Kyiv is a great place, but it does not yet have a developed tourism industry. As for venues, the only indoor venue of even vaguely appropriate size is the Sports Palace, a Soviet heap. That's Kyiv Post its conclusion after a year of preparations for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest. “Kyiv started the countdown to the Eurovision Song Contest with some disadvantages.”
“Tickets have been hard to come by for Western European fans who hoped to attend the event, and Kyiv still doesn�t have enough adequate hotels (…) while some of the hotels it does have are being accused of price-gouging”, the online newspaper wrote.
“In the face of all this, we ask for forbearance from Eurovision Song Contest visitors. Getting Kyiv�s tourist infrastructure up to scratch in less than a year would have been a Herculean task under any circumstances. It was made harder by the fact that Kyiv hosted, during that year, a long-running cataclysmic political upheaval”, was the conclusion of Kyiv Post, describing the Ukrainian capital as a very promising 'work in progress'. “We suspect visitors will have a great time here, but if they run into minor hassles, then all we can say is, come back in a couple of years. You�ll be delighted by the changes”, was the editor's advice.
