Tourist visitors to Lviv fell by 10% last year, to 2.5 million

Tourist visitors to Lviv fell by 10% last year, to 2.5 million, reports the city’s Tourism Department. As Ukrainians visited new destinations in the EU, the foreign portion of visitors to Lviv rose to 63%. With direct flights to 25 EU cities, the portion of visitors arriving by plane increased to 31%. Other modes were: train – 48%; car –11.8%; and bus – 11.6%. Top foreign groups were: Poland — 18.3%; Belarus – 6.6%; Turkey – 6.2%; Germany – 5.4%; and UK – 3%.