Carlson Rezidor has plans to debut the Radisson Blu brand in Belarus. The first Radisson Blu hotel will be centrally located in the capital city of Minsk and will house 200 rooms. The upper upscale property will open its doors in Q2 of 2017.
The company has also announced a new Radisson Residence in Zavidovo, a natural reserve located northeast of Moscow. The property will comprise 200 apartments and is scheduled to open in Q4 2014. Carlson Rezidor already operates one Radisson hotel in Zavidovo, opened last summer.
Additionally, Carlson Rezidor introduced a new concept—Welcome Russia—featuring selected Russian-language websites, hotel menus, in-hotel media, and travel guides. The group’s 50 hotels that host the highest number of Russian guests will implement the program in November. 

Other key markets for the group are St. Petersburg and Sochi (each with six hotels in operation and under development). Across Russia and the Baltics, Carlson Rezidor is active in further primary locations such as Tbilisi, Georgia; Astana, Kazakhstan; and Riga, Latvia with Radisson Blu, and has Park Inn by Radisson hotels in destinations such as Yekaterinburg, Veliky Novgorod, and Kazan, Russia; Vilnius, Lithuania; and Baku, Azerbaijan. The group’s most recent openings in Russia were the Radisson Blu Hotel Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow and the Park Inn by Radisson Hotel Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg.
