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Hotelbeds launches 'Making Room for Ukraine' project

Charity
Tom Parry
21 March 2022

Hotelbeds is helping refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine to find accommodation via a new platform launched with the help of its industry partners and NGOs.

Hotelbeds has also ceased commercial activities in Russia and Belarus (Credit: Marjan Blan/Unsplash)

The bedbank said its Making Room for Ukraine project had already helped “a number of families” to travel from Ukraine to Spain via Hungary and France – including a group who had been sleeping on the floor of a shopping mall.

The creation of the scheme follows Hotelbeds’ support of international humanitarian efforts, such as the Red Cross, and the ceasing of its commercial activities in Russia and Belarus.

Hotelbeds’ ESG lead, Aina Aguilo, said; “We knew we had to move quickly, as the people of Ukraine needed urgent help, so a lot has been happening in a very short space of time.