Association of Hotel Unions and Hotels of Ukrainian Cities

  • Address:
    3a, Gonty str., c. Kyiv, 04112, Ukraine
  • Telephone:
    +38(044) 568-43-96, (096) 563-05-78
Association of Hotel Unions and Hotels of Ukrainian Cities was founded in 1990 for protecting rights and interests of Ukrainian enterprises of hotel industry. From creation till now Association is headed by Academician, Actual Member of Academies of Building and Tourism of Ukraine, Deserved worker of the sphere of services of Ukraine, Honoured Professor of Kyiv University of Tourism, Economics and Law of Ukraine, State Academy of Public Utilities of Ukraine, General Director-Chairman of the Board Mykola I. Yevdokymenko.
11 municipal hotels are Association incorporators. Today Association comprises almost 200 hotels and 60 enterprises of hotel business.
It includes leading hotel enterprises of different departments and forms of property: Natsionalny Hotel Complex, CJSC «President-Hotel «Kyivsky», OJSC «Premier Palace Hotel», hotel complexes «Kyiv», «Salute», Hotel «Ukraine» (Kyiv), hotels «Kozatsky» (Kyiv), «Kharkiv» (Kharkiv), «Brigantine» (Kherson), «Dnieper» (Cherkassy), «Druzhba» (Donetsk), Academy of Public Utilities (Kharkiv), Kyiv National University of Trade and Economics, Kyiv University of Tourism, Economics and Law, other hotels and business corporations offering services to the hotels.
Association is a public voluntarily association comprising 170 collectives of enterprises (associations, establishments and companies) and other organizations, related to hotel industry.
From the first days of activity, Association has been summarizing and passing experience of work of leading hotels, offering methodical and legal assistance, actively participating in development of legislative and normative documents for hotel industry. By participation of Association there were developed and approved «Rules of using hotels and analogical facilities of accommodation and granting of hotel services in Ukraine», Ukrainian standard of categorizing of hotels, primary accounting forms and instruction on their placing, «Recommendations of privatization and creation of joint-stock companies on the base of hotels», norms of technical equipping of hotel suits, identical prices on accommodation for Ukrainian and foreign citizens.
Association actively participates in work of other professional and public organizations. For the first time the Commission for development of tourism and hotel industry in Ukraine has been created in Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Association – its collective member); specialists and state public figures enters its structure.
By initiative of Association management they created the section «Building and reconstruction of tourist and hotel objects» in Academy of Building of Ukraine. Today the section makes 34 academicians and 14 members-correspondents.
Conducting of international exhibitions of hotel economy, annual conferences of workers of hotel and restaurant economy «Industry of hospitality» has been started due to the direct participating of Mykola Yevdokymenko and Association.
Association together with State Service of Tourism and Resorts of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine, Central Committee of Trade Unions of workers of the branch conduct review-contest for the best hotel enterprise with high-quality service of visitors with rewarding labour collectives honoured diplomas, money prizes and memorable cups.
By offer of Association management and presentations of local authorities 70 workers got Rank «Deserved worker of the sphere of services of Ukraine» and 15 workers awarded orders, including three full holders of Order «For merits».
Association management conducts rewarding of the best workers of hotels by diploma and rank «Honoured Member of Association of Hotel Unions and Hotels of Ukrainian Cities» with handing sign, diploma and certification enable to live double in any hotel during two days free by agreement with Association.
Since 2000 Association has been working with organizers and takes part in important professional measures.
Association supports international relations with professional associations of hotels of other countries, organizes conferences and business meetings, tours by Ukraine and abroad.
Single in Ukraine Professional Magazine «Hotel and Restaurant Business» has been publishing and actively operating in Association for already five years.
Future plans include activation of work on studying experience of foreign colleagues and development of cooperation with professional organizations of Poland, Turkey, Russia, Spain, Germany, USA and China. At the same time Association hopes on effective cooperation with International Hotel and Restaurant Association and Balkan Hotel Association Alliance.