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Moscow Has Enough Rooms in Hotels for Tourists
Moscow hotels may accommodate 20 percent to 30 percent more tourists each day, Moscow Tourism Committee Chairman Grigory Antyufeev told Interfax Monday to deflate the rumors about the lack of rooms in the city’s hotels.
“It is evident that certain unfair and weak tourist firms set to crying that we lack the hotels. For some reason, St. Petersburg where the number of hotels is three times less, other cities have enough hotels. Their number is sufficient everywhere but for Moscow,” the bureaucrat said.
The Moskva Hotel will open next year. “It will open next year. But this is what I mean, quite a few cried that you had demolished Moskva, Intourist, Rossia. At the same time, the total number of demolished places was set off by the rebuilt ones with vengeance,” Antyufeev said.
According to the official, 47 hotels for over 11,500 guests overall have been launched in 2005 through the first half of this year in Moscow.
The plans were to build 28 hotels this year; of them, eight hotels have been put into operation and the remaining 20 are at the launching stage or at the stage of completing construction. Five hotels, including three in downtown Moscow, will open in the nearest two or three months, the official promised.
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