88% of Kazan hotels have passed the official classification, another 5% are expecting the certificate

(KZN.RU, February 27, Anton Nozdrin). 168 Kazan hotels have passed the official classification, which is 88% of the total number of the city's accommodation. Another 5% of hotels are waiting for obtaining the certificate. Daria Sannikova, the director of the Tourism Promotion Committee, reported this to Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, at today's Business Monday.

She reminded that, according to the Federal Law №108, all means of accommodation in cities, hosting the World Cup in 2018, had to be classified by January 1. 7% of hotels and hostels do not pass through this procedure in the capital of Tatarstan. “It is about 3 hotels and about 8 hostels with a total stock of 100 rooms. The owners of some of them plan to cease operations, while others are preparing to sell the business”, explained the director of the committee. She noted that mostly, hostels of apartment type are included in the category of closing. “The owners of these hostels rent a house in hiring for a day without incurring any liability to the lodgers”, said D. Sannikova. The new owners of the business will need to go through the classification process for maintaining the profile.

I. Metshin noted the timeliness of the classification procedure. “It testifies the maturity of the city hotel business”, he said. The Mayor described the number of rooms, not passed classification, as non-critical. In general license fund of the city is more than 7.4 thousand hotel rooms.

D. Sannikova also reported that as part of a survey of hotels, not only the total number of rooms is estimated but the personnel and their knowledge in the field of hotel services, and sanitary norms requirements are conducted. According to the system of classifications, one of the categories assigned to the hotel (5 stars, 4 stars, 3 stars, 2 stars, 1 star, and no stars). The director of the committee added that Kazan has three hotel of 5 stars class, 19 hotels of 4-star, 31 hotels of 3-star, 29 hotels of 2-star, 7 hotels of 1-star hotels, and 102 hotels without stars. “Regardless of stars, all hotels, which passed the official classification and are officially confirmed their category, may receive visitors during the Confederations Cup 2017 and the World Cup 2018”, said D. Sannikova.

Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, marked the need to keep the hospitality area under constant control due to the preparation of the city for major international events.