Who will staff Moscows hotels?
The last several years have seen considerable developments in Moscow’s hotel, restaurant and cafe industry infrastructures, including an increase in the number of new, comfortable hotels. Needless to say, high-class hotels need high-class personnel. There are approximately 60 schools in Moscow alone preparing specialists in hotel services and the tourism industry, a hopeful sign that the shortage of high-class hotel-service personnel will be resolved over the next decade. The personnel issue is one of the most acute issues today, and many projects depend on its resolution. At the end of last year, the Moscow Mayor’s Office considered a project of developing Moscow into a center of tourism. It was resolved to build a “Golden Ring of Moscow” chain of high-class hotels. City-development plans up to the year 2020 call for building new hotels and reconstructing existing ones to a total of thousands of suites, mostly in the central part of the city, and places of tourist accommodation. New h
