World-known Askania-Nova is not only a unique nature reserve with rare plants and animals from the Red List, but first and foremost an urban-type settlement with population of over five thousand people. In 2017, Askania was visited by more than 100 thousand tourists, but the town did not earn anything at all. Vitaliy Svintsitsky, head of the AH, told why tourists tend to avoid the hromada.

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