On December 7, 2018 the forum ”Hotel and Restaurant Business in Sumy Region” was held in Sumy. It brought together about 100 owners, managers and experts of the hotel and restaurant business, who were interested in improving the quality and efficiency of services’ delivery, as well as in the development of tourist attraction of the Sumy region.
The organizer of the event is NGO “Council of Young Scientists» at the Sumy Business Information Center in Sumy within the framework of the EU4Business initiative with the grant support of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
The forum discussed issues of the hotel and restaurant industry such as:
– Prospects for development of hostels in Ukraine and development of the hotel industry in Sumy region;
– Secrets of effective selection, retention and motivation of staff;
– Professional ethics, safety and service standards;
– Eco-certification in hotel and restaurant business;
– Features of attracting financing in the hospitality industry.
Forum Speakers:
Yuriy Gladenko (Sumy), Head of Promotion and Tourism Department of Sumy Regional State Administration; Andrey Krivonos (Kyiv), Chairman of the Franchise Association Directorate; Yulia Kosenko (Odessa), expert practitioner, owner of the consulting company HoReCa Keys; Timur Khalilov (Kharkiv), Analyst at EBRD Small and Medium Business Finance and Development Group; Andriy Valovyi (Lviv), an independent expert in the field of HoReCa, manager of the international consulting company DKTeam, Development Director of culinary association “Western Chef Group”; Vladimir Kolesnik (Zaporozhye), owner of Dream Hostels; Igor Ponomarenko, manager of Sumy Reikartz Hotel; Taras Demkura, (Ternopil), Vice President for Regional Development of ICC Ukraine International Chamber of Commerce, Authorized Representative of the Ternopil Tourism Association.
A pleasant surprise for the participants of the forum was a masterclass on the preparation of pizza from the restaurant-pizzeria “Simbiosi” and a masterclass on the preparation of sushi from the restaurant of Pan-Asian cuisine “Yapi”.
A special highlight was the practical workshop on cooking Pan-Asian cuisine, held by Dmitry Yegupov (Dnipro), co-founder of the First Ukrainian Chefs Association.
Taras Savchenko, Head of Sumy Business Information Center, said: “Due to the large number of participants, namely the owners of the hotel and restaurant business, the forum is very useful. This is a platform for questions and answers from professional experts. A platform is an instrument for open discussion of directions and prospects of hotel and restaurant business as a component of development of tourist attraction of Sumy region”.
