If one has traveled through the Bogd mountain road, one might have noticed that construction works started at the west side of Sky Resort.
It is evident that the huge construction project kick started as big trucks are moving back and forth, huge earth dams are rising and people busily engaged at the work site.
We have inquired on which company is operating in the land protected by the State Special Security Department from the sector ministry.
Ch.Batsansar, Head of the State Special Security Land Management Department at the Ministry of the Environment:
-In view of the upcoming ASEM meeting to be held in Ulaanbaatar city the accomodation village is being constructed. The project provisions construction of two storey buildings only and the Ministry issues the licenses for five years with five year extension periods. The environmental impact assessments for the project has been done.
The sources say that the developer is MCS Group and the construction site is dedicated to the project to accomodate high level guests at this ASEM Village. In request to give us more detailed informaiton MCS Group declined by stating that the press conference is to be held in very near future on this project.
Mongolia is the official host country of the ASEM 2016 which is to be held in Ulaanbaatar city.
The last ASEM summit has been hosted by Milan city of Italy in 2014 and high level representatives of 53 countries visited the event involving the delegation of over 5000 guests and participants.
Prime Minister Ch.Saikhanbileg is leading the National Council to ensure the preparation for this even.
Preparations are being held in five directions having five separate working groups responsible. Hosting the ASEM event in Mongolia is the biggest opportunity to advertise to the world.
P.Tsagaan, Head of the President's Office, leads the hotel accomotation and conference hall working group of the ASEM meeting.
-Construction of ASEM Village has started. How many buildings are projected and how the financing was solved?
-ASEM Village is to accomodate the high level delegates from 53 countries to ensure the safety and security. As the project is under the private company I cannot comment in details on the project, but the housings are to be built in econ friendly way utilizing the solar panels for the electricity generation. I am responsible for the hotels and conference halls for the ASEM event.
-How the hotel issues are being addressed? We all know that there are not enough hotels and accomodations to receive the high level delegates.
-Preliminary list of the hotels onclude 30 hotels in Ulaanbaatar city and in here we tried to involve all the possible accomodations covering 3rd and 4th microdistrict to Jukov Statue and 4th grocery store to Zaisan and Ikh Tenger area. In June commencement of Shangri-La hotel is scheduled, with the biggest conference hall available in Ulaanbaatar. This event is seen as the opportunity to improve the hospitality sector in Mongolia and increase the inflow of tourists. In this regard we are organizing the training sessions for the service providers and food catering services with view of improving the hotel rankings by 1-2 stars. This is the one of kind opportunity for us to show each other how public and private partnership can work.
-How much funds are planned for the improvement of the currently operating hotels?
-The funding of the hotel upgrading project is to be discussed by the cabinet soon as we are aiming to improve the supply and upgrade the hotels.
-How many participants and guests are to attend the ASEM? There were over 5000 participants during the Milan summit.
-7-8 series of events to preceed the 2016 ASEM summit. First events are to kick start in autum of this year until July of 2016. Each preceeding event will be attended by 400-4000 participants and guests. Over 7000 participants are projected to attend the ASEM 2016 summit.
If one has traveled through the Bogd mountain road, one might have noticed that construction works started at the west side of Sky Resort.
It is evident that the huge construction project kick started as big trucks are moving back and forth, huge earth dams are rising and people busily engaged at the work site.
We have inquired on which company is operating in the land protected by the State Special Security Department from the sector ministry.
Ch.Batsansar, Head of the State Special Security Land Management Department at the Ministry of the Environment:
-In view of the upcoming ASEM meeting to be held in Ulaanbaatar city the accomodation village is being constructed. The project provisions construction of two storey buildings only and the Ministry issues the licenses for five years with five year extension periods. The environmental impact assessments for the project has been done.
The sources say that the developer is MCS Group and the construction site is dedicated to the project to accomodate high level guests at this ASEM Village. In request to give us more detailed informaiton MCS Group declined by stating that the press conference is to be held in very near future on this project.
Mongolia is the official host country of the ASEM 2016 which is to be held in Ulaanbaatar city.
The last ASEM summit has been hosted by Milan city of Italy in 2014 and high level representatives of 53 countries visited the event involving the delegation of over 5000 guests and participants.
Prime Minister Ch.Saikhanbileg is leading the National Council to ensure the preparation for this even.
Preparations are being held in five directions having five separate working groups responsible. Hosting the ASEM event in Mongolia is the biggest opportunity to advertise to the world.
P.Tsagaan, Head of the President's Office, leads the hotel accomotation and conference hall working group of the ASEM meeting.
-Construction of ASEM Village has started. How many buildings are projected and how the financing was solved?
-ASEM Village is to accomodate the high level delegates from 53 countries to ensure the safety and security. As the project is under the private company I cannot comment in details on the project, but the housings are to be built in econ friendly way utilizing the solar panels for the electricity generation. I am responsible for the hotels and conference halls for the ASEM event.
-How the hotel issues are being addressed? We all know that there are not enough hotels and accomodations to receive the high level delegates.
-Preliminary list of the hotels onclude 30 hotels in Ulaanbaatar city and in here we tried to involve all the possible accomodations covering 3rd and 4th microdistrict to Jukov Statue and 4th grocery store to Zaisan and Ikh Tenger area. In June commencement of Shangri-La hotel is scheduled, with the biggest conference hall available in Ulaanbaatar. This event is seen as the opportunity to improve the hospitality sector in Mongolia and increase the inflow of tourists. In this regard we are organizing the training sessions for the service providers and food catering services with view of improving the hotel rankings by 1-2 stars. This is the one of kind opportunity for us to show each other how public and private partnership can work.
-How much funds are planned for the improvement of the currently operating hotels?
-The funding of the hotel upgrading project is to be discussed by the cabinet soon as we are aiming to improve the supply and upgrade the hotels.
-How many participants and guests are to attend the ASEM? There were over 5000 participants during the Milan summit.
-7-8 series of events to preceed the 2016 ASEM summit. First events are to kick start in autum of this year until July of 2016. Each preceeding event will be attended by 400-4000 participants and guests. Over 7000 participants are projected to attend the ASEM 2016 summit.