74 hotels to be built in Astana before EXPO-2017
18:02, 18 April 2014
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - It is planned to build 74 hotel-restaurant complexes in the capital before EXPO 2017, this has been announced by head of the department for tourism, physical culture and sports Aytalap Kurgambayev at a meeting in the House of Entrepreneurs.
"Before EXPO-2017 in Astana we plan to build 74 hotels, 43 of which are in the process of design and construction", he said. According to his words, 178 hotel complexes of different categories operate in Astana today. "Over the past year the average hotels' occupancy rate was 38% which is a very good indicator", said A.Kurgambayev.