Under the World Tourist Organization, Tourist and Health Resort State Agency, Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine patronage in Kyiv was held XXI International Tourist Exposition “UKRAINE’2014” / UITM – Ukraine International Travel Market”. This is the greatest event of autumn-winter season for tourist business professionals.

Students of Department of Economics attended the exposition together with of Chair of Tourism and Business Hotel-Restaurant teachers, Candidates of Economic Sciences, assistant professors R. Kozhuhivska and I. Povoroznyuk. They had the possibility to communicate with national and international tourist market professionals who announced new tourist trends, presented route programmes and bonus schemes, led master classes in methods of tourist production selling and selection of audience under the programme Match Making specifics.

Our students and teachers attended scientific seminar “Postman” entitled “The ways of tourist companies’ audience and clients in the Internet searching”. The participators got to know a lot about tourists exclusive conceptions, organization, booking and payment forms, insurance services assignment conditions, visas and tourist documents delivering, etc. At the “UITM” – 2014 exhibition were present more than 100 tourist companies, national tourist organizations from many countries of the world. Exhibition geography included Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Greece, Dominican Republic, Israel, India, Italy, Cyprus, Lithuania, Malta, Palestine, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, USA, Thailand, Turkey, France and Chile.

During “UKRAINE’2014” / UITM – Ukraine International Travel Market”exposition USPU students could get acquainted with new tourist industry tendencies, important professional aspects of tourist branch; acquire practical skills in tourist enterprises attraction increase, tourist products advance, and regional tourist products popularization.