INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE „YOUTH ONLINE BOOKING SYSTEMS IN UKRAINE: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTIVES”

December, 5th, Saturday 09:30-11:00 – Registration of Participants
11:00-11:30 – Opening Greetings from: • The Cabinet of Ukraine • Ministry for Family, Youth and Sports • State Service for Tourism and Resorts • Tourist Organization of Poland 11:30-13:30 – Presentation «Online booking systems in Ukraine and worldwide»: Lorraine O’Reilly (HostelWorld, Ireland), Veronica Kuchynskaya (HostelsClub, Italy), Alexander Ivaneev (Uni-Hotels, Ukraine), Alexander Fainin (Toursnlodging, Ukraine) 13:30-14:30 – Lunch 14:30-15:30 – Workshops: • Methods of advancement and efficiency monitoring of online booking systems (moderator - Vyacheslav Konovalov, First Vice-President of UYTA) • Interaction of expansion between governmental, public and business structures in tourism (moderator – Svitlana Belyaeva, Vice-President of UYTA) • Youth hotels chains activity in Ukraine (moderator – Robert Hansen, Vice-President of UYTA) 15:30-16:00 – Lecture «Experience of online booking services in Poland» (representative of the Tourist Organization of Poland) 15:50-16:30 – Coffee break 16:30-18:00 – Presentation of hotels and hostels – participants of the conference and discussion «Problems and prospects of attraction of hotels and travel agencies to the online booking systems» (moderator – Alexander Fainin, President of UYTA) 18:00-19:00 – Dinner 19:00 – Transfer to hotel

December, 6th, Sunday

10:00-14:00 – Kyiv sightseeing tour and visit to hotels and hostels of the chain «Youth Tourism & Hostels of Ukraine®