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In the first half of 2026, Ukraine recorded more than 4 million tourist overnight stays subject to the tourist tax. Odesa Oblast ranked seventh among the regions in terms of the number of overnight stays, while Mykolaiv Oblast ranked 19th.
According to the press service of the State Agency for Tourism Development of Ukraine, the number of overnight stays subject to the tourist tax in the first half of the year increased by 12.7% compared to the same period in 2025. Local budgets received 186.6 million hryvnias from these stays.
Traditionally, the highest number of such overnight stays was recorded in Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Zakarpattia, and Kyiv regions—together, these five regions accounted for 71% of the national total.
Odesa Oblast ranked seventh: over six months, 214,258 tourist overnight stays were recorded there, which is 25.1% more than a year earlier. Moreover, the growth was even more pronounced in the second quarter—28%—with the number of overnight stays reaching 155,782.
Odessa itself ranked among the top five communities in Ukraine in terms of the number of tourist overnight stays in the second quarter. The city recorded 104,510 overnight stays, which is 19.5% more than in April–June 2025.
Tourist traffic also grew in certain communities within the Odesa region. In particular, the Berezivska community saw a 746% increase in overnight stays compared to the second quarter of last year.
Mykolaiv Oblast ranked 19th based on the results of the first half of the year. The region recorded 29,808 overnight stays, which is 10.2% more than during the same period in 2025. In the second quarter, the figure stood at 17,796 overnight stays, with a 10.6% increase.
At the same time, Mykolaiv has become one of the prominent centers for foreign tourism. In the second quarter, the city recorded 4,524 overnight stays by foreign visitors who paid the tourist tax—a 367.4% increase compared to the previous year. Based on this figure, Mykolaiv ranked fourth among Ukrainian municipalities.
The Kherson region is not listed separately in this ranking, nor is Kherson among the top 20 communities by number of overnight stays in the second quarter.
At the same time, these figures should not be taken as a complete indicator of tourist flow. DART statistics account only for overnight stays at temporary lodging facilities that are subject to the tourist tax and report the corresponding payments. Consequently, they may not include tourists who stayed in rented apartments, private homes, or other accommodations where the tourist tax was not reported. In addition, a single person who stayed at a hotel for several nights is counted as multiple overnight stays in these statistics. Therefore, the figure reflects the volume of taxable hotel accommodations rather than the actual number of tourists in the region.
In total, 8,490 establishments subject to the tourist tax—temporary lodging facilities that reported the tax—were operating in Ukraine during the second quarter. A year ago, there were 7,898.
The largest number of new establishments added during the quarter were in the Polianytsia community, Shatsk, Lviv, Odesa, and Yaremche. In Odesa, the number of such establishments increased by 30 compared to the second quarter of 2025.
From January through July 2026, the budgets of communities in the Odesa region received 8.6 million hryvnias in tourist tax revenue. This is 19%, or 1.4 million hryvnias, more than during the same period last year.
