April 23-24, 2015

Advising Kryvyi Rih on industrial tourism

Participants of the industrial tourism forum in Kryvyi Rih with a flag
Participants of the industrial tourism forum in Kryvyi Rih with a flag

By 2015 we already knew how to turn a difficult and dangerous territory into a place people travel to from all over the world. Kryvyi Rih - a city of quarries, mines and steel mills - was only beginning to think about industrial tourism.

We were invited to the Industrial Tourism forum to share our experience: what to do first, what to avoid and which steps to take next.

But you cannot talk about industrial tourism without seeing it. They took us where tourists were later supposed to go: to the edge of a quarry, where a person looks like a grain of sand, and underground, into the Lenin mine - one of the deepest in the Kryvbas. We studied maps of future routes with local specialists, and underground, out of habit, we measured the radiation levels.

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