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Tourists from Saudi Arabia have flooded Ukraine. Already 14,000 of them have come since the start of the year — four times more than in 2020. According to Ukraine’s Minister of Culture and Information Policy Oleksandr Tkachenko, tourists from the Persian Gulf give Ukraine $32 mn per month, giving Ukraine’s tourism business a fighting chance to revive after the global pandemic. Why this inrush and what should Ukraine do to keep it up?

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