The International Scientific and Practical Forum «Hospitality Industry: State, Development Trends and Prospects in the Conditions of War» takes place at the Department of Tourism, Viacheslav Chornovil Institute of Sustainable Development, Lviv Polytechnic.
On Thursday, April 20, 2023, there were seminars 2, 3 ‒ «Hotel business in the wartime period: realities, problems, and forecasts» and «Restaurant and gastronomic trends of the world and Ukraine». They were moderated by Yaroslava Moskviak, Doctor of Economics, Associate Professor of the Department of Tourism.
Reports were made by:
- Vsevolod Polishchuk (restaurant consultant and marketer, creator of various restaurant concepts, Lviv, Ukraine) ‒ «Trends in the hotel and restaurant business, and how to check if they are really trends?»;
- Heiko Schuler (CEO of FAV Service gGmbH, Gotha, Germany) and Denys Nevinskyi (Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Director of the German-Ukrainian Educational Center, Lviv, Ukraine) ‒ Center of Excellence for Gastronomy and the Hotel Industry. Future and development;
- Nataliia Semenova (general manager of the resort complex «Rixos-Prykarpattia», Truskavets, Ukraine) – «Work of the resort complex during the war»;
- Paolo Corvo (Associate Professor at the Department of General Sociology, the University of Gastronomic Sciences, specialist in sustainable gastronomic and wine tourism, Pollenzo, Italy) – «Activities and experience of the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo in the field of gastronomic and wine tourism. Ideas for the reconstruction of the Ukrainian tourist and food market after the victory»;
- Iryna Mahaletska (Candidate of Technical Sciences, Head of the Reikartz Hotel Group (Reikartz Hotel Management LLP), Lviv, Ukraine) ‒ «Peculiarities of Reikartz Hotel Group’s activity in Ukraine during martial law»;
- Anzhelika Boiko (Director of LLC «MBM-POLE» (Pole restaurant in Vynnyky), Lviv, Ukraine) ‒ «Operation of establishments in the western part of Ukraine in war conditions: realities and prospects of the industry»;
- Mykhailo Sheveliuk (head of School of Vocational Training LLC ‒ HorecaSchool (School of Service), development manager of Hotel Shveitsarskyi and Restaurant Valentino, Lviv, Ukraine) ‒ «Historical 4* hotel in Lviv: history of development, work during Covid -19 and in conditions of war»;
- Maria Paska (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, professor, head of the Department of Hotel and Restaurant Business, Bobersky Lviv State University of Physical Culture, academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine from the Department of Biology, Lviv, Ukraine) ‒ «Modern trends in the development of the restaurant business in Lviv Oblast».