Radisson reserves room for sixth hotel

Scandinavian Radisson SAS Hotels and Resorts recently announced that Avila Management and Consulting, a German developer, will build a hotel on a plot belonging to the Carmelite monastery on Poznań's Wzgórze Świętego Wojciecha. The project is scheduled for completion by the end of 2007.

According to Agnieszka Kamińska, PR and promotion manager at SAS Group PR Polska, the planned hotel will include 250 rooms, two restaurants offering Polish and international cuisine, conference halls, a fitness center and underground parking lots.

The investor plans to develop the area in cooperation with the monastery and the Catholic Church, thanks to which the design will reflect the historical features of the existing buildings. The hotel will be situated in the city center, close to a number of shopping malls, shops, restaurants, pubs and museums. The hotel will be adapted to the needs of customers traveling on business.

Radisson SAS Hotels and Resorts, belonging to Rezidor SAS Hospitality, already has four hotels across Poland - in Warsaw, Wrocław, Kraków and Szczecin. The fifth one, in Gdańsk, will be opened at the end of June or the beginning of July 2007.

"The decision to open the new hotels are the result of the group's growth strategy, based on the development of the markets in Central and Eastern Europe, Ukraine and Russia within the next few years," says Agnieszka Kamińska.