Four stars in Novi Beograd – opening of "Holiday Inn" hotel in Belgrade on September 1

"Holiday Inn Beograd" will be opened on September 1st. This was announced yesterday (April 10, 2007) at the press conference that was held in the congress center "Expo". The hotel will be located in Novi Beograd, next to business center "Belexpocentar", and the value of the investment is estimated to 25m EUR. The hotel will have four stars.

According to Slobodan Petrović, the Manager of "Belexpo centre" and the representative of the investors, the money for construction has been provided by “one big bank from Kazakhstan and they happily accepted to join such business".

Tomas Pavlović, General Manager of "Holiday Inn Beograd" estimated that that hotel chain would come at the moment when Serbian and Belgrade’s hotel management was in "baby shoes". According to his words, the investors and hotel group "Holiday Inn" plan to have several facilities from this hotel chain built in the capital of Serbia and Serbia within next few years.

The hotel will have six floors and 140 rooms, two of which will be intended for disabled persons, while the others are one-bad and two-bed rooms. The sizes of the rooms will range between 26 and 80 square meters. The contents in hotel will respond to the standards of "Holiday Inn", which will be put in effect starting from year 2010. The hotel is intended for businessmen and it will have contents suitable for such clients. New hotel will have seven conference and banquet halls, which will be named after Serbian monasteries.

"Holiday Inn" is the hotel brand from "Intercontinental hotels group" (IHG), which gathers six more brands with total of 545,000 rooms. It is the largest group in the world. IHG annually earns about 5 billion USD and, according to the estimates of this group, the direct daily income amounts to 1m USD.