SOCHI 2014’S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM WINS RECOGNITION IN LONDON

Sochi 2014 was presented with the «Environment and Sustainability Award» at the International Sports Event Management Awards in London. The award was added for the first time to this year’s program. It recognizes sports event that has shown a significant awareness of the environment.

Sochi 2014 President & CEO, Dmitry Chernyshenko who was a key notes speaker at this week’s conference remarked:

«We are very grateful for the recognition. We do realize that this is a credit to all the work that Sochi 2014 have done in the field of sustainability and environment, including our initiatives in green standards, barrier-free environments and volunteer program. It gives us the drive and determination to continue our hard work and dedicate further focus on the legacy that the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games will leave across the Russian nation.»



Sochi 2014’s sustainable development and legacy initiatives focus on making Sochi a model city. This includes implementation of a barrier-free environment for people with disabilities, creation of a volunteer program which will see over 25,000 volunteers working during and in the lead up to the Games and the founding of the Cultural Olympiad which aims to offer access to the best cultural events in the country.

Sochi 2014 also continue to work on sustainability and legacy in the field of healthy living. In close partnership with The World Health Organization (WHO) Sochi is working to ensure tobacco-free Games to protect over 155,000 athletes, sports delegation representatives and volunteers from the harmful effects of smoking on a daily basis.

Sochi 2014 has also put in place a unique system of preserving the natural environment of the Krasnodar region in order to improve environment, and have also become a hub of ecological innovations in Russia as the first city to put into practice the «green» construction and city planning standards. (source: http://sochi2014.com/en/sochi-live/news/42763/)

EXPOFORUM WILL DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE MARINE INDUSTRY

On Oct 10, ExpoForum JSC was announced the winner of an auction held by the Nevsky-Ladozhsky water management company to have the right to make an agreement for usage of the area along the Galerny fairway.

ExpoForum plans to use the area to organise marine trade shows such as ‘Neva’, ‘Baltic Marine Festival’, ‘International Maritime Defence Show’ as well as to create a modern infrastructure for yachting and to develop sailing for youth and children. Sailing has been designated one of the priority sports for the Vasilievsky Island.

``After the opening of ExpoForum's new convention and exhibition center in 2013, we plan to develop the territory of the Lenexpo centre,'' said Anatoly Erkulov, ExpoForum general director. ``This new water usage agreement will allow us to realize plans for complex development along the Lenexpo's territory, as well as along the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Besides, getting the right for usage this water area we’ll have a legal foundation to organise marine trade shows there''.

INWETEX – CIS TRAVEL MARKET 2011 will be opened tomorrow

INWETEX – CIS TRAVEL MARKET 2011
12-14 October 2011
Lenexpo Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg, Russia

INWETEX-CIS Travel Market is the only largest B2B event in the North-West of Russia that annually attracts more than 463 companies from 33 countries and more than 9000 professionals of tourism industry. 

INWETEX CIS Travel Market deservedly took its commendable place in the top five most popular events in the Russian tourism industry and became the grand finale in the exhibition series of the year. 

Exhibitor profile – National Tourist Boards and Associations, regional Travel and City Administrations, tour operators, tourist agencies, airlines, health spas and resorts, cruise and ferry companies, Hotels and Accommodation Providers, reservation systems, trade press and mass media.

Visitor profile – Business travel agents, conference organisers, group travel organisers, hotel accommodation providers, incentive travel organisers, retail travel agents, sporting holiday specialists, tour operators, travel agencies.

Ritz Carlton, Moscow had become the Best Hotel in Europe according to MYPLANET AWARD.

The My Planet Travel Awards are a unique partnership with Russia’s main state television group, All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK), represented primarily by Moya Planeta TV, Russia’s leading travel and leisure network. The My Planet Travel Awards – the world’s only travel awards chosen by the Russian public – culminated in a glittering gala ceremony on 22 September 2011 in Moscow’s Ritz-Carlton hotel. The My Planet Travel Awards celebrated the most popular destinations, resorts and services in the eyes of Russian tourists and travel industry professionals.

Ritz Carlton, Moscow has won in nomination The Best Hotel in Europe.

