ON A VISIT WELL?
ON A VISIT WELL?
Whether well Nizhni Novgorod receives visitors? Whether there is here "the
The house "for visitors? How the market of hotel services develops?
According to experts, in a city there is no developed
Hotel business. The big hotel complexes constructed
In Soviet times, have turned to "houses of the collective farmer". Them
Reconstruction and furthermore building of new hotels demand
The big investments which strong investors can make only.
But times of economic euphoria have passed.
If to estimate on operating sanitary norms, hotels in
Bottom obviously does not suffice: only 2,4 hotel kojko-places on
One thousand inhabitants instead of 3,6, put on Gosstandart. Judging by
To that all of them are filled on the average on 65 %, and that is,
It is a lot of. Last years hotel "Sormovsky" was closed, in
Which the experts coming on factory usually stopped
"Red Sormovo". The Same fate waits hotel "Swan", which
Earlier served aviation factory, and today is empty and
Yields only losses. But actually the market is not turned off,
Simply its standards vary. To present businessmen are necessary
Good hotels. And to a city too.
Bad at it is.
That hotel economy which belonged to a city to
Privatisations, to it belongs and today: from 90 to 99 % of actions
Four leading hotels which have become by joint-stock companies,
Is in the municipal property. In 1996 the Center
Standardization and metrology has appropriated it on two stars, but
The status of numbers, degree of service, quality of a public catering can
To arrange only very unpretentious lodgers. Even
Rather new and rather esteemed by visitors Nizhniy Novgorod
Fair "Central" by these criteria does not maintain the strict
Critics.
About what "zvezdnosti" it is possible to speak, if prestigious there is no time
"Nizhniy Novgorod" and "Oka" seriously were not under repair from the Soviet
Times, and to "the Volga slope", constructed in the thirtieth years,
It is already terrible to be risen: all internal overlappings there
Wooden, hardly touch - will fall down. Buildings have decayed,
Internal communications, furniture.
Means which earn hotels, suffices only on
Operating repair, and simply is not present other investments. To all it is clear, that
Rescue them class increase can only. And it is money. City
The administration wished to find for a long time the rich owner for the
The burdensome property, hotel some times
Were exposed on investment competition, but unsuccessfully.
As two years ago the city has thoroughly impaired a little the
Image, not having executed conditions on the investment agreement with
The international company "Spring investments" which was going to
To build in Bottom hotel of the European level. A place for
The investor has received buildings in the city centre - on
The theatrical area. But at first it was necessary to take down the old
Hotel "Moscow" standing here since the thirtieth years. And as
Place historical, archeological excavations have been provided,
Which were financed also by the investor. And here, having enclosed 2,3 million
Dollars in a hotel and excavation pulling down, "Spring investments"
Have learnt what to build it here will resolve nothing: near "Moscow"
The ancient burial place (about which, by the way, was found out
Local historians), and then heads of a city warned
Under this pretext have given up to the investor. Scandal was long and
The noisy.
In the beginning of December the mayor of Nizhni Novgorod Jury Lebedev has met
In London with the president of the company "Spring investments" David
Brown also has discussed possibility of continuation of building
Hotel complex on hotel "Moscow" place. As considers
The mayor Bottom, for this purpose now is not present obstacles: remains
perezahoroneny with observance of orthodox ceremonies, and on a place
Ancient cemetery the chapel at the expense of means will be constructed
The investor.
Building of new hotel is planned to begin in April 2000
Year. The managing director is engaged in search of the general contractor
Company Marriott which represents the stamp, well-known in
The western hotel business. The hotel construction is estimated in
20 million dollars also will be financed completely at the expense of means
Investors.
Approximately in the same sum the hotel project will manage,
Which is going to to carry out a consortium of foreign firms.
Participants of a consortium - American company ABS Somers,
French "Akkor", Finnish "Equator" and SRV - have informed, that
After four-year-old studying of the Russian market they have accepted
The decision to construct within three-five years of hotel in a number
Regions, perspective from the point of view of hotel business.
The hotel in Nizhni Novgorod will be the first in this program.
Building is supposed to be begun in the spring of the next year and through
One and a half year already to put hotel in operation. Three-stars
The hotel complex "Alexander-park" will take places on
The verhne-Volga quay also will make ensemble with hotel
"October". Initial cost of the project made 55 million
Dollars.
For this money it was planned to construct five-stars hotel.
But, having estimated consequences of crisis of 1998, investors became
To develop the concept of cheaper hotel which could
To pay off in Nizhni Novgorod. The present investors, which
Have constructed not plans, and hotels, in unit city. In 1996
Mean hotel "Wave" of 1932 of a birth is reconstructed.
From it there was only a name, on this place costs as a matter of fact
New hotel. Investors - Open Society "GAS" (49 % of actions), serbo-Croatian
Firm "п п?п " (51 %) - have enclosed in reconstruction about 20 million dollars.
It not departmental hotel (the car factory has a centre of reception
Foreign delegations), and hotel for a city, in all
Justifying the four star: comfortable numbers,
The improving centre, conference hall and system of business services,
Restaurant to which such concept as "kitchen" is applicable.
Lack is only the location: hotel of the such
The class cannot be in promzone, in inadmissible affinity from
Factory pipes and Khruschev's pjatietazhek.
Losing to "Wave" in a class, hotel "October"
Wins in a landscape which opens from windows: violent greens
Slope, Volga, infinite zavolzhskie distances. In "Wave" is smarter,
Here - is quieter.
In hotel business of a high class today more and more
Private hotels on some numbers start to play an appreciable role,
Which settle down, as a rule, in merchant private residences
Historical part Bottom. They are calculated on known persons,
Visitors of solid firms, well-founded tourists.
Very few people knows hotel "Sergievsky". And meanwhile in it
All visitors of a celebrity, from Nikita Mikhalkov stop to
Vladimir Gusinsky. There is country hotel "п я я п пЁп п?п?", which
Too receives the selected visitors. There it is very cosy: wood, small
Bay. Rather decent restaurant. Comfort and rest - here that appreciate
Visitors in such hotels. Between the big hotels and private
Apartments there is no antagonism. There should be both that, and another.
Private hotels demand more considerable current expenses, but also
Profitableness level in them the highest. Level of service and
According to its cost in such hotels are focused on
Visitors of the large companies, well-founded tourists. Thus,
Hotel business Bottom starts to be positioned on
kategorjam clients and to a class. It is necessary to wait, whether will result growth in
Class and to new architectural decisions.
Galina SHCHERBO.
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