MOSCOW HOTELS NEWS

Moscow Hotels are Second in Profitability

Moscow came second again. This time it is second in revenue per available room (RevPAR). Thus, Moscow achieved some of the highest RevPAR results in Europe at 166 euro, just a little less than Paris, which is rated first. Analysis was done by Deloitte, a business advisory firm. It was based on the financial statements of 7,200 hotels in Europe, including Russia. During the first four months of...

23 July

The capital has got a new hotel

A new Hunter Hotel has opened its doors in the renovated Central House of Hunters and Fishermen on Golovinskoye Highway in north of Moscow. The Russian Association of Hunters and Fishermen has invested five million dollars in this project. The hotel is located in the renovated Central House of Hunters and Fishermen on Golovinskoye Highway in north of Moscow. The Assosiation has owned the...

21 July

Developers are not interested in budget hotels construction

The Moscow Hotel Construction Plan for 2001 - 2010 may fail. According to the Moscow City Duma Deputy Igor Protopopov, developers lack enthusiasm to build three-star hotels, and it is understandable. "We need a set of measures intended to create incentives for developers and make construction of budget hotels commercially viable", - said I.Protopopov at the meeting of Economic and Business...

9 July

Radisson SAS Belorusskaya

The total investment in the reconstruction of the Radisson SAS Belorusskaya Hotel located in the center of Moscow will amount to 50 million dollars. The 17-storied Radisson SAS Belorusskaya Hotel will feature 250 rooms including 16 luxury suites, a restaurant, a lobby-bar, a banquet room, 4 conference halls, and a spa center. "We plan to have the reconstruction work finished by the end of...

23 June

Moscow companies are not allowed to build hotels

Moscow authorities have delisted 10 companies planning to build 15 hotels in the city from the hotels development plan. Among the delisted companies are Inteko and Oleg Deripaska's Verin Vel, European Technologies and Services that owned Transvaal Park. Most of these companies were accredited by the Moscow Government and several years ago had obtained land lots to build hotels, says the source...

9 June

Top ten hotels

The on-line news service Lenta.ru has published its rating of the most spacious five-star Moscow hotels. The Crowne Plaza Hotel previously known as the Mezhdunarodnaya Hotel tops the list. Now it can accomodate guests in 577 rooms at the minimum price of 534 dollars per day. The hotel was built in 1979 as part of the project of the World Trade Center. The Mariott Grand Hotel, famous for its 386...

3 June

"Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya 48" Hotel

Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya hotel was opened on May 24 in the reconstructed building of the former Leningradskaya hotel. The hotel offers its visitors 2 restaurants, several bars, a 372 sq. m. banquet room, and a business centre. The total number of rooms is 273 including 43 Hilton rooms, 157 Hilton Delux, 39 hospitality suits, 5 ambassador suits, and 1 presidential suit. The hotel has 28...

28 May

Five-star Hotel to Appear on Site of the Former Minsk Hotel

A five-star hotel will appear in Moscow on the site of the Minsk Hotel. According to the information provided by Unicor Management Company to Rosbalt News Agency, it will be the first five-star hotel under of InterContinental Hotels & Resorts brand in Russia. The InterContinental Moscow is being developed by Unicor and the Rossiyskiy Kredit Bank. The five-star InterContinental Moscow Tverskaya...

26 May

The Hotel "Ukraine" reconstruction has been carried out with law violations

According to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office, Labour and Immigration Law violations have been revealed in the construction site inspection of the Ukraine Hotel, conducted in the course of enforcing applicable provisions of law. The inspection has found that immigrant workers involved in reconstruction did not have work permits. The construction permits for specific types of reconstruction work...

22 May

Moscow hotels

During the next two years Moscow is going to build hotels with the total capacity of 80 000 bedspaces. This was reported by the head of the Moscow Committee of Tourism Grigory Antyufeyev at a press-conference on Thursday. According to Antyufeyev, by 2010 it is planned to build 30 hotels in the capital. Most of them will be three-star hotels. "It is these hotels that are in demand by most of...

