The Ukrainian conflict has provoked a tourism crisis in the Baltic States

ETC: the Baltic states are experiencing a tourism crisis amid the conflict in Ukraine

The Ukrainian conflict has provoked a crisis of inbound tourism in the Baltic States. This is stated in a new report by the European Tourism Commission (ETC).

Based on the statistics of the tourist flow, a number of European countries have lost the image of a safe place to relax against the background of the current military crisis, analysts concluded. As the conflict escalated, tourist activity subsided in Poland, the Czech Republic and Finland, but especially in the Baltic States. Thus, in Latvia, the number of international arrivals decreased by 34 percent — such an indicator has not been recorded in the country since the coronavirus pandemic. In Estonia, the number of international arrivals decreased by 15 percent, and in Lithuania — by 14 percent.

The tourism sector of the Cyprus economy suffered the most as a result of the fighting — the country completely lost the Ukrainian market and lost 90 percent of the Russian one. Bulgaria was left without these two priority areas of inbound tourism.

Earlier it was reported about the increased interest of Russians in traveling in Siberia and the Far East. The tourist flow has grown most noticeably in Kemerovo and Yakutsk.

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