Other winners are:
Best Hotel in Asia, Australasia and the Indian Ocean: One&Only Reethi Rah
Best Hotel in Middle East & Africa: Atlantis, The Palm
Best Luxury Hotel: W Retreat & Spa – Maldives
Best Eco-friendly Destination: Lake Baikal
Best Resort for Family Holidays: Forte Village Resort
Best Honeymoon Resort: Bora Bora Pearl Beach Resort & Spa
Best Health and Spa Resort: Mandarin Oriental, Sanya
Best Ski Resort: St. Moritz
Best Beach Resort: Paradisus Palma Real Resort
Best Airline: Qatar Airways
Best International Travel Agent: GrandTravelGroup
Best Russian and CIS Tourist Destination (country/region): Altai Region
Best Russian and CIS Tour Operator: CORONA TRAVEL
Best Russian and CIS hotel: Grand Hotel Europe, Saint Petersburg

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present will go on show at Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture

A major retrospective tracing the prolific career of performance artist Marina Abramović will go on show at Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture from 8 October to 4 December 2011. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition features approximately 50 works spanning more than four decades of her early interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances.

Internationally recognized as a pioneer of performance art, Abramović has been testing the boundaries of performance for over 30 years, presenting work that physically and mentally challenges the performer and the viewer. Since the beginning of Abramović’s career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, the body has been both her subject and medium.  In addition, Abramović will present a new performance installation entitled Measuring the Magic of Mutual Gaze, which has been created as the result of a close collaboration between the artist and a team of American and Russian scientists. Garage visitors are invited to participate in an experiment that measures brain activity when seated opposite one another – an exercise that privileges emotional, over physical, interaction. The viewing public can observe this activity, to see which areas of the brain are physically stimulated when participants are engaged with each other in thought. The work is reminiscent of Abramović's The Artist is Present, performed at MoMA New York, as different visitors sat opposite the artist over a number of months.

30 new restaurants were opened in St. Petersburg during last three months

Restaurant business in St. Petersburg is blooming.  30 new restaurants were opened in St., Petersburg during last three months.

The most expected event was  grand opening of new restaurant  SOHOLOUNGE (Konnushennaya square, 2) from the owners of “Barbaresco” restaurant and “22.13” bar, located next door.  Fresh Design has beed created by St. Petersburg designer Pavel Ivanov who got idea in clubs of London and New York SoHo. Soholounge restaurant & bar space is planning to become the most trendy and fashionale location in St. Petersburg

Other restaurants that were opened are: Sunday by Ginza project (summer project from famous restaurant group),  Schwaben Keller  (brewery-restaurant from Ost-West Association),  Taverna Grolle (big restaurant from the same owner as Montenegro Restaurant),  italian restaurants Serafino  and La Cucina Italiana with wonderfull view to  Alexander-Nevskaya Lavra,  Graf-in (next door to Russian Vodka room #1), Gosti (“Guests”) on Malaya Morskaya and many others.

Tsar Events has become the THE ONLY Russian DMC & PCO managed by DESTINATION MANAGEMENT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL

We are proud to announce that Alexander Rodionov, CMP — Managing Director of Tsar Events has passed exams forDESTINATION MANAGEMENT CERTIFIED PROFESSIONAL (DMCP) and has become the first DMCP outside of North America.

DMCP® Program is the only globally recognized professional accreditation for Destination Management Professionals.  DMCP certificate is designation for having met high standards of proficiency in Destination Management as demonstrated by substantial professional experience and superior examination performance.

Therefore, Tsar Events DMC & PCO has become the ONLY Company in Russia managed by Destination Management Certified Professional (DMCP) and by Certified Meeting Professional (CMP).

Destination Management Certified Professional (DMCP®) is designed  by Association of Destination Management Executives (ADME) to create impetus for organizational self-improvement and to stimulate a general raising of standards. The purpose of the DMCP® program is to increase the professionalism within the destination management industry by establishing a level of knowledge and performance necessary for certification; identifying the body of knowledge required; stimulating the art and science of destination management, increasing the value of practitioners to their employers; recognizing and raising industry standards and practices and thereby, ethics; and maximizing the value of the products and services that certified destination management professionals can provide.

The Convention Industry Council   (CIC) launched the Certified Meeting Professional® (CMP®) program in 1985 to enhance the knowledge and performance of meeting professionals,  promote the status and credibility of the  meeting profession and advance uniform  standards of practice. Today, the CMP credential enjoys worldwide recognition as the badge of excellence  in the meeting, convention and exhibition  industry. The requirements for certification are based on professional experience and a rigorous examination. Since its inception, more than 14,000 meetings industry professionals in 35 countries have earned this prestigious designation. This unique community represents every sector of  the industry.

