair from 06th till 08th of October, 2009 to promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination. H.E. the Ambassador Udayanga Weeratunga took part the event and wished to improve business and find a new partners on the rapidly growing Ukrainian travel market for all participants: Tangerine Tours, Jetwing Travels, Exotic vacations, Aitken Spence Travels, Maldiviana, Exotic Global Holidays, Concord Exotic Voyages, Walkers Tours, Ceylon Tours.
Companies from more than 50 countries such as Austria, Argentina, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Hungary, Vietnam, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Egypt, Israel, India, Indonesia, Spain, Italy, Jordan, Canada, China, Cyprus, Malaysia, UAE, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, France, Croatia, Czech Republic, Chile, Switzerland, Seychelles, Mauritius, Macedonia, RSA and Japan exhibited in the UKRAINE’2009 Travel Fair.
Wish to mention that 75% of the total Ukrainian market belongs to the outbound tourism. In figures it is about 16 million of people traveled abroad. There are about 4500 travel companies in the Ukraine, which has their branch representative offices in regions as well. Excursion itineraries are in a great demand and the most important fact was that Ukrainian tourists preferred to combine beach and country round tour. That’s why Sri Lanka has a great potency to promote tourism in Ukraine.
According to the statistic the Ukrainian tourist arrivals had an 81.7% increase in 2008. The first 7 months 2009 brought for 67.4% more tourists from Ukraine and the growth are in progress now.
