Feb. 21 – The French Accor Group, an international hotel operator, increased its presence in Russia by opening the three-star, 220-bed Ibis Nizhny Novgorod. The operator also plans to open up three more hotels in the region within two years, business weekly Vedomosti- Nizhny Novgorod reports.
“It took one and a half years to build the new hotel on Gorkiy Street in the city’s downtown,” Phillip Bon, chief development officer at Accor Hospitality, said to the paper. The hotel offers one bedroom suites at prices starting from US$100 per day during weekdays and US$90 during weekends, and a family suite for US$167 per day. The managing company expects a 70 percent occupancy rate. Read the rest of this entry »
