Tag Archive for: Ukraine

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1231 | 407 | Challenges for the tourism industry in time of crisis: based on the example of Ukraine | Enikő Sass, Zoltán Karmacsi, Annamária Linc

Today, few countries in Europe have had as many negative impacts in the last 10 years as Ukraine, which became sovereign just 30 years ago. The armed conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014 and the annexation of Crimea, the Covid-19 pandemic that began in 2019 and the Russia-Ukraine war that broke out in early 2022 have such a severe economic impact on the country, which will take many years to eliminate, moreover the overall impact of these events is likely to set back the development of the country, and with it the tourism sector, which is our field of research, for decades._x000D_
The aim of the presentation is to show the direct and indirect impact of the above-mentioned events on Ukraine’s tourism. It also describes how the country’s tourism sector has responded to these crises and what measures have been put in place to deal with them. During the research, special emphasis was placed on the westernmost county (oblast) of Ukraine, Transcarpathia. The data of the presentation will be based on international (UNWTO) and national (State Statistics Service of Ukraine) statistical data, as well as questionnaire impact assessments carried out with the participation of representatives of the population and tourism sector of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war._x000D_
During the studies, the theoretical basis of tourism risks, the dynamics of Ukrainian tourist arrivals and the impact on tourism businesses were taken into account. The results show that a local crisis, such as the 2014 conflict in eastern Ukraine, resulted in a structural restructuring of the country’s tourism sector, highlighting new destinations of national importance and generating new travel motivations among the population of the westernmost region of the country. While in crisis situations of global scale, the country’s tourism sector is characterised by total instability, bottoming out of tourist arrivals and slow state actions and measures.

Enikő Sass, Zoltán Karmacsi, Annamária Linc
docent, Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Department of Earth Sciences and Tourism; docent, Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Department of Philology; assistant lecturer, Ferenc Rákóczi II Transcarpathian Hungarian College of Higher Education, Department of Earth Sciences and Tourism;

 
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1187 | 452 | Mgr. | Alexandra Dresler

Since the 1990s, the Polish-Ukrainian border has been undergoing constant development, when its meaning, character and function are changing against the background of the processes of European integration and also due to the EU’s response to significant geopolitical events associated with increasing pressure from Russia. On one hand, the enlargement of the EU promised the growth of institutional support for cross-border cooperation and the gradual opening of borders for the Polish-Ukrainian neighbourhood, but at the same time it erected completely new borders – symbolic ones._x000D_
The EU and its geopolitics therefore show that although the importance of borders as barriers is gradually weakening and borders as physical barriers are disappearing in many places, on the contrary they are strengthening and at the same time being supplemented by new borders, often distributed in space invisibly and independently of border lines. These include various social and cultural boundaries, but also individual boundaries, created either institutionally for the purpose of securitization (e.g., visa regime or biometric and CCTV technologies) or from below, through various social phenomena such as perception, stereotypes, behaviour, interaction, etc._x000D_
The author will present an article focused on the social perception of the border in the Polish-Ukrainian borderland, in the regions and localities directly adjacent to the border and across the population that lives there. The study answers the question of how the European integration processes and the EU policy, resulting in changes of the meaning and function of borders, affected the everyday life of the population and their perceptions of both – the EU and its neighbour. _x000D_

Alexandra Dresler
Faculty of Science, Charles University

 
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1147 | | Basic principles of spatial development in post-war reconstruction of Ukraine | Olha Podushkina (1); Nadiia Antonenko (2); Igor Lialiuk (3); Daria Malchikova (4); Yuriy Palekha (5); Igor Pylypenko (6)

The Russian Federation’s military aggression against Ukraine led to significant destruction of the economic complex and infrastructure of our state, led to the largest forced migration of the population in the European space since World War II, and disrupted permanent connections between individual regions and settlements.
In these conditions, there is an urgent task for development of a spatial model of settlement as the basic scheme for determining the priority areas of urban and economic development, creation of a roadmap for the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine.
Today, the strategic planning of urban development is not sufficiently coordinated with the planning framework of the country, transport and logistics corridors and zones of ecological networks on all hierarchical spatial planning levels: a radical revision of the entire planning framework for post-war Ukraine is needed, observing ecological and Euro Integration imperatives.
Post-war Ukraine – a unique experimental space to develop a spatial model of settlement with effective logistical links and zoning of areas of priority economic and urban development.
Developing a new strategy of spatial development – an opportunity to overcome the preserved forms of post-Soviet mode of governance, to level out the permanence of corrupt economy and use limited financial and human resources with maximum efficiency.
A key link in this new strategy should be the development of international transport corridors, as well as centers of economic growth. 8 international transport corridors are planned to pass through the territory of Ukraine, including 4 “Cretan” corridors. In July 2022, the EU  included Ukrainian logistics routes in the Trans-European Transport Network. Areas of influence of international transport corridors are defined in the State Strategy of Regional Development for 2021-2027, which was approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
Comparing the areas of influence of international transport corridors on the centers of economic growth allows us to determine the zones of priority urban and economic development, which geographically form a kind of “Ukrainian banana”.
We consider the new spatial model of Ukraine’s settlement as a basis for the creation of a new General Planning Scheme of the territory of Ukraine, which will ensure its spatial integration into the European planning space and contribute to the sustainable development of our country in the post-war period. Presentation in english

Olha Podushkina (1); Nadiia Antonenko (2); Igor Lialiuk (3); Daria Malchikova (4); Yuriy Palekha (5); Igor Pylypenko (6)
(1) Owner and leading project architect of the architectural studio FPA-architect, head of the NA NSAU expert commission, head of the NA NSAU Commission on Copyright and Professional Ethics (Dnipro,Ukraine), (2) Senior Lecturer of the Department of Information Technologies in Architecture, Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Ph.D. (Kyiv, Ukraine)., (3) Architect, urbanist, Laureate of the State Prize for Architecture (Kharkiv, Ukraine)., (4) Professor of Geography and Ecology Department, Kherson State University, Doctor of Geography, Professor (Kherson, Ukraine), (5) Deputy Director for Research, Head of the GIS Center of State Enterprise “DIPROMISTO”, Doctor of Geography, Professor (Kyiv, Ukraine), (6) Professor, Department of Geography and Ecology, Kherson State University, Doctor of Geography, Professor (Kherson, Ukraine)

 
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