Arch & Hotels
International Forum
Moscow, 2025
Development of new trends and shortage of hotels: Arch & Hotels International Forum discussed hospitality industry problems and measures
Forum results
On February 5, the RBC Event Center in Moscow hosted the international Arch & Hotels Forum, which traditionally highlighted topics relevant to the hospitality industry.
Investors, design, architecture and hotel business experts attended the event.
Event topic -"Hotel as a Part of a Multifunctional Complex" — allowed to involve not only the business community, but also representatives of the authorities in the discussion.
This was the third forum of the hospitality industry: the first time the event was held in February 2024.
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Forum attracted a representative group of participants
Forum results
Forum was opened with a greeting speech by the organizer, Gennady Noskov, Chairman of the Board of the Association of Design Industry Professionals. In his speech, he emphasized that the event brings together people from a wide range of fields — not only the hotel industry, but also those interested in investment and architecture. "The past year was marked by a great challenge — the increase of the key rate to 21%. Investors and developers faced the question of where to invest profitably," Noskov emphasized the relevance of the Arch & Hotels International Forum theme.
Ekaterina Kirillova, Head of the Hotel Management Department of the Moscow City Tourism Committee, also believes that there are prospects for investment in the travel industry. "Hotels are becoming multifunctional points of attraction for tourists: in the first nine months of 2024, 19.7 million people visited the capital, and we are trying to increase these figures. According to the approved tourism development strategy, we need to increase the capacity of the room stock by 25,700 rooms by 2030," she explained. According to Ekaterina Kirillova, today there are about 2 thousand hotels in the capital, but even half of them do not have quality room stock.
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Ekaterina did not casually mention hotels in the context of their multifunctionality: speaking about trends, she believes that the proper service approach will make it possible to diversify leisure activities even for tourists travelling alone. She suggests paying special attention to the construction of hotel facilities equipped with large-capacity conference halls: "Business tourism in Moscow has always been among the leading industries, and we intend to continue its development". However, the Moscow government is also working on the event and gastronomic agenda.
Under the conditions of the current key rate and forecasts of its increase, investors can be assisted by support measures, which were described at the forum by Alimbek Khidzev, Director of the Tourism Development Department of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia. Among the most large-scale he mentioned the program of subsidizing the preferential credit rate: "Its final rate for an investor is the basic 3% plus 30% of the current key rate. The program is in demand and enjoys attention in the industry, especially since its support conditions have recently been updated and expanded.
It is important to take into account not only the capital’s industry trends in order to develop the tourism industry in the country. The Forum participants asked Aleksei Volkov, President of the All-National Union of the Hospitality Industry, how the industry will be developing at the federal level. According to his forecasts, Sochi will face overbooking in the coming season due to the recent events in Anapa. Aleksei also confirmed the growing popularity of such a travel destination as the North Caucasus — its attendance figures have increased by 30%.
However, Volkov does not recommend to stop at this point: "It is important to search for and develop new destinations — this will allow for a more efficient distribution of tourist flows. It is also necessary to increase the attractiveness of those regions where the travel industry is still underdeveloped. According to Volkov, an integrated approach will help, because today travelers pay more attention to impressions and emotions than to the choice of hotel. "For us, return tourism is the most valuable and important, so an infrastructure should be created around the hotel," he explains.
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