14 May

International Museum Day in Moscow

On May 18 Moscow will be celebrating the International Museum Day. Accordingly all metropolitan museums will be open from 10:00am to 10:00pm, so that Moscovites and guests of the capital will be able to visit numerous city museums, galleries and exhibition halls. The local authorities explained that Moscow's mayor Yuriy Luzhkov issued the directive. The citizens will have a chance to visit...

8 May

Foreign tourists in Moscow

Over the last eight years the number of foreign tourists coming to Moscow has increased by 2.5 times exceeding 4 million people, said Head of the Moscow Committee of Tourism Grigory Antyufeyev to the journalists on Thursday. "Here is the overall picture of the increase: The year 1999 - about 1,5 million people came, the year 2007 - 4 million people," said Antyufeyev. According to...

4 May

President's award

Yuriy Podkopayev, Executive general manager of National («?????????») Hotel was medaled The Order of Friendship of Peoples on Thursday, April 10, 2008. By presidential Edict 385 dated 22 March 2008 "On Russian Federation State Decoration," Yuriy Podkopayev was conferred Order «For Achieved Success and Many Years of Diligent Work». Mr. Podkopayev has been head of National Hotel for 20 years....

23 April

A new hotel is to be built on the Balaklavskii avenue

A 100-room hotel is to be built in Moscow at Balaklavskii Avenue 4-B. Yury Luzhkov, Mayor of Moscow, has signed the order to draft preproject documentation for the construction. Duties as State Contractor for preparatoin of the preproject documentation on the project have been assigned to Moscomarchitecture Company....

18 April

"Pekin" is going to become a five stars hotel

Hotel "Pekin" is one of the oldest in Moscow. Shortly after the reconstruction "Pekin", which is situated in the centre of Moscow on Sadovoye Koltso Street, is to become a five-stars hotel. Alexander Arutyunov, the head and the President of "Intourist", Inc. informed the journalists of it. The hotel is not to be closed in 2008 yet. The only problem "to be solved is whether to leave the...

11 April

"Ismailovo" hotel in Moscow is recommended to British tourists

Moscow still tops the lists of the most expensive cities in the world. Moscow hotels are also notable for their high prices. The Guardian site posted the list of five reasonably priced Moscow hotels from the British point of view. 1. Hotel complex "Ismailovo". The complex consists of four buildings: "Ismailovo Alfa", "Ismailovo Beta", "Ismailovo Vega" and "Ismailovo Gamma-Delta". The complex...

7 April

The Reconstruction of Baltschug Kempinski Hotel will take 3 years

At the end of the year Moscow's oldest five-star hotel is planned to undergo capital renovation which will last for three years. According to Gianni Van Daalen, managing director of the hotel, reconstruction work is to cover the whole infrastructure, but in spite of the project's scale, the hotel won't stop receiving guests. Phase 1 of reconstruction involves modernization of the rooms facing...

1 April

"The National" has been awarded with the Five Star Diamond Award 2008 for the 8th time

In March 2008 the best hotels in international hotel business were awardered the Five Star Diamond, the most prestigious award in the world hospitality business, by American Academy of Hospitality Sciences in Berlin. American Academy of Hospitality started back in the 40s of the past century. Since then the Academy has been the most influential & authoritative body that rates the hotels & the...

25 March

Foreigners will get registered at hotels

The Moscow Mayor Jury Luzhkhov has signed a decree on automated system of registration of the foreign citizens staying at the city hotels. It aims to help to control and ensure that the foreign citizens observe the rules of stay on the territory of the capital. All registration records will be kept by the Moscow Department of Federal Migration Service. ...

21 March

"Aerostar" hotel has a new owner

"Aerostar" hotel in Leningradsky Prospect and the air terminal located in the area have a new owner. It is Mos City Group (MCG) company headed by Pavel Fux. MCG is going to open the hotel this summer, but not for a long time: by 2012 at the 14 hectare premises occupied by Aerostar and air terminal "several hundred thousands" square meters of hotels, offices, etc.are to be built. The "Aerostar"...

