The international hotel management company Ribas Hotels Group (RHG) has joined the nationwide project to promote hotel accessibility, “Space with Opportunities.” WOL.GREEN Polyana has undergone an independent audit, the group’s press service reported.
“Today, accessibility is no longer a competitive advantage that sets a hotel apart from others, but rather a basic requirement for all market players. Amid the war, the number of people with amputations and disabilities is growing, and businesses must ensure equal opportunities for all,” notes Anastasia Ocheretnyuk, PR Lead at Ribas Hotels Group, whose remarks are quoted in the press release.
Inclusivity requirements under Ukraine’s State Building Codes (DBN) are constantly being raised (the latest changes took effect on August 1, 2025; work is currently underway on a new edition—IF-U), and it is not always possible to fully implement these innovations in existing projects. In particular, in the existing hotels of the RHG chain, accessibility has so far been implemented mainly in part—through individual elements such as adapted rooms, ramps, or elevators, the press service explains. Accessibility is being incorporated more comprehensively into new projects that the group is building from the ground up, particularly at “WOL Vinnytsia” and AMA Family Resort, where relevant solutions are planned as early as the design phase.
To assess how truly accessible these solutions are in practice, the Ribas Hotels Group participated in Metro Ukraine’s special project “Space with Opportunities,” carried out in collaboration with the nonprofit organization “Dostupno.UA,” during which 10 free audits of hospitality establishments across Ukraine were conducted. The project’s goal is to help HoReCa businesses create accessible spaces for guests and staff amid the growing number of people with disabilities in Ukraine as a result of the war—a number that, according to rough estimates, could reach 300,000–400,000 people in the post-war period.
The RHG network selected the WOL.GREEN Polyana Hotel for the audit; the company had renovated this unfinished building while the full-scale war was still underway, which allowed it to incorporate some accessibility standards right from the construction phase. The audit confirmed a number of implemented solutions: barrier-free common areas, a reception desk with two service areas, a universal restroom with standard handrails, and an elevator that complies with regulations. At the same time, the experts provided the hotel with recommendations on how to design a guest room adapted for guests with disabilities.
According to Tetyana Morozova, head of the architecture division at TEMO Design, incorporating barrier-free solutions into a project from the very beginning is always less expensive than retrofitting a completed facility. At the same time, inclusivity is not limited to the width of passageways or ramps, but encompasses the guest’s entire journey through the hotel: navigation, lighting, acoustics, and psychological comfort.
Ribas Hotels Group was founded in 2014 in Odesa as an international full-cycle management company and a hotel business ecosystem. It manages the entire process: from site selection, design, and construction to management, franchising, and investment. It is the only hotel group in Ukraine that independently handles all stages of creating and developing hotel projects.
The company’s portfolio includes 56 projects currently in the construction phase, launch phase, or under management, including locations in Ukraine, Poland, Turkey, and Bali. It develops 3-, 4-, and 5-star city and resort hotels under the brands Ribas Hotels, Ribas Rooms, WOL home + hotel, and Mandra Moments. The operator’s total room inventory exceeds 1,000 rooms.
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The development company ARHA Group has received a certificate of commissioning for the AMA Family Resort, a resort complex with a total area of 10,000 square meters in the village of Polianytsia (Ivano-Frankivsk region), according to a press release from the hotel operator Ribas Hotels Group.
As the operator told the agency “Interfax-Ukraine,” AMA Family Resort will become the sixth Carpathian property managed by Ribas Hotels Group.
“Preparations are currently underway to formalize property rights for investors, after which the company will begin work on preparing the property for opening,” the operator noted.
Preparations for operations include building a team, setting up sales and booking systems, launching marketing channels, implementing operational standards, and verifying the property’s technical readiness and service processes.
According to Ribas Hotels Group, the complex’s housing stock consists of two-story cottages and apartments of various sizes: one-bedroom units ranging from 25 to 44 square meters, two-bedroom units of 83 square meters, and three-bedroom units exceeding 100 square meters.
The infrastructure of AMA Family Resort includes a restaurant and lounge areas, a spa, terraces and viewing platforms, a children’s area with a movie theater, cycling infrastructure, parking, and a seasonal ski bus.
Ribas Hotels Group is an international full-cycle management company and hotel business ecosystem that encompasses the entire process from site selection, design, and construction to management, franchising, and investment. The company’s portfolio includes 56 projects in the launch, design, or management phases, including seven in Bali, as well as in Poland and Turkey.
