“Saudi tourists help revive Ukraine’s Covid-hit travel industry,”

reads an article from Lviv by Spain’s Efe news agency. Spending in Ukraine by tourists from Saudi Arabia and neighboring Gulf countries his $25 million in June and probably $50 million in July, says Anton Taranenko, executive director of Visit Ukraine. In the first month after Saudi airline Flynas launched directs to Kyiv and Lviv, 14,000 Saudis visited Ukraine.