Hospitality Helps Asks For Hotels To Provide Temporary Hotel Rooms For Ukrainian Refugees

Date: March 2022

Locations: Berlin, Bratislava, Brno, Bucharest, Budapest, Chisinau, Cluj-Napoca, Cracow, Debrecen, Katowice, Lublin, Munich, Prague, Vienna, Warsaw…and elsewhere!

What did they say: We connect families on the run from the war in Ukraine with hotels around Europe that want to help and provide free stays.
Main photo: The plight of Ukrainian refugees

The #HospitalityHelps initiative has one single goal: providing temporary hotel accommodation to Ukrainian residents, who are forced to leave their homes as a result of the war.

To join the initiative, hotels can contribute hotel room nights by clicking here

We connect families on the run from the war in Ukraine with hotels around Europe that want to help and provide free stays.

• Free stays in hotels.
• Maximum five nights.
• Currently focused on key cities in Austria, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania and Slovakia – with more to come shortly.
• Requirements: Ukrainian passport (alternatively proof of residency in Ukraine) at check-in.

The iniative has been put togther by 4Hoteliers, using Hotel Swaps to co-ordinate their efforts.

Another international campaign has been launched by Stay the Night calling on hospitality companies to help Ukrainian refugees by hosting those fleeing conflict. The UN estimates that over 100,000 Ukrainians have already been displaced as a result of the Russian invasion and that number is set to grow in the coming weeks and months.

In response to this unfolding crisis, the Hospitality for Ukraine campaign has been launched by marketing agency Stay the Night and content creator Kash Bhattacharya from the BudgetTraveller.

The campaign is calling on hotels, hostels and other accommodation providers to open their doors to Ukrainian refugees.

Companies can register here to join a database which will then be published on a dedicated platform and shared with relevant organisations supporting refugees on the ground.

Feeding Ukraine

World Central Kitchen, the nonprofit food relief organization operated by chef Jose Andrés, announced that it would be on the ground in Poland within hours of the Ukraine invasion. The organisation is currently situated near a “24-hour pedestrian border crossing” in Poland, and feeding thousands of Ukrainians as they flee the country. In Korczowa, the organization teamed up with food truck Oh My Ramen, which is operated by two Ukrainians who live in Poland, to serve hot meals at an accommodation center set up to house refugees, some of whom walked hours after fleeing their homes. Upon arriving in the Polish village of Medyka, World Central Kitchen served upwards of 4,000 meals in just 18 hours.

World Central Kitchen has also set up shop in Odesa, Ukraine, partnering with chef Aleksander Yourz of Yourz Space Bistro. There, Yourz and World Central Kitchen volunteers are preparing thousands of meals for people unable to leave Odesa, along with those fighting against Russian troops. World Central Kitchen is currently in the process of dispatching volunteers to Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, and Hungary, all near Ukraine, to provide additional support.

And our friends from the Meetings sector in Europe have done their bit…MEETING NEEDS has this week agreed to donate £10,000 to The Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal organised by the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). More than a million refugees have left homes and jobs and are trying to get out of the country, carrying only the clothes and belongings they can carry.

The cash will be used for essential hygiene supplies, food and blankets. £10,000 can provide essential hygiene supplies for 1,000 people for one month, blankets for 800 families or feed 200 families for a month.

Meeting Needs chair Jason Wilcock said, “The DEC is forecasting more than four million Ukraine citizens will be displaced and most of these will be women and children so we decided to move swiftly with an extraordinary meeting and make an early donation on behalf of the events industry, so that funds can be delivered quickly by the committee where it is most needed.”

THPT Comment: No doubt there are/will be more iniatives being launched by hotel chains and agencies…Bless them for stepping up in another world crisis, as we saw with the Covid pandemic

First Seen: 4Hoteliers and Hospitality Net

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