Russian resort to add more capacity

The Tigre de Cristal casino resort will add villas and serviced apartments next summer, the firm’s COO advanced.

Russia.- The Tigre de Cristal casino resort in the Russian region of Primorye will soon get larger, a company executive revealed. According to chief operating officer, Stylianos Tsifetakis, the operator plans to add a number of villas and serviced apartments to the property next summer, as the project gets ready to open its second phase.

“By next summer, we plan to build new rooms and a small restaurant, right next to the existing property,” the executive told GGRAsia in an interview. “We plan to build about eight villas and approximately 20 to 22 serviced apartments. This expansion would allow us to accommodate about 90 people,” he added.

“One of the biggest challenges we face nowadays is the lack of room capacity, and we have made plans to expand [our room inventory] by next summer and we are progressing very well with the design of phase two,” Tsifetakis explained and added: “The first stage of phase two is going to be an investment of €215.8 million to €259 million, and we plan to add 300 rooms, another gaming venue, conference space and restaurants, and a large shopping mall, taking into consideration that Vladivostok will become a duty-free zone within Russia.”