Tourism in wartime Ukraine – condition, restrictions and prospects

Abstract

The aim of the article is to present the current possibilities of travelling in Ukraine, shaped in the first year of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, and the problems that the war caused in the Ukrainian tourism economy. The research method used was the analysis of selected secondary sources, including literature on the impact of crises on tourism, tourism industry reports and statistics on tourism in Ukraine. It was stated that, as a result of the war, international tourism in Ukraine decreased by as much as 90% and in the near future it will be very difficult to reach the pre-war number of visitors. There is still domestic tourist traffic, but it is subject to numerous and internally diversified restrictions. As a result, in 2022 there was a significant decrease in the size of the national tourist tax (by 24%) and budgetary revenues from the tourism economy (by 31%), despite the impressing increases in the above-mentioned categories in the western regions of Ukraine.