Vox Populi with Sofia Kochmar: Did you have to change your vacation plans because of the hryvnia’s devaluation?

Published April 29, 2015 at 8:56 pm

Kateryna Korniychuk from Kyiv says that her summmer vacation plans were affected by the hryvnia devaluation.

Photo by Anastasia Vlasova

Kateryna Korniychuk

artist

"The dollar has really influenced my choice of vacation destination. My family will not travel abroad this year. I understood that a long time ago. We will stay somewhere in the Carpathians and support green tourism. People are very hospitable there, and the nature is incredible. Frankly, we don’t have a choice – vacations abroad became three times more expensive."

Olena Ilina

student

”This summer I am going to find a job that would allow me to rest too. Maybe somewhere in Odesa. Recently when I was in Prague I realized that all the prices increased three times. In earlier trips I could buy some souvenirs, but now I had money only for transport, food and tours.”

Volodymyr Melnik

entrepreneur

Volodymyr Melnik

entrepreneur

“The dollar has no influence on my vacation at all, because I always travel inside Ukraine – to western Ukraine, or the Carpathians or Odesa. I haven’t yet looked for a particular place, but I hope prices there didn’t rise more than 20 percent.”

Sergii Tretiak

pensioner

“Rest is sacred, so the dollar rate can’t cancel it. We are going to Turkey on May 18, and after we will travel to France. Usually in winter we go skiing somewhere. But I’m a renter and my income is in dollars.”

Natalia Ivanova

manager of tourism

“I planned to go to Spain, but now the prices closed the border for me. I will make some economical choice – Truskavets, for example. I work in the tourism sector, so I see that trips abroad decreased significantly.”