Why Lviv?
8 reasons to visit
Lviv
1st reason – HISTORY
(must feel)
Mentioned in 1256 for the first
time
Was incorporated in
6 different states
2nd reason – LOCATION
(must imagine)
an advantageous geographic
location
DISTANCE TO EURO-2012 CITIES:
Warsaw
382 km
Kyiv
524 km
Wroclaw
598 km
Poznan
683 km
Gdansk
723 km
Kharkiv
1.009 km
Donetsk
1,178 km
70 km away from the Polish
border
3rd reason – ARCHITECTURE
(must see)
Member of UNESCO World Heritage
list since 1998
700 monuments (55% of all
Ukrainian ones)
4th reason – FOR THE FIRST TIME
(must wonder)
Pr. Rudolf Weigl was the first in the
world to invent the vaccine against
typhus
the first oil lamp in the world
was invented in Lviv
5th reason – CULTURAL CAPITAL
(must visit)
Lviv - Ukraine’s cultural capital
(research by the State Tourism)
Lviv is on the list of top ten cities
worth visiting at weekends
(Financial Times)
5th reason – CULTURAL CAPITAL
(must visit)
100 churches of various
affiliations
60 museums
5th reason – CULTURAL CAPITAL
(must visit)
more than 100 festivals annually
held in Lviv
from jazz to the chocolate
festival
6th reason – PROMISING CENTRE
(must use)
on the list of top 30 promising
IT centres in the world (KPMG)
Lviv has 38 universities and
170,000 students
7th reason – OWN STRATEGY
(must look)
Development strategy (In
cooperation with well-known
Monitor Group)
Two major clusters: tourism and
IT
7th reason – OWN STRATEGY
(must look)
Lviv-based companies developed
movies software (e. g. Hulk,
Spiderman)
1 mln. tourists, growing by 40%
annually (tourists from Poland,
Germany, Austria, the USA, Russia)
8th reason - EURO 2012
(must come)
a new stadium with 33,000 seats
is about to be completed
a new airport terminal (transfer
capacity – 1,000 passengers per
hour)
8th reason - EURO 2012
(must come)
More than 50% of all the main
roads have been reconstructed
More than 10 new hotels
So why should you come to Lviv?
Visit Lviv’s events
With friends, family, partners
Combine work and leisure...
Lviv is the best place for a business
forum or a partners meeting
• 37 conference centres,
73 conference halls and training
classes (total capacity of 6,000
people)
• 7 four-star, 8 three-star, and
16 other hotels. In total 8,000
beds
• The full list www.congress.lviv.ua
Why?
Why business in Lviv?
• Modern European city
• High qualified human
resources with competitive
wages
• Dynamic Economic
Development
• Developed relaxation and
unique recreation area
• Positive FDI history
• Lviv is open to the world (a
lot of opportunities)
High qualified human resources with
competitive wages
• Lviv has been recognized to
posses the largest human
capital in Ukraine (according
to FORBES)
• 4th position among large
European cities and regions in
the rank “Human resources”
(Financial Times)
• 170 000 students in 38 higher
education institutions
• Labour cost is one of the
lowest among Eastern
European Cities
• Flexible labour code
Comfortable geographic position in
the centre of Europe
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160 km to Europe’s geographic
centre
Closeness to the capitals of Europe:
Warsaw – 400 km, Budapest – 630
km, Vienna – 720 km
Gateway from Ukraine to EU – A3
and A5 international transport routes
Regional railway connection centre
(Germany, Poland, Austria, Slovakia,
Hungary, Czech Republic, Latvia)
Freeway Lviv - Krakovets (84 km
extension of A3 corridor) is under
construction
High-speed European standard
railroad Lviv – Krakow is in the plan
(86 km)
Dynamic Economic Development
• Economic Development and
Increasing city Competitiveness
till 2015
• 3rdranked leading IT centre in
Ukraine Business Services
(BS) and Tourism are city higher
priority dynamically
developing clusters
• For the last 3 years the quantity
of tourists increases annually by
40% (today it is 1 million per
year)
• 59 % of citizens express a desire
to do their own business
Developed relaxation and unique
recreation area
• 49 hotels (7 four-star hotels)
• wide range of restaurants,
cafes, night clubs and other
places of entertainments
• 8 theatres, 20 art-galleries
• Lviv region is recognized for its
resorts and sanatoriums,
known all over the world
balneological resort
Truskavets
• winter vacations in Ukrainian
Carpathians with European
standards ski-resorts (Bukovel,
Slavske, Dragobrat)
Positive FDI history
• 3rd position in the FDI
involvement rating and in the
economic efficiency category
(Financial Times)
• Over USD 200 mln. in 2008 and
USD 180 mln. in 2009 of FDI
• Country-leaders on FDI
involvement in Lviv (2009):
Poland, Switzerland, USA, Austria,
Canada (general amount of
investments – USD 170,5 mln.)
• Nearly 800 registered companies
with foreign investments
(Auchan, Metro, Pricewaterhouse
Coopers, Austria Airlines, Cargo
Partner, Energie AG, REWE)
A lot of opportunities
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Strategy Aim: in 10-15 years to
build a modern stable and
diversified economy open to
external experience and capital
City authority follows friendly and
transparent policy in cooperation
with potential foreign investors and
is ready to provide assistance in
investment projects support
Lviv successfully cooperates with
international financial institutions
(EBRD, World Bank, KfW, GTZ,
USAID)
3 consulates general and
14 honourable consulates
Lviv has 16 sister cities in 11
countries
Where to invest?
• Business town around the
new stadium for EURO
2012 Championship
• Innovative projects in
biotechnology,
nanotechnology, and
information and
communication
technologies
• Land plots and industrial
areas in Lviv and Lviv’s
region
Business town around the new
EURO 2012 Championship stadium
• Necessary investments:
EUR 1.5-2 billion
• Key indicators - Earnings
excluding VAT - more than
EUR 20 million after the
3rd year of operation
• Total market capitalization
– EUR 5 billion after
6 years of operation
Innovative projects
• In biotechnology,
nanotechnology, and
information and
communication
technologies
• Projects of the Institute
of Cell Biology, National
University "Lviv
Polytechnic" and Lviv
National Ivan Franko
University
Land plots and industrial areas
• A land of 0.05 ha to
4 ha of various purpose
(shopping, warehouses,
administrative and
manufacturing,
housing, parking) in Lviv
and Lviv region
• "Syhnivka" (6 plots - 50
ha in total), "Riasne-2"
(5 plots – 60 ha), "North
East" (5 plots – 20 ha)
Find out more about Lviv
• About the city’s economy:
www.investinlviv.com
• About tourism and the city:
www.lviv.travel
• Lviv City Council official web-site:
www.city-adm.lviv.ua
Thank you for your attention!