The company develops 3-, 4-, and 5-star city and resort hotels under the brands Ribas Hotels, Ribas Rooms, WOL home + hotel, and Mandra Moments. The operator’s total room inventory exceeds 1,000 rooms, with 300,000 guests in its database and over 1,300 investors in its projects.
Hotel operator Ribas Hotels Group and development company Arena Bud intend to build an Erwin Hall apartment hotel in the village of Polyana (Zakarpattia region), the operator’s press service has reported.
According to the press release, the hotel is scheduled to be commissioned in the third quarter of 2027. According to the project, the seven-storey hotel will have 116 apartments of different categories: smart, 1- and 2-room apartments with an average area of 32 square meters.
According to the founder of Ribas Hotels Group, Artur Lupashko, the estimated payback period of the hotel is up to 9 years, with a yield of up to 11.5% per annum.
“Mineral waters and unique nature have always provided a reliable tourist flow and turned Polyana into a resort that also has a good and safe location, as it borders Hungary, Slovakia, and Romania. We are also ready to cooperate with the local authorities and develop the surrounding areas, including infrastructure for drivers and pedestrians, landscaping and lighting,” explained Oleksandr Kurakh, CEO and founder of Arena Bud, as quoted in the statement.
Ribas Hotels Group is an international management company established in 2014 in Odesa, whose flagship service is the operational management of hotel and restaurant complexes. The company also provides services in concept development, design, support of all stages of project implementation, consulting and franchising for developers.
The company has 28 city, beach, and ski hotels under the Ribas, Ribas Hotels, Ribas Rooms, WOL home + hotel, and Mandra Glamping brands under integrated management and exclusive booking. The operator’s total room capacity is over 1000 rooms. In total, the portfolio includes 55 projects, including those under design and construction.
The company is currently developing facilities in Poland, Moldova, and Indonesia.
Arena Bud’s portfolio includes nine commissioned residential complexes with a total area of over 40 thousand square meters in the western regions of Ukraine.
Ribas Hotels Group LLC (Odesa), the managing company of the national network of tourist hotel and restaurant complexes of three- and four-star categories, has postponed the opening of the Bautzen hotel in Jelenia Gora (Poland) until the end of 2021, but it does not exclude another postponement.
“Yes, the pandemic has affected the construction time. We are continuing construction, but the deadlines are likely to be postponed even from those announced on our website today (this is the end of 2021),” founder of Ribas Hotels Group Artur Lupashko told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, during the lockdown in Poland, it was impossible to carry out construction work. In addition, 90% of the builders involved in the site are from Ukraine, and experienced difficulties in entering Poland due to quarantine restrictions.
Previously, Ribas Hotels Group planned to launch the Bautzen hotel in the spring of 2021. According to the company, after the launch, the three-star hotel will include 23 rooms. The total area will be 1,087 square meters. The object will be the first in the portfolio of the operator outside of Ukraine.
According to estimates by Ribas Hotels Group, the planned return on investment in the opening of Bautzen is 10% per annum.
Ribas Hotels Group cooperates (management, franchising and booking) with 25 hotel and restaurant facilities (city, beach and ski hotels). The company’s portfolio includes business hotels Wall Street by Ribas and Bossfor by Ribas (Odesa), ski hotel Ribas Karpaty (Bukovel, Ivano-Frankivsk region), beach complex Richard by Ribas (Odesa region). Hotels in Lviv and Kyiv, as well as in Poland, are currently at the design and construction stage.
Ribas Hotels Group LLC (Odesa), the managing company of the national network of three- and four-star hotel and restaurant complexes, plans to complete the acquisition of a hotel in Bukovel, Ivano-Frankivsk region, by the end of 2018, and in two or three years to gain a foothold in all resort regions of Ukraine.
“We are positioning ourselves as a network of tourist-oriented hotels. Therefore the main focus is on Western Ukraine: in September we are buying a hotel in Bukovel, we are negotiating for the purchase of a 50% stake in one of the largest hotels in Lviv. We also plan to launch a hostel or an apart-hotel. We are looking to the hotels for rent in Kyiv,” Artur Lupashko, the founder of Ribas Hotels Group, told Interfax-Ukraine.
According to him, the opening of a hotel in Bukovel is scheduled for the third and fourth quarters of 2019. The facility is unfinished and it will take eight or nine months to complete all the works.
Lupashko added the company also plans to enter the international market.
Ribas Hotels Group also plans to develop a franchise direction.
Ribas Hotels Group provides comprehensive management services, the services of exclusive booking, franchising, design.
