Culture, leisure, sport and tourism

 

The section reports statistics on cultural and arts institutions, and publication of printed editions. It also shows statistics on sanatoria and health resorts, leisure and sport and tourism facilities in Ukraine.

Cultural institutions comprise theatres, philharmonic societies, television and radio broadcasting companies, cinemas, publishing houses, museums, libraries, club institutions, circuses, parks for recreation and leisure, schools of aesthetic education (elementary specialised art educational institutions).

Cinemas are institutions for public viewing of films (cinemas, urban and rural film projectors, video halls and video units).

Exhibition centres are institutions whose main activity is to organise exhibitions, and provide services related to the design and conduct of exhibitions (fairs). Exhibition centers should employ qualified staff and have relevant material and technical base (special exhibition areas and equipment). They can lease these areas and equipment for exhibitions and fairs to be held.

Organisers of exhibitions are enterprises that according to their statute are engaged in the design of exhibitions on the budget, commercial or mixed basis.

Exhibitions are activities associated with demonstration of products and services to be promoted on the domestic and international market with the purpose of studying the situation on the market.

Fairs are activities directly connected with trade (retail or wholesale) that are carried out in a specific place at the fixed dates.

Collective accommodation facilities   are accommodation facilities whish provide places for overnight halt in the room or other premises. Collective accommodation facilities are split into hotels and similar accommodation facilities  (hotels, motels, hostels, camping sites, tourist camps, other places for hot-bedding) and specialised accommodation facilities (sanatoria, boarding houses with care, prophylactic sanatoria, annual childrens health facilities, child centers,  houses, boarding houses, recreation camps and other recreation institutions).

Sanatoria and rest institutions with medical care are medical and prophylactic institutions equipped with beds for patients undergoing rehabilitation treatment, mainly on the basis of a healing natural environment. These institutions are specialised and can be either for one ailment or multi-purpose. The institutions also have beds equipped with necessary supplies for the month of their maximum use.

Rest facilities and leisure houses are institutions designed to provide rest for the population and may include food and lodging or lodging only. These facilities may be available to the population all year or seasonally. Places are reported for the month of maximum use.

Child care centers for health improvement and recreation are permanently or temporarily active centers specially organised or adapted to be intended for rehabilitation, recreation, child development; they have a special location, logistics, staff and equipment allowing to provide the services necessary for health improvement and recreation of children. Child sanatoriums, child centers and countryside centers for health improvement and recreation are the child health improvement institutions. Day care camps, child care centers and tent camps are part of child recreation facilities.

 Sports school is a component of system for physical training and sports that gives knowledge, shapes and secures individual’s needs in creative self-actualisation of sporting capabilities and skills of children and the young in order to train sportsmen of high qualification.

Tourists are persons who visit places located at a distance from their usual places of residence during a period that does not exceed one year. The trips that tourists take are for pleasure and vacation, treatment, sports and health improvement, visiting friends and relatives, settling business matters, etc.

Excursion participants are persons who take organised tours in Ukraine. The duration of tours should not exceed 24 hours. An excursion trip ought to be conducted by a guide who shows people the specially tailored way to particular places and explains their points of interest in order to get them acquainted with historical, cultural, natural monuments, museums, significant sites, etc.