19 March

Historical hotels to appear in Moscow

For the first time the experience of Spanish " paradors", French and Scottish castle hotels, is being applied on Russian soil. The Moscow Istitute of Ecology has designed historical inns to be built within the currently reconstructed estate compounds of " Medvedkovo" and " Vinogradovo". As part of Moscow North-East tourist-recreational zone development program, the pilot planning projects on...

11 March

Kempinksy hotels

A meeting between representatives of the legendary Kempinsky hotel chain and leading Russian media personalities took place on February 19 at the Balchug Kempinsky Moscow Hotel. Speakers at the event included: Vice President of the Kempinsky Hotel Group in Eastern Europe and General Manager of Balchug Kempinsky Moscow, Janni van Daalen; General Manager of Shirin Palace Kempinsky Istanbul, Henry...

28 February

IKEA will built a hotel in Moscow

Swidish Company IKEA, has recently bought a piece of land 50 ha big by a village Chelobit'evo in the Mytyshi region. IKEA company needed that land, located in the north-east of Moscow, in order to surround Moscow: 3 Mega Malls are already located behind Moscow Ring Road in the south-east, soth-west & north-west of the capital. The Swidish company is going to build a multifunctional complex,...

15 February

Renovation of Hotel "Leningradskaya" in Moscow Complete

The Hotel "Leningradskaya" reopened under then new brand "Hilton Leningradskaya, after being transformed from a 3-star into a 5-star hotel. The renovation replaced the wiring and plumming and refurbished detail on facades and indoor mouldings. The quantity of rooms fell from 329 to 275, as the average floor space rose from 18 to 33 square meters. Three conference rooms, a fitness club, a swimming...

14 February

Moscow's Hotels - The Most Profitable in Europe

According to a report by "Interfaks", which references a study by TRI Hospitality Consulting, Moscow's hotels were declared the most profitable in Europe in 2007. Last year, the city's hotels brought their owners an average profit of 140 euros per room per night, significantly more than the second place city, London, where hotel rooms bring in 117 euros per night. Paris came in third, with rooms...

1 February

Apart-hotels in Moscow

CCA “Advanced Construction Management” has informed that the project of the 2nd and 3rd Lefortovo Districts development provides for the construction of high-rise buildings and apartment hotels. According to the press service, the total area of apartments in the buidlings to be demolished comprises 124,000 sq m. The total area of apartments in the new buildings is 188,600 sq m. To provide...

24 January

Barvikha Hotel and Spa

In summer of 2008 at Rublyovka Barvikha Hotel & Spa are expected to open. Barvikha Hotel has 65 rooms and suites, each having its unique terrace and provided by hi-tech simple in use equipment. Spa Henri Chenot is placed on the ground floor of Barvikha Hotel and Spa and includes a covered pool, saunas, a restaurant and a bar with a special menu, a gym equipped with new training...

17 January

There will be a hotel constructed for the long-distance drivers

As the transport server of Moscow transport and connection Department informs, the first transport-logistic center in the city is to be soon opened on the territory of 28th auto-industrial complex in the Eastern administrative district of the capital city. "Operators of this Center are supposed to suggest the drivers where it is possible to repair the car or park it. For nonresident long...

14 January

Moscow faces the lack of space for hotels' construction

The Head of Rosturizm Vladimir Strzhalkovskiy informed, that the number of builders in Moscow, willing to construct a hotel, is much higher than the number of building sites. «Just five years ago we could hardly dream about such a situation, - said Strgalkovskiy. - Earlier the investors invested their money only into the construction of accommodation and business-centers, which could give fast...

29 December

The reasons for the collapse of the tower of The Ukraine hotel disclosed

The Moscow Cultural Heritage Committee has announced the reasons of the collapse of a Ukraina Hotel tower. According to the representatives of the Committee, defects faults in te costruction were made in the fifties of the last century. The Committee Deputy Chairman Alexander Filyaev said that the building had been constructed in a rush and low-quality materials had been used. "Most likely it...

