Hilton Garden Inn announced on Friday that it has signed its first hotel agreement to launch the brand in the Russian city of Perm. The company will transform the existing Plaza Olympia hotel in the city to the new Hilton Garden Inn Perm which is scheduled to open in late 2008.
Hilton Garden Inn announced on Friday that it has signed its first hotel agreement to launch the brand in the Russian city of Perm. The company will transform the existing Plaza Olympia hotel in the city to the new Hilton Garden Inn Perm which is scheduled to open in late 2008.
The 104-room Hilton Garden Inn Perm will be centrally situated just a short drive from the airport and city centre. In addition, the hotel also will offer leisure and business travelers a bar and restaurant as well as 250 m2 of conference and meeting facilities, business center and complimentary parking. Located in the Ural region, Perm has a population of over one million people and is considered to be an important industrial centre.
Over the next 10 years, Hilton anticipates it will open more than 70 Hilton Family Hotels across Russia, not only focussing on Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also actively looking at opportunities in key regional cities. 'Russia is one of our key strategic development markets and there exists a huge potential for hotel growth in key cities across the country', said Wolfgang Neumann, president of Hilton Hotels Europe
Hilton also plans to expand its Garden Inn brand across Europe in the next two years, particularly in Italy (Bari, Matera and Lecce); Rzeszow in Poland and Frankfurt in Germany.
Separate from this agreement, Hilton's first hotel in Russia will be the 275-room Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya, which is scheduled to open early next year.
