A memorandum on volunteer solidarity tourism.

During the war the tourism industry looked for ways to be useful to the country. One answer was volunteer solidarity tourism: a guest does not just visit but helps people affected by the war.

A working meeting of industry players took place at our place at 11 Andriivskyi Descent, supported by USAID and coordinated by the Echo of Destruction initiative. Tour operators, the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Kyiv Regional State Administration, charity foundations and state and military bodies came. All of them declared their participation in a Memorandum on network cooperation to protect cultural heritage through solidarity and volunteer tourism.

There was no electricity and no phone signal, and an air-raid alert was announced. But people came. Our volunteer center provided a generator, and the Dronarium drone operators school a Starlink.