Sustainable Solutions and Green Technologies for Success in the Hospitality Industry: the Experience of Sweden and the Success of Russia

On 29 September 2010, 10-00 – 14-00

9-30 Registration

10-00 Opening

• Purpose and tacks of the project "Skills for Sustainability: Capacity and Competencies for Practical Action for NGO-led SME Support Programmers in Poland and North-West Russia"
  Sustainability Toolkit
  Natalia Lebedeva, executive director, Russian Economic Developers Association
  
• “Green” solution in the hospitality business in Sweden
  Jimmy Sjöblom, Senior Advisor of the Natural Step International
  
• Experience and challenges for small hotel in St Petersburg on the way to sustainability
  Representative of Association of small hotels, St Petersburg
  
• Promotion in St Petersburg international programs of voluntary ecological certification for hotels “Green Flag” and “Blue Flag” for marinas
  Galina Tsvetkova, Chair NGO “Keep St. Petersburg Tidy”

Discussion

• Vladlena Eliseeva, Expert of OOO ManNet Partners
• Liudmila Romaniuk, Scientific Secretary of Saint Petersburg Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPbRC RAS)
• Evgeniy Vostokov, Professor of The Bounch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg University of Telecommunications 
• Irina Dombrovskaya, Manager of Izhora Hotel 
• Elena Belova, Secretary General of ICSER Leontief Centre

Short report