Coach fleet
Sourcing Van Hool touring coaches from sellers in Poland and Germany and managing EU export and Ukrainian import end to end.
- Van Hool TX
- EU import
Nikita Plyasov.
Dnipro, Ukraine · Entrepreneur · Humanitarian
NikitaPlyasov
I build organizations that move people. As a tour operator, that means 70,000 travelers a year. Since 2022 it has also meant ambulances, shelters and aid for Ukraine.
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Founder & CEO, ItravelUkrainian tour operator, 14 years
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Founder & Director, Relief ShipCharitable foundation, since April 2022
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Master of Sports, badmintonTop national athletic rank in Ukraine
Itravel
A tour operator I started on graduation day
Fourteen years later, Itravel is one of Ukraine's established tour operators: we design and run coach and air tours to Europe and sell them through a nationwide network of independent travel agencies.
14years in operation
~70ktravelers per year
3,200+partner travel agencies
22+hotels with room allocations
Model
B2B through agencies
We build the product; independent agencies across Ukraine sell it. That network is our distribution and our reputation.
Destinations
Europe by coach and air
Greece, Italy, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Turkey, France, Scandinavia and more, plus corporate travel programs for companies in Europe and worldwide.
Operations
Own fleet, own team
A company-owned coach fleet, a team of about 48 people, and an EU entity, Itravel Sp. z o.o., in Poland.
Itravel Road Show 2026, meeting partner agencies
Itravel · Departures across UkraineOwn fleet · Partner · 2027
| EST | Dnipro · Kyiv · Kharkiv · Zaporizhzhia · Kryvyi Rih | Own fleet |
| WST | Lviv · Ivano-Frankivsk · Chernivtsi · Ternopil | Own fleet |
| NWS | Rivne · Lutsk · Dubno | Own fleet |
| CTR | Poltava · Kremenchuk · Kropyvnytskyi · Uman · Bila Tserkva | Own fleet |
| STH | Odesa · Mykolaiv | Own fleet |
| PRT | Zhytomyr · Khmelnytskyi · Uzhhorod · Mukachevo | Partner |
| NEW | Zhytomyr · Vinnytsia · Khmelnytskyi · Kamianets-Podilskyi | From 2027 |
23 departure cities today: 19 on our own fleet, 4 with partner carriers. With Ukrainian airspace closed, the road is how most of our travelers reach Europe.
Relief Ship Foundation
Turning a travel company's logistics into humanitarian aid
In April 2022 I founded Korabl Dopomohy, known in English as Relief Ship. We source medical and humanitarian aid in Europe and deliver it to people affected by the war in Ukraine.
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Ambulances delivered
Equipped with medical gear, handed to hospitals in the Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions.
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Families supported
Infant formula for children with special needs and for families from occupied territories.
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Windows replaced
At a geriatric nursing home, restoring a safe, warm building for its residents.
Medical
Ambulances, intensive-care lamps and medical devices; computer equipment for hospitals and clinics.
Shelters
Building and equipping shelter infrastructure for civilians.
Recovery
Rest and recovery trips for internally displaced families and medical staff, drawing on what Itravel knows best.
Education
Computer equipment for schools and educational institutions.
Partners have included DataArt, Kolibri Boats, Cuub Studio and humanitarian organizations in Poland. We work with businesses in Europe and the United States and welcome new US partners. reliefship.com.ua
Leadership
How I lead
An economist by training and an athlete by habit. I hold a Master's in Economic Cybernetics from Dnipro National University, the discipline of modeling economic systems with math and software.
Keep operating
Through the full-scale war we kept tours running, rebuilt routes around a closed sky, and started a foundation within the first two months.
One owner for every problem
Every agent chat and every booking has one named, accountable person. Clear ownership is how a team of 48 serves 3,200 agencies.
Decide with data
Pricing, capacity, routes and even social media reach are modeled, measured and adjusted season by season.
Train for the long run
Years of competitive badminton and marathon running taught me that results come from consistent work, not single sprints.
Tourism and aid run on the same thing: getting people and things where they need to be, on time.
Other projects
Transport and software
Transport
2027 regional branch
A new own-fleet branch for the 2027 season covering Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytskyi and Kamianets-Podilskyi.
- Network growth
- 4 cities
Software
S-iTravel ERP
Itravel's proprietary booking and operations platform: agency reservations, hotel allotments, coach seating and per-booking profitability.
- Booking engine
- 1C
AI operations layer
An n8n + Claude pipeline that assembles trip documents and delivers them to tour leaders over Telegram, connected to the ERP by API.
- n8n
- Claude
- Telegram
Tripadvisor Content API
Bringing independent hotel ratings and reviews into i-travel.com.ua for agents and travelers.
- Integration
- Web
European hotel databases
Structured property data for our destinations, starting with 512 Croatian properties from the official national registry.
- Croatia
- Montenegro
- France
- Italy
Off the clock
Outside the office
Sport
Master of Sports, badminton
The top national athletic ranking in Ukraine's sports system.
Endurance
Marathon finisher
Long distances, run with the same patience a travel season takes.
Music
Guitar and vocals
I play and sing, usually after the last coach of the day has left.
Let's talk.
Open to partnerships in travel, corporate travel, transport and humanitarian work, and to conversations with US companies that want to support Ukraine.