In the first quarter of 2017, tourist flows to Kyiv remained positive and its increase compared to the same period in 2016 was 33 percent, or 70,690 people, head of the tourism department of Kyiv City State Administration Anton Taranenko has said.
“In the first quarter of 2017 in general 283,389 tourists visited (Kyiv) (211,700 in 2016.) In the current year, Kyiv, according to the forecast indicators, expects 1.5 million foreign visitors,” Taranenko wrote on Facebook on June 26.
He said that the leading positions in the rating were taken by such countries as Belarus (an increase by 22,770 people); Israel (by 5,920 people); Turkey (5,350 people); the USA (3,520); Poland (3,130); Azerbaijan (2,110); Latvia and Lithuania (1,200); Germany (1,910 people); Kazakhstan (1,810); China (1,760); France (1,470); the Netherlands (1,040).
