Ukrainian Incentives DMC was nominated as Ukraine’s Leading DMC again 😊
We won this World Travel Award in 2020-2021 and Ukraine was not playing in 2022.
Help us to get this award in 3d time:

https://www.worldtravelawards.com/award-ukraines-leading-destination-management-company-2023

And we’ve been nominated as Ukraine’s Best MICE Organiser 2023.
Support us by voting for us at World MICE Awards:

https://worldmiceawards.com/award/ukraine-best-mice-organiser/2023

Is MICE in Ukraine lying down?

Check some fresh observations from Travel & Event life in Ukraine during the war in Linked In group with almost daily posts, how we handle current situation in our business

Link here 

Our director Marina Antonyuk tells some up-to-date details on MICE industry of Ukraine in podcast for MICEboard

You can see news from UA everywhere, but mostly about general situation about Ukraine and frontline, however each industry has its own insights and this was our main topic in talk with Peter Cramer recently

Listen podcast: https://soundcloud.com/miceboard/miceboard-podcast-folge-48

MICE Board about solidarity & volunteer tourism https://www.miceboard.com/solidaritaets-und-freiwilligentourismus-in-der-ukraine/  

Our page at MICE Board: https://www.miceboard.com/datingservice/59649/ukrainian-incentives/

We continue to make solidarity events to support communities in Ukraine to build a better future.

Together with Network of development of Solidarity & Volunteer tourism we visited Yablunivka village in Kyiv region. Here mushroom & hazelnuts farm became a great support center during full-scale war. They delivered 60 tons of mushrooms in first months of war for free to feed warriors and also distributed mushrooms among locals for free.  

Here we participated all together in:

-> preparing and packing ingredients for dry soups for Armed Forces of Ukraine with careful guidance by BeeTa Страви Переможців.
Ingredients, local fresh greens: parsley, dill, leek were brought by local people from own gardens. Mushrooms from this farm. All together we packed 3500 portions of dry borsch and dry mushroom soup.
-> weaving camouflage nets for the frontline
-> procurement of spring water for the Nikopol community
–> purchase of dry feed for animals for a shelter, where some evacuated animals from the Kherson region were placed
-> making a solidarity mural “Yabluniv Volunteer Ark” from an ordinary water tank
-> create Victory angels from straw during art master-class

As a bonus we learned a lot about mushrooms during farm tour and enjoyed outdoor lunch with locally grown products: grilled mushrooms and vegetables, buckwheat with mushrooms and local hazelnuts (never thought about adding nuts to buckwheat before, but it is really great), borsch and local traditional pies (karavai).

Buying services from local craft producers, art masters, small F&B services, you support local communities a lot. And it is very sustainable. Plus it creates great atmosphere, so everyone can relax, recharge and enjoy the moments of life despite of everything. Despite of loud today night, full of explosions. Despite news, full of death. Such moments gives power to move forward. We know, what we are fighting for. For Life, where local  communities live happily together in prosperity, respecting everyone around.

Ukrainian Incentives team were exhibiting this year at IMEX in Frankfurt.

IMEX is one of main important for MICE and Meeting Industry exhibitions.

Main thing for us about this IMEX2023 that tourism is changing its role.

It’s not a quick process, but it is already unstoppable. Travellers and companies and corporates, who arrange MICE events – they all want to create legacy. People and companies want make a positive impact.

And this is the message, which Ukraine brought this year at IMEX.

2 cities, represented at IMEX this year: Lviv and Kyiv.

LVIV moto can be seen on the booth: let’s create legacy together. And it is a very deep meaning there.

Lviv opened 2 centers for rehabilitation of Ukrainian warriors, where they put prostheses. And it is really HUGE need in it with everything, what is going on at the frontline in Ukraine.

One of them, UNBROKEN is for 10000 warriors and it is already highly overloaded.

Medical experts from around the world come to volunteer from several days to several months in this center. So if you know medical experts, who can be interested abd can help, please, spread the word.

KYIV region is a pilot for solidarity & volunteer tourism, which is new way of responsible travel, when people come NOT ONLY for see beautiful destination (which Ukraine definitely is), but also to show solidarity with Ukrainian people and help communities and territories, suffered from war.

This was the topic of our presentation at IMEX. If you missed it, but want to know more, you can find information here:
https://dmc.ukrainian-incentives.com.ua/en/volunteer-tourism/

Important now to tell MICE planners and corporate clients for this way of meaningful travel, so they can start thinking now in order to come to Ukraine tomorrow.

Seems that’s it’s only days since we all were on the wave of Eurovision Song Contest and voted for favourite songs. Liverpool made an absolute great job, hosting Eurovision-2023 on behalf of Ukraine.
Ukrainian song and participation was very symbolic for us with song “Heart of Steel”, telling the story about Azovstal and Ukraine with global message “Open Your Heart for Ukraine”.

Ukrainian Incentives is very proud to be part of this project of “Brand Ukraine”, which represented Ukraine at Ukrainian village in Liverpool with great activities:
– Interactive installations and photozone Ukraine.ua with 37000 visitors, willing to know about Ukrainian culture

– tasting Ukrainian traditional dishes, including famous borsch, vareniki and chebureki from Crimean tatars, native people of Crimea
– digital campaigns “Open Your Heart for Ukraine” and “theUnityWave”

We’ve arranged logistical support for Brand Ukraine team and very proud of our cooperation!

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