International Online Seminar in partnership with the University of Cagliari (Italy) "Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Pandemic Impacts and Regulation"

On April,14, 2021, the International Online Seminar "Tourism and Hospitality Industry: Pandemic Impacts and Regulation" took place on the ZOOM platform (working language - English), organized by the Faculty of Commerce and Tourism Industry, which was attended by representatives of Italy, Spain and the Republic of Belarus. 
The Belarusian State Economic University was represented by Vice - Rector Olga Morozevich, the Deputy Dean of Commerce and Tourism Industry Faculty Yulia Shavruk, the Head of Economics and Management of Tourism Industry Department Oksana Yezhel, the Assistant of Economics and Management of Tourism Industry Department Viktoria Maleronok, and Masters’ and PhD students.

The presentations presented not only the results of theoretical research, but also practical experience, including those of the seminar participants themselves. For example, Margarita Kozlovskaya, postgraduate student, shared her experience of restaurant business functioning under COVID-19 conditions on the example of bar "Insomnia". 

As it is known, the Republic of Belarus has not imposed the bans on HORECA segment activities, but the objective situation forced to work under difficult conditions of decreasing demand.

As part of the cooperation with the branch of Economics and Management of the Tourism Industry Department at the Hotel "Planet", the seminar was attended by the hotel director Dmitry Shavruk and his assistant Ekaterina Leonova (incidentally, a BSEU graduate, who has worked at the hotel since 2019).  She introduced participants with a report on "Features of hotel management during a pandemic".
Elena Chernyshova - the training manager in the restaurant business of Lagardere Travel Retail (Spain, Malaga), presented an interesting experience using the example of Spain as one of the countries significantly suffered from the pandemic. She shared her impressions on quarantine measures, government support for businesses and coronavirus impact on it.
No less significant were the speeches by representatives of Italy. Thus, Giuseppe Carboni, the Honorary Consul of the Republic of Belarus in Cagliari, spoke about the prospects of development of Belarusian-Sardinian relations.

Carla Massidda, the Professor of Economics and Business at the Cagliari University, marked the key points of cooperation between BSEU and the University.
Andrea Pinna, the coordinator of BSEU-UNICA Double Diploma Programme (the Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science Department), outlined the problematic issues of the programme. The Graduate students of the Cagliari University made presentations. The presentation by Maurizio Cucchiara – the representative of Sardinia's tourism industry - about the changes in the work of business entities during the lockdown was very interesting as well.

All workshop participants made suggestions for the work of tourism organizations during the pandemic particularities and expressed a desire to continue working together.