20 UNIQUE REASONS TO VISIT AND EXPERIENCE MOSCOW

  1)      Try space suit, cosmonaut food & visit MIR station model in Star city

2)      Enjoy Moscow metro stations interiors – the most beautiful metro in the world

3)      Visit Residence of Russian President - Grand Kremlin Palace

4)      Watch ballet performance at legendary Bolshoi theater

5)      Have dinner with Red Army Choir performance at Bunker of Stalin

6)      Meet with monks in Zagorsk Monastery

7)      Walk and enjoy street art sales along famous Arbat street

8)      Visit historical Lenin tomb on Red Square

9)      Ice breaker dinner four seasons

10)   GUM Department store shopping

11)   Participate in 60-meters underground quest at Tagansky bunker

12)   Enjoy walking Red Square at night

13)   Souvenir shopping in Izmailovo market

14)   Watch the best show in Russia in Yar Restaurant & Cabare

15)   Dinner inside of Historical museum with view to Red square

16)   Conference in GUM Demonstration Hall

17)   Faberge Collection in Kremlin Armory

18)   Russian Art in Tretiakov gallery

19)   Dinner at Volkov-Yusupoff palace

20)   Watch world-famous performance in Russian circus

Russia’s First Destination Resort Theme Park, Magic World Russia, to Involve Consortium of California Based Companies

In travel news from the Russian Federation, California’s Moschanko Investment Group (MIG 2000)  announced Magic World Russia, a compelling new destination theme park.
Chairman and CEO Gennady Moshkovich has a track record for establishing bilateral business relationships between California and Russia as well as introducing a number of important energy sector technologies and development projects to Russia, is the driving force behind Magic World Russia. A first of its kind destination, Magic World Russia is reportedly being designed as family resort, as well as a “day visitor” attraction.

Terminal changes for Air France and Rossiya joint flights in SPb

We would like to draw your attention to the fact, that starting from the 27th of March 2011and till our next announcement, joint Air France flights AF 9715/9714 from St. Petersburg to Paris / from Paris
to St. Petersburg operated by Rossiya Airlines will be handled in "Pulkovo-1" airport.
Air France flights AF1153/AF2253 from St.Petersburg to Paris and AF1152/2252 from Paris to St.Petersburg as usual will operate from/to Pulkovo-2 airport.

Tsar Events DMC & PCO goes GREEN!

Three “R” (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) has  become golden rules of Tsar Events routine. 

Our team constantly is implementing environment friendly policy into all actions and events we are involve:

-          choosing green supplier (for example, Radisson and Park Inn hotel in Russia – the only hotels in Russia with “Green Key” certificate),

-          offering ecology saving programs (like using eco-friendly transportation: Bike-taxi, trams, trolleybus, electric-trains, horses; nature curing team-buildings activities; supporting and participating in local Russian green events)

-          participating in international exhibitions with minimum nature damage.

During CONFEX expo in London 01-03/03/11 Tsar Events DMC & PCO used all environmentally friendly cardboard furniture that are light, compact foldable and easy to transport.

All tables, chairs, shelves were made of corrugated cardboard. This is a material made of 70% recycled paper. Corrugated cardboard sheets of the Foldlife furniture are not specially treated in any way; essentially, it is plain paper.

After using furniture during 3 days it was given to London Event company for using during event “Furniture of the future”. Our cardboard furniture was provided by Foldlife http://foldlife.lv

Tsar Events DMC & PCO welcomes delegates from 24 contries arriving to St. Peterburg this weekend to particpate in 15th Anniversary St. Petersburg International Model United Nations Conference - the biggest SPIMUN during it's history. Tsar Events' Team is very excited and proud to host such inportant project. http://tsar-events.com/spimun/

Tsar Events DMC & PCO on IMEX in Frankfurt, 24-26 May 2011. STAND #G580

We already know our stand number on IMEX in Frankfurt, 24-26 May 2011.
Alexander Rodionov, CMP and his colleaues from Tsar Events DMC & PCO will have stand #G580. Later we will punlish link for appointments. Looking forward to meet all in Germany

Official City Portal Visit-Petersburg.Ru and TSAR EVENTS DMC & PCO

Official City Portal Visit-Petersburg.Ru and TSAR EVENTS DMC & PCO have
signed contract for mutual cooperation focused on promotion and developing
St. Petersburg as congress and incentive tourism destination.
http://www.visit-petersburg.ru/?page=event_full_view&id=1084

New 5 star Hotel and new stadium in Moscow!

