When Daniel Ruzicka left for Moscow far back in 2007, he had a vague idea of how long he would have to stay in this unknown country. He had a difficult task: to open a representative office of Czech company Mikenopa that had offices in Czech Republic, Greece and Slovakia at the moment.

Gerold Held, General Manager at Hotel Astoria St. Petersburg (Rocco Forte Hotel), has 30 years experience in the hospitality industry. Recently Mr. Held has been interviewed by the ABT-ACTE Russia official site.

The 15th Annual Russia and CIS HR Directors Summit will take place in Moscow on September 25-26. The press service of the organizational committee has asked Elena Vitchak, Expert Council Member and a speaker of the XVth HR Directors Summit, Vice President on staff, Board member of Sistema JSFC about how the HR industry has changed for these 15 years and what role HR directors play in company management.

General Director of Air Charter Service, Azat Mulgimov, is telling ABT-ACTE Russia about the importance of charters for business travel and about the current situation in the air charter market.

BBT Russia has talked to general manager of one of Moscow’s largest conference hotels, Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre, about the ways to overcome difficulties, new niches of the hospitality market and efficient ways of staff motivation.

45th Moscow International Conference «Airport Facilities Development» and «Airport Technologies and Equipment» exhibition took place on May 27-29, 2014 in Novotel Sheremetyevo.

Galina Berezovskaya, marketing manager of Air Charter Service, is speaking about the difference between a charter and a cheap ticket to Turkey and about why not only top public officials, Oscar-winning film directors or pop-divas, but also average employees can rent a plane, if they want to visit a football match.

State University of Management (SUM) in partnership with the Russian Association of Business Travel (ABT) invites students to take the Master’s degree in «Hotel business».

Senior specialist of the Business and Conference Hotel Attestation Program of ABT-ACTE Russia Elena Kovyazina is speaking about the advantages of the program and the innovations the Russian Association of Business Travel is going to introduce.

Marianna Sleptsova, general director of the hotel, who has been working in it from the moment it opened in 1995 has told ABT Newsletter readers about special aspects of Yakut hospitality.