Interstate Hotels & Resorts, a leading hotel real estate investor and the largest independent operator of full- and select-service hotels in the US has announced that it has signed a contract to manage the hotel component of a 3,000,000 square-foot, futuristic indoor resort to be built outside Moscow.
The mixed-used retail and entertainment complex to be named Freestyle Park will feature an indoor ski slope, apartments, bars, restaurants, movie theatres, an aqua park, a science museum, and a shopping centre.
The project is being developed by MT Development, with the hotel portion expected to open Spring 2011. It is Interstate’s tenth hotel management contract in Europe, eight of which are open and operating.
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Russia’s former president Vladimir Putin, a keen skier and personally instrumental in winning the 2014 Olympics for the Black Sea resort of Sochi, is reported to have bowed to growing pressure from environmental campaigners regarding the location of some of the venues for the Games.
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Roman Abramovich, the famous Russian billionaire owner of Chelsea football club and investor in property in Courchevel and the 2012 Winter Olympic venue of Krasnaya Polyana, is reported to have purchased a second-hand ski condo in Colorado for $12m.
Abramovich, purchased the five-bedroom, five-bathroom condo in Snowmass Village near Aspen, Colorado. Snowmass is currently under going a $2 billion dollar revamp, but the property dates from 1995.
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With the end of March, SportsRebel Media Ventures (SMV) Ltd. is happy to announce that it broke an all time record for monthly unique visitors with a whopping 666.78 % to SkiRebel Magazine in March 2008 to the same period a year earlier. This staggering growth was led with incredible traffic increases of more than 2000 % on March 28th alone.
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Four police officers are currently being taught to ski in a program to build up a slope security force ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Local officials have announced that security and public order is a concern as skier numbers grow ahead of the Olympics.
One of the four trainees, police officer Artyom Bogatov told local media that their work would be cut out once the Games start.
The capacity of this ski lift is at least 2,000 people a day. There are a lot of spots where you can buy drinks. So people can get drunk, get aggressive, even commit crimes,”
he said.
When the unit becomes fully operational, the officers will be able to ensure public order as well as helping tourists who find themselves with any problems on the slopes. They’ll also have a new ski police uniform.
Although opening dates have been mooted on several occasions over the past 15 months, the latest suggestion of March 2008 comes from Moscow’s first indoor snow centre’s own website.
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The fourth stop on the inaugural Freeride World Tour will be staged at Tignes next week. Open to qualified snowboarders and skiers, the competition will take place on the famously rugged slopes surrounding the high French resort between the 8th and 13th March.
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