Official internet-portal of St. Petersburg, cultural capital of Russia | |
Petersburg CITY / Guide to St. Petersburg, Russia | http://petersburgcity.com |
![]() | |
Printed from: http://petersburgcity.com/news/city/2003/11/21/HOTEL/ City news, 21.11.2003 17:33 Hotel Investors Staying Away, Saint Petersburg Admits![]()
In the opinion of Anna Skoroglyad, chair of the city Tourism and Resort Development Committee, 'the foreign investor holds off not only because a site is legally entangled but because it is someone else's.' 'If we want to attract the big foreign investor, title to the land has to be cleared and sold,' she said.
Other factors cited in holding back hotel investment: choice of sites and the technical impossibility of bringing some structures up to modern hotel standards. Nikita Yavein, chairman of the city's Committee for the Preservation of Monuments, said: 'For all our committee's liberality toward investors, the latter are most hesitant about reconstructing historic buildings as hotels.' 'A great deal too much space in our baronial ruins went into space that cannot be directly used for hotel rooms, meeting rooms and corridors,' he said.
News source: www.rosbaltnews.com
| |
![]() | |
(c) 2000 PetersburgCity.com E-mail: contact@petersburgcity.com |