KYIV, Sept 11 – During his working visit to Spain, Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba and Secretary General of the UN World Tourism Organization Zurab Pololikashvili met as Ukraine has been seeking the organization’s help in increasing tourism to the country.

"They paid main attention to the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for the tourism industry, its adaptation to new realities. Kuleba noted that the pandemic has not only obvious negative consequences for tourism, but also unexpected new opportunities. In particular, in Ukraine, such circumstances gave impetus for domestic tourism, aroused people's interest in traveling inside their own country," the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Friday morning.