Industrial tourism

Industrial tourism is an industry that has been actively developing globally for more than 50 years, thanks to the restoration of old plants and factories, turning them into modern creative space zones.

Examples of industrial heritage are:Manchester's old industrial zone (UK) and the Bergslagen metallurgical center (Sweden), which are visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists every year.

However, industrial tourism is still underestimated in Ukrainian post-industrial cities and towns.

As of 2024, there are industrial zones in every region of Ukraine that, due to economic inefficiency, have lost their relevance and are not attractive for investment in restoring their industrial capacity.

Insufficient development of industrial tourism and renovation of abandoned factories owned by communities significantly limits their development potential. The comprehensive development of post-industrial zones in communities is not only about attracting tourists, but also about creating new creative and research platforms, hubs for communication and finding new solutions. This helps reduce the economic pressure on communities to maintain such facilities, and increases their social and investment attractiveness.

The Zdolbuniv community has significant potential for the development of a cultural industrial complex, as Zdolbuniv was the industrial center of the region 100 years ago. A railway junction and a cement plant built by the Czech brothers Jelinnik in the late nineteenth century, along with a convenient logistical location (12 km from Rivne, 7 km from the Kyiv-Chop international highway and a railway junction that connects Khmelnytskyi, Lviv, Volyn and Rivne regions), create unique prerequisites for the city's inclusion in the atlas of cultural and historical sites of Rivne region.

We will make every effort to realize this potential.