Dancing fountains. It is not in Dubai. It is in Ukraine!

Only when the shades of evening begin descending, Vinnytsia meets the guests with amazing interweaving of water, music, ballet and flowers. Exactly so, dancing fountain ROSHEN in Vinnytsia is characterized. The light and music fountain is one of the most beautiful European fountains nowadays. It is the only floating fountain in Ukraine as well.

The height of the central jet reaches 65-70 meters, the wheel expansion is about 140 meters, while the size of the formed water splashes and dust projection screen is about 16 to 45 meters. It is equipped itself on a floating platform about 95 meters in length. It has 67 pumps for the fountain effect and another 30 for maintenance of ballast systems. 560 underwater lights are in the fountain which can change color in any way depending on the show program.

Dancing fountain with light and laser show takes place exclusively at night, and it is not by chance, because only when the shades of evening begin to descend, one can enjoy watching this unforgettable show. The most famous songs and melodies are selected as musical accompaniment: music by Mozart, Strauss, Smetana, and Beethoven.

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Tourist plans of Ukraine

The Crimean peninsula still remains the main tourist region of Ukraine. If believe Ukrainian and Crimean authorities, in the next years several great and expensive tourist projects will be carried out on the territory of the peninsula. They will allow not only making Crimea the tourist leader among the other region of Ukraine but making it the international resort.

One of such projects is the foundation of an industrial park “New Crimea” in    Dzhankoy. The building of such objects is the part of the national development of the country. According to the idea, “New Crimea” is going to be the heart of industrial objects, agricultural production and office center as well. The round area in 25 hectare has been already confirmed. Nearly 20 million of USD is needed for the realization of the project, the major part of which will be foreign investments.

Another tourist object is eco-resort “Balaklava Green”.  It will combine 4 independent regions and turn to be the resort of international level: building of hotels, motels, camping in total number of 22 objects with3,5 thousand rooms is planned here. Also complex will include cottages, apartments and town-houses, large retail, touristic, leisure and sport area.

In the list of the most expensive projects  tourist city with the well-developed infrastructure with hotels, restaurants, leisure and sports grounds will be added. The location is near Yevpatoria. The complex will include large yachting sea-piece with 1500 moorings, 4 stars hotel with 900 rooms. Besides, there will be new complex “Crimea Grand Prix” with up-to-date racing way in the length of 5 km

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Odesa welcomed Queen Victoria

Odesa welcomed Queen Victoria. It means one of the most luxurious cruise ships British liner “Queen Victoria”. This beautiful 294-meter liner touched at Odesa port on September 22. There were nearly 2 000 passengers on the board. They spent a day in Odesa, visiting Odesa Opera House.

Such event is surely to have a positive impact on Ukrainian tourism. “Every passenger, having arrived on the board spends nearly 150-200 EUR, - informed the manager of Odesa sea port Yuriy Vaskov. - Taking into consideration that the passengers of “Queen Victoria” are well-to-do people from Europe and America, this is an effective advertisement of Ukraine at the international tourist arena. 

“Queen Victoria” is not only cruise ship which called at Odesa port. There are two liners which are going to visit Ukraine: “Costa Atlantica” (Italy, September 26) and “Deutschland” (Germany, October 1)

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Day of German culture in Crimea popularizes the peninsula abroad

Day of culture of Crimean Germans will be held in Yevpatoria on September 15. It was informed by deputy of the mayor Serhiy Strelbytsky. The event is organized by Republican committee of cultural center for international relations and deported citizens and cultural center of Germans “Ludwigsburg “.

In the framework of the cultural day there will be fancy-dress march-past, exhibitions of German art and other events. Besides, presentation of the materials about history and culture of Crimean Germans, street festivities, concerts and contests are going to be conducted. The visitors will be treated with German beer and national cuisine. This fest has a branding character because many German tourists visit Crimea annually, the peninsula is described in the foreign media. Owing to the partnership with Ludwigsburg, Crimea was visited by a great number of tourists from German.

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Lviv was announced as the best city for living in Ukraine

Lviv was announced as the best city for living in Ukraine

On Fokus.ua in the social network Facebook users had chance to choose the best city for living in Ukraine. According to the results of voting, Lviv turned to the best city.From July to August 2012, each user on Facebook can vote for Ukrainian city, which he or she considers the best one for life. Voting was conducted at the page of Focus on Facebook. According to the findings, the city-winner will receive a gift from the project partner KIEV FASHION PARK. It will be a contemporary sculpture.

One hundred of Ukrainian cities were included into the list for voting. The total number of votes which were left is 11 851. Thus, the Top-10 the best cities in Ukraine is the following: Lviv - 3899 votes, Kyiv - 1471 votes, Odesa - 1146 votes, Vinnytsia - 1017 votes, Ivano-Frankivsk - 493 votes, Ternopil - 385 votes, Lutsk - 313 votes, Kharkiv - 303 votes, Kamenets - 285 votes, Uzhgorod - 284 votes. The results were published in August issue of the journal “Focus”

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Kyiv opened the season of exhibitions

September 5, 2012 KyivExpoPlaza opened its 20th exhibition season. 73 events will be planned for this autumn with 12 new topics. An attention will be paid to a verity number of festivals, industry-specialized trade-shows, charity fairs, conferences and corporate events.

Among the trends of this autumn, it is necessary to pay attention to the huge number of forums that run as separate events. Professional communities require increased attention and a separate program. Especially popular are the medical forums, dentistry conferences, construction society meetings of operation and road design, separate conventions for printing industry professionals. Such activities help networking, identifying problems in the industry and ways of its development. Among such events should be noted conference with the participation of international experts and local business Digital Marketing Convention, September 27-28, an international medical forum "Innovations in Medicine - Health Review of the nation", September 25-27, an international forum for the construction and exploitation of roads "Avtodorexpo ", November 27-29.