New 5 star Hotel will be opened near new football stadium in Moscow.  The construction of new stadium «VTB Arena Park» will start at the end of 2011. Stadium capacity will be 33 000 seats, additionally the construction can be modified with total capacity up to 45 000 seats. Stadium will be a part of a huge multifunctional complex with total area of 32 ha. Complex will include apartments, flats, 5 star hotel, offices, conference halls, restaurants and shopping malls.  The total project cost is $ 1.5 billion.

Company Profile available on Tsar Events website

You can download our Company Profile from our website http://tsar-events.com/ebrochure/

St. Petersburg New Video

Meet Anna Iovleva in MPI EMEC in Dusseldorf

Anna Iovleva, Senior Project Manager in Tsar Events DMC & PCO will participate in European Meetings and Events Conference organized by Meeting Professional International that will take place in Dusseldorf, Germany 13 – 15 February 2011. You can meet her there and discuss all news from St. Peterburg and Moscow. http://www.mpiweb.org/events/emec2011/home

Alexander Rodionov, CMP will participate in MCE CEE Congress in Prague, Czech Republic 13 – 15 February 2011. You can meet him there and discuss all industry news from Russia.

RUSSIA TO REOPEN SPACE TOURISM IN 2013

Good news for everyone!
Space Adventures Ltd. said it agreed with Russia to expand flight opportunities starting in 2013. Three seats for flights to ISS will become available after Russia adds a fifth Soyuz spacecraft to the current four per year.
From 2013, three space tourists per year will be able to book seats on Soyuz flights to the International Space Station (ISS), the Virginia-based company, Space Adventures, said in a statement.
The last space tourist was the Canadian Guy Laliberte, the billionaire founder of Cirque du Soleil, who returned to Earth in October 2009 after an 11-day flight.
The first space tourist, Denis Tito, travelled to the ISS in 2001. All together, seven space tourists have taken part in missions.
Laliberte did not reveal the cost of his ticket, but his predecessor, US software pioneer Charles Simonyi, paid $35 million for his trip.

Astoria Rocco Forte St Petersburg has a new manager

Famous hotel of St. Petersburg has a new manager. Rocco Forte Collection hotel chain has officially announced the appointment of Walter Neumann as general manager of the Astoria hotel in St Petersburg.

Walter Neumann was appointed as general manager of Astoria after resignation from the post of the chief operating director of Travel Charme Hotels & Resorts. Walter Neumann is well acquainted with the peculiarities of the hotel market of St. Petersburg. For three years he headed the room management department in the Grand Hotel Europe, and then took part in the opening of the Clarion North Crown hotel as an assistant director. Then Walter held the position of head of marketing and sales of the Chesma International Tours & Business Travel.

In his new position, Walter Neumann will manage the work of one of the most luxurious and elegant hotels in St. Petersburg, where in each of the 210 rooms are successfully combined classic Russian style and modern design.
Being the attraction of St. Petersburg for nearly 100 years, Astoria has received many famous guests. The hotel is conveniently located in the heart of St. Petersburg on Isaakievskaya Square, so from the windows of many rooms open spectacular views of the majestic St. Isaac's Cathedral, Hermitage, the Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, as well as other historical and cultural monuments of the city located in close proximity.

The Rocco Forte Collection, founded by Sir Rocco Forte in 1996, includes Astoria hotel in St. Petersburg, Brown's Hotel in London, Hotel Amigo in Brussels, Hotel de Russie in Rome, Hotel Savoy in Florence, The Balmoral in Edinburgh, The Lowry Hotel in Manchester, Villa Kennedy in Frankfurt am Main, Hotel de Rome in Berlin, Le Richemond in Geneva, The Charles Hotel in Munich, The Augustine in Prague and the resort of Verdura Golf & Spa Resort in Sicily.

New St. Petersburg Zoo will be designed by French architects



The city’s new zoo will be built to designs drawn up by French architects on six islands in St. Petersburg’s Yuntolovo district in the Primorsky district, with each island symbolizing a different part of world.

The French architectural studio Beckman-N’Thepe Architects won the international contest for the construction of the new zoo in St. Petersburg.

The Frenchmen proposed turning the territory designated for the zoo into an archipelago of six islands with the help of six canals. Each island will present the plant and animal kingdoms of all six continents.

The cost of the French plan is estimated at $395 million and is particularly attractive due to the phased implementation its construction.

The idea of moving the Leningrad Zoo to the Yuntolovo district first arose in 1992. The new zoo will be located on a territory of about 300 hectares.