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The Board of Tourism and Resorts on March 15 is to present a blacklist of hotels in Ukraine that are artificially overpricing their rooms before the Euro 2012.

"On March 15, we will select and announce first candidates to be put on the blacklist. We already have several candidates – around five. We will announce the candidates for the blacklist. We will remove them from the list if the company changes its mind and reduces the prices it announced earlier and presents apologies to consumers, as there were cases when hotels declined applications for prior bookings at normal prices and demanded speculative prices," Chairman of the Board of Tourism and Resorts Yevhen Samartsev said in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

He added that the list would include the names of the hotels that increased their prices by ten to twelve times.

"Prices can be increased by one or two times, but not ten, as this causes serious damage to the hotel industry in general. We don’t mind hotels earning money, but at the same time we should condemn such obvious speculation, as everyone suffers as a result," he said.

Samartsev expressed hope that such an event would warn carriers and food manufacturers away from unreasonable overpricing during Euro 2012.

The final version of the blacklist will be announced in July 2012 after Euro 2012.

Earlier, UEFA noted that some of Ukrainian hotels set high prices of rooms and called on hotel owners to set normal prices of accommodation during Euro 2012.

The Board of Tourism and Resorts was set up on December 6, 2007. It united the leading national and regional professional association and public organizations in the sphere of tourism and resorts. The board’s key task is to develop tourism and resorts in the country, as well as protect interests of certain professional unions and their members.