Tourist Exhibition UITT 2012. Kiev, the IEC

What a pleasure to visit Kiev, especially when there are some cases in the first half of the day, and the rest of the evening before the train can be devoted to walks, recreation and entertainment. This time even more lucky, I managed to walk to the Downtown Station gm, drink coffee and stare at the city prior to the exhibition. Looked at the Olympic stadium that looks very powerful impression on the poglazel noisy and running morning Kiev, inhaled the smell of money near the Arena and Lesia Ukrainka, you can get down to business.

I love the Kiev subway after 11 to 16 people a bit, plant a beautiful and clean. That's just stomping on the Left Bank to the ICC too far, and very convenient. Exhibition, as always a big, bright, well organized, with a solid composition uchastikov. This year, though surprised at the lack of a full stand of the Egyptian, and Arabic drill was introduced much more modest than before, especially Dubai and the Emirates. But Turkey, as always on, above, the more good stands were in Bulgaria, Israel, Czech Republic, Poland and other countries.

It is sad that Odessa is a little on the exhibition, said that there is somewhere in the stand area, but, honestly, I have not found it. In general, the regions of Ukraine Kiev was well represented at Euro 2012 theme, a little Lviv, Transcarpathian, Chernivtsi, Mykolaiv, Berdyansk on the Azov Sea, with just a few objects from the region under one guise once tried to present itself.

Odessa has always represented the region as a recreation Ruta, which makes it hard from year to year. Generally 90% of stands representing the Ukraine - a melancholy, even Bukovel, representing a new hotel Radisson, Truskavetskurort, Ukrprofzdravnitsa - it's just boring and suck stands.

 

The only ones who did in Ukraine pleased svim view resorts - it's Crimea. As always, some big and beautiful stands, coherent materials, concrete business proposals, professional approach to tourism development, not just fragmented chorus of voices from the resorts, guest houses and hotels.

I am glad that Georgia, Croatia, Bulgaria seems to be in the holiday season and this year already and Greece did not want to Ukrainian visa, so in these areas, there are interesting proposals and excitement among the operators, incidentally, is pleased Odessa, on the stand of Bulgaria to the country were including our agency Planetа.

In short, international tourism is still ten times, not only turnover of tourists, but also in terms of approach, attitude and investment in the tens of times higher than the domestic Ukrainian and foreign tourists to our proposals. It's sad and all the more difficult to be optimistic about the future.


Maxim Veseliy, March 29.