27 December

2008 year Moscow new hotels construction plan has been approved

The hotels development plan for 2008 has been approved. This was done to in accordanc with the Moscow Government Resolution entitled "On the Master Plan for Hotel Development Through Year 2010." The directive approving the plan has been signed by the First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin. New hotels will be opened in the Central, Northern, Eastern, South-Eastern, Southern and...

24 December

The Rezidor Hotel Group will open Park Inn hotel in Moscow

One of the fastest growing hotel companies in the world, Rezidor Hotel Group is announcing the signing of an agreement for the opening of the 118-room Park Inn Sadu Hotel in the Russian capital. It is planned that the new hotel in Moscow will be completed in 2008. The new Park Inn Hotel will be located at the Bolshoi Polyanka Street in the very centre of Moscow, about one kilometre away from...

20 December

The best Russian hotel

The Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow, has been ranked the best Russian hotel of 2007 by readers of the Global Finance magazine. Recently the hotel celebrated its 10th anniversary. According to ProHotel.ru, the hotel was opened in August 1997 and became the first premium-class hotel of the widely known international Marriott brand on the Moscow market. The hotel is located on Tverskaya Street,...

17 December

A new team of chefs in Swissotel Krasnye Holmy

"Swissotel Krasnye Holmy Moscow" announces new appointments in food and drinks management. Jean-Michel Harduin-Atlan is the new Executive Chef. The First Pâtissier is Frederick Andrie and the Second Pâtissier is Atilla Jabo. Before this position at "Swissotel Krasnye Holmy Moscow", Jean-Michel Harduin-Atlan worked at "Sunset Beach Resort" in Al Khobar city (Saudi Arabia). He worked...

13 December

There will be Lotte hotel in the capital

The first hotel owned by a South Korean corporation Lotte will be opened in Moscow in two years, announced General Manager of the Lotte Hotel in Seoul Tiger D.Dzhong. The hotel in Moscow - Lotte Plaza comprising 250 rooms - is under construction in the city centre at the intersection of Novy Arbat and Sadovoye Koltso Streets. The hotel is going to be the second part of Lotte Centre including a...

7 December

10 hotels will be constructed by a Bavarian company

There will be 10 new three star hotels in Moscow from the Bavarian company "MAVI Management Center". The hotel fund is more than 2000 numbers. Presently, the following plots of land with the following addresses are marked out for the building of hotels: Ayvazovskiy street, building 7, the intersection of Inez Armand street and Golubinsky street, Horoshevsky highway, building 39 A, 1st Mitinsky...

5 December

Quinn Group company is not planning to buy hotel the Slavic Radisson SAS hotel in Moscow

The information that was earlier widely announced in the press, concerning the purchase of Quinn Group hotel Slavic Radisson SAS is not a reality. The regional manager of Eastern Europe countries of Quinn Group Peter Quinn said so. "We are always very carefully weighing everything before we acquire any object. I can say that in the hotel market we are considering about 20 different variants....

27 November

New hotels will be constructed in Moscow

The first high-rise multifunctional public complex with a hotel will be developed in Western Moscow. The skyscraper will be constructed on a land area of 1.7 hectares that is located at Ozernaya Street, building 37. The work will be conducted within the frameworks of the urban investment program "New ring of Moscow". The design planning will be concluded by the end of next year. One more...

27 November

Insufficient numbers in hotels, lead to a rise in prices

According to the information of the committee on foreign-economic activities of Moscow, 203 hotels operated inside the capital city at the beginning of 2007. In the middle of 2007, 71 hotels were constructed. More than five of them were planned to be opened in 2007. However, according to experts, it is too early to make optimistic forecasts. Marina Kharlamov is a leading analyst of the...

26 November

The Moscow Hotel building plan still not realized

The Moscow mass hotel building plan still can’t succeed. During the first nine months of this year only six hotels were opened in the capital city. This information is proved by the specialists’ researches. The lack of hotel rooms has elevated prices for the hotel stay. In September the three stars hotel room costs on average $185 per night, the four and five stars rooms cost about $340...

