Hilton plans 2 hotels in Belokurikha
BARNAUL. Nov 21 (Interfax) - Hilton Worldwide. Russia & CIS plans to build a DoubleTree by Hilton and a Hilton Garden Inn in Belokurikha, Altai territory, at a cost of 1.3 billion rubles each.
DoubleTree by Hilton is to be launched by 2018 at the Belokurikha-2 resort site, which is under construction, Stanislav Sazonov, a PR specialist at CJSC Belokurikha Resort. The hotel will have 250 rooms, a restaurant, lobby bar, lounge zone, cafe, fitness center with swimming pool, a health center and a SPA, he said.
"After the project documentation has been completed, the investor will select a site for the construction. Also the cost of the project will be clarified. Currently the investor is looking at from 850 million rubles to 1.3 billion rubles," Sazonov said..
The director of L-Finance, a co-investor in the project, Oleg Bakun and Altai Governor Alexander Karlin, on November 19 signed a deal on socioeconomic partnership, envisaging plans to build another hotel. The Hilton Garden Inn is to be built in the Belokurikha-3 sub-cluster.
A similar agreement was signed earlier between Karlin and Bakun on the construction of Hilton Garden Inn Barnaul at a cost of 1.3 billion rubles.
CJSC Belokurikha Resort said the Omsk-based company L-Finance is the consultant for commercial activity and management and market research. L-Finance signed its first cooperation deal with Hilton in June 2014.
Hilton Worldwide is a U.S. company that owns and manages the international Hilton Hotels & Resorts chain. In Russia, the chain has hotels in Moscow, Novosibirsk, Perm, Krasnodar, Volgograd, Voronezh and Samara.
The SPARK Interfax database shows that Bakun and Yevgeny Rappoport each own 25% of LLC L-Finance and LLC Essier Group, which is owned by Denis Cherfas, holds the other 50%.