Kyiv residents and guests invited to the "Beer Feast", September 12-16, for all who are interested in the culture of other countries, it is useful to visit the festival "YaponoManiya", October 20-21 and Wine Festival, November 7-9, several IT- conferences will be in the mid and late October; Cat fair is waiting for their fans in November 24-25, Charity Christmas Fair this year will be doubled it size and will be held on December 1; parents and children are welcome for Christmas gifts and Christmas fairs, 6-8 December, for the fans of jewelry art, the organizers have planned a separate trade fair "Jewelry for Christmas", December 14-16.

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Crimea will be presented on the travel forum in Russia

The delegation of Autonomous Republic of Crimea will take part in I Travel Forum. The event is going to be held in Tula city (Russia) from 28 to 29 September. As the Ministry of resort and tourism of Crimea informs, in the framework of the forum the universal travel exhibition is planned. The Crimean delegation will present the resort and tourism potential of the peninsula under the common stand.

The event is devoted to the World day of tourism. The main aim of the travel forum is to create the ground for business communication among specialists in the tourism sphere of Ukraine and Russia as well as foreign countries. In the framework of forum the participants will get the opportunity to get important information, exchange experience, find the potential business partners, deal about partnership and receive necessary advice from the international experts. There will be   round working tables, sessions, master-classes and work-shops from the travel agencies as well as presentations of the promising projects of travel industry and signing of agreement about partnership. 

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Unique Ukraine: Genoese Fortress

The mighty Genoese Fortress is Sudak's main decoration and one of the most interesting historic and architectural monuments in Crimea. It has perfectly preserved not just its outer look, but also an inimitable medieval spirit and romance. Occupying 30 hectares of land, this unique fortification complex is situated at the ancient coral reef - Krepostnaya Gora (Fortress's Mountain) - that soars in a steep mighty rock over the emerald Sudak's bay. Due to fortunate location and powerful defensive facilities, the Genoese Fortress remained virtually
impregnable for enemies without over long time.

First fortifications were built here by Byzantines in 6th-7th centuries, but the greater part of preserved buildings refers to the Genoese period. That were the Genoese, who came to Sudak several years later, made it their military base and built a majestic fortress, which castellated turrets later became town's symbol. The Genoese Fortress, built in 1371 - 1469 years in the best traditions of West European fortification, was quite a powerful construction for its times. It had two separate lines of defensive facilities: outer and inner. Encircling mountain's northern slopes, the outer one was a complex of 14 towers connected with solid walls and the Main Gates.

Each tower possessed the name of the consul who financed it: this is recorded by cast-in slabs with heraldic symbols and relevant inscriptions that remained on some towers. In recent years the Genoese Fortress with its amazing atmosphere has become a backdrop for the festivals of historical reconstruction and knightly skills. Each summer it turns into true medieval coaching inn, where stiddies clatter, swards clang and armored warriors fight.

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International cruise company Royal Caribbean is going to add Odesa to its itineraries

Management of one of the world biggest cruise company Royal Caribbean is going to add Odesa to its itineraries. It was announced during the meeting between vice-mayor of Odesa Olena Pavlova and vice-president of Royal Caribbean Craig Milan. He arrived in Odesa in order to familiarize with tourist infrastructure of Odesa.  “I have heard a lot about your city. Several cruise ships of our company called at Odesa’s port. Unfortunately, it is an isolated case. But the responses of our passengers who visited Odesa are very positive. That’s why I used my chance to visit Odesa” - said Mr. Milan.

According to Mr. Milan, everything that he saw surprised him: service, infrastructure, architecture and cultural heritage. Regular calls and moorage of Royal Caribbean’s liners are expected in April 2014. Olena Pavlova admitted that Odesa is very interested in such partnership. “If everything is all right, our city is expected to have tourist boom. Cruise ships of Royal Caribbean are nearly 3 thousand passengers. They are tourists, who will see our city, spend here money and share information about Odesa with their friends and familiars.” 

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The World's Most Travelled Person visited national tourist project "Visit Ukraine"

  

Ukraine as a tourist destination attracts tourists from all over the world. Today, national internet portal “Visit Ukraine” was the initiator of the meeting with the most interesting person - Mr. Fred Finn. He is a British who earned an entry into the Guinness Book of Records as The World’s Most Travelled Person. In his “luggage” are 15 million of miles (more than 185 thousand of kilometers), 718 flights and 139 countries. But now he lives in Ukraine and happily married to pretty Ukrainian.

The representatives of “Visit Ukraine” organized this meeting to familiarize with Mr. Finn, his experience in travelling and his ideas about Ukraine. Mr. Finn said the he started travelling in 1959 and since he has been absorbed in travelling. He travels on both business and leisure.

The first country he visited was Belgium. 139 countries… there are plenty to choose from. But the traveler said that there are three his favorite places: Kenya - for its show-covered mountains, Seychelles because of the best beaches on the earth andUkraine - for the hospitality, beautiful landscapes, good beer and beautiful women. On the question “What place would you like to visit again?” Mr. Finn answered: “I’ m living here” (Ukraine). Though his birthplace is England, Mr. Fred Finn confessed that small town Komsomolsk in Poltava region resembles him his native Canterbury. He shared that he used to live in “the garden of England” and now he lives in “the garden of Europe”.

The main point is that Mr. Finn is a “fount” of information for tourists. He has a title ofUkraine International Airlines Goodwill Ambassador. His articles about tourism are invaluable. The pleasure is that Mr. Finn is eager to cooperate with national project “Visit Ukraine”.

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