22 November

Collapse of the Hotel Element

One of the towers of hotel “Ukraine” fell down on Sunday, the 18th November. The collapse occurred in the morning: the notification about the fallen decorative tower was delivered to the emergency situations board at about 11 a.m. The collapsed element fell into the building, fortunately no one was injured. The reasons for this collapse are now being defined; previously it is supposed that...

16 November

The construction of a hotel complex "Russia" will begin in a year’s time

The main architect of Moscow, Alexander Kuzmin, has said "the construction of a hotel complex "Russia" at a demolished site in Moscow will begin in 2008". Kuzmin narrated that the project of the complex practically does not provide for the erection of office areas. "This will be just a social object. Two objects of culture were considered - one will be equal to a demolished concert hall, the...

15 November

The construction of new three-star hotels in Moscow will give tourists the choice possibility

The prefect of the Central Administrative District, Sergey Bajdakov, answering a question on the prices in metropolitan hotels said, that the majority of hotels is in private hands, and the prices are dictated by the market. "But it is in the powers of the urban authorities to increase the supply in this market, i.e. to commission new hotels. Moreover, the emphasis lays on the construction of...

2 November

The Plan for the Hotel Building in Moscow Can Be Knocked on the Head

The Moscow City Council deputy Ivan Novitsky declared that the plan for the hotel building in Moscow can be knocked on the head. This is the result of Mosinvestkontrol objection to finalize a range of documents. The decrees for the sites based on the documentation prepared by the builders and the designers of the hotels are still without confirmation. The office’s objection was justified by...

22 February

City reservation service takes parts in exhibitions...

Dear colleagues!
We are City Reservation Service invite you to visit our stands at exhibitions. Well be glad to meet you at exhibitions in Milan, Berlin, Moscow.
1) Italy BIT MILAN ( stend 34, pavilion4) 22-25.02.2007
2) ITB Berlin (stend108-A, pavilion 3.2) 07-11.03.2007
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1 September

Moscow Hotels Today

The critical situation that we are facing today, connected with the lack of rooms in Moscow hotels, is largely due to the fact that a number of prominent hotel establishments were closed almost simultaneously. The majority of them, such as the Intourist, Sport, Minsk, Moscow, Rossia and Airostar, belonged to the economy class category, thus, producing a significant deficit in the supply of budget...

15 August

The Golden Ring Hotel features the first in Moscow “Ladies Only” room

The western tendency of creating hotel rooms for “ladies only” has finally reached Moscow, with the Golden Ring Hotel featuring the first room of the kind in the Russian capital. The peculiarities of the room concern mainly its interior design, which is done in soft pastel shades, and the elegant furnishing, each room having a dressing table with numerous functional drawers, a stereo system with...

6 August

About hundred of hotels will be built in the center of Moscow by 2010

By 2010 it is planned to build a hundred hotels in the central administrative district of the Russian capital, as the district prefect Sergey Baydakov announced at the press conference on Thursday. ”We intend to have 100 hotels with a total capacity of a bit less than 30 thousand guests built by 2010”, Bayadakov remarked. According to him, most city visitors are looking for a 3-star hotel, so...

22 July

The most expensive five star hotels in Moscow remain in great demand

The occupancy of Moscow hotels of all categories even during the off-season (at the end of the last year and the beginning of this year) exceeded average European 50 per cent, reaching the level of more than 90 per cent in some cases. The increase in the occupancy of working hotels is partly due to the fact that a lot of hotels in Moscow have been closed for reconstruction. The most expensive...

11 July

The average room rate in Moscow has risen by one third this year

The price of a hotel room in Moscow has risen by one third on average this year, reaching 187,50 eur per night. Research has shown that these figures go in line with the average rates in Western European hotels, whereas in other major cities of Eastern Europe the costs are much lower, with Prague, Warsaw, and Budapest at 101.40 eur, 81.24 eur, and 74.91 eur respectively. London (204,47 eur)...

5 July