September 27 is the World Tourism Day. However, while in other cities of Ukraine it is celebrated only one day, in Transcarpathia there will be a Tourism Week. This was announced by the director of the Department of Economic Development and Trade of the RSA Denys Man at the press conference in the press-center of the RSA.
According to him, on September 19, an international scientific and practical conference on "Three T’s in Tourism" will be held in the "Owl’s Nest" in Uzhgorod. Businesses in the tourist market are already invited to register. There will be panel discussions on the topic of tourist trends, the development of destinations through the popularization of museums, castles, palaces. They will also discuss the creation of the regional office for sustainable tourism development in the Carpathians. If everything is okay, it will be one of three similar centers operating in Europe today, Mr Man said.
On September 20-21, they are going to organize a "Czech tourist route" in Transcarpathia for 8 tour operators from the Czech Republic. And on September 22-23, the 16th international tourist exhibition "TourEuroCenter Transcarpathia – 2017" will take place in the regional center. The official opening is scheduled for 10.30. The location of the exhibition has changed – this year, it will be the "Owl’s Nest". Denys Man said that 60 participants from Ukraine, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania and the Czech Republic had already registered.
On September 27, on the World Tourism Day, the best specialists in the field of tourism will be awarded in the RSA. Currently, there are 25 candidates, Mr Man says.
In turn, the president of the newly created NGO "Regional Tourist Organization of Transcarpathia" Fedir Shandor announced interesting statistics: as of August 24, 411 festivals have already taken place in the region (let’s notice that the year has 365 days). "They are not profitable, because it is just advertising of districts, investment in the future. And they do not always correspond to the definition of "fest". But a festival means rooms sold at hotels, coffee, train tickets, etc. Some group may later be invited to perform abroad," – he argues. In addition, we finally have water tourism, which brings profit. He states that the years 2016-2017 showed that tourism in Transcarpathia is not seasonal, but year-round.
Finally, there are now billboards advertising Transcarpathia in the cities of Ukraine. "We want to make friends with Odesa region. They have no mountains, we have no sea", – Fedir Shandor summarizes.
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