Over 2,000 fans were interested not only in football competitions but also in the history of Kyiv during the Euro 2012 European Football Championship, the Ukraine 2012 Information Center has reported.
“We offer paid and free-of-charge sightseeing tours to the guests of the capital city, and fans were equally interested in both. They divided into approximately equal parts: over 1,000 tourists ordered different kinds of paid sightseeing tours, and approximately 1,000 did free sightseeing,” said the chief of the Kyiv fan zone information center, Arseniy Finberh.
He said that the most popular sightseeing tours among foreigners were the ones to the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra monastery and to the World War II Museum, the Communist Kyiv tour showing the Soviet past of the capital city, along with the Secret Kyiv tour, which features little-known and mysterious places in the city. Besides this, general sightseeing tours by bus and Dnipro tours enjoy great popularity. So-called “beer tours” to city pubs and private breweries were of special interest to the guests of the capital city.
The tourist information centers in the city are also popular. The average number of tourists going to them for volunteers’ help is 300 per day.
“As a rule, people inquire about how they can get to the stadium or interesting things that can be seen in the capital city. There are also some not very pleasant reasons for going there: people lose documents and things. We help everyone,” Finberh said.
