The first quarter 2010 will be the most difficult period for the Moscow hotels, experts of the market consider. The minimum room rate in qualitative objects of capital can fall twice — below 3 thousand rbl. a day, analysts of company NAI Becar predict.
It will be the lowest indicator for last six years.
The beginning of year always was hard time for hospitable business. The basic demand for hotels in Moscow forms business tourism — an order of 90 %, experts speak. Taking into account that business tourism on the eve of new year and for the long period after it practically dies out, occupancy of hotels falls catastrophically. «Because of low occupancy of rooms of the hotel go on fall of an average level of the price, hence, profitableness for this period decreases», — the head of department of consulting and estimation NAI Becar Margarita Trofimova marks.

Most strongly during this period objects of the top price segment suffer, interlocutors of RBC daily speak. Many companies still have forbidden employees to lodge in the crisis beginning during business trips in five-stars numbers. So, in February, 2009 occupancy of hotels of level five stars in everyday life made only 45 %, and to days off was reduced to 30—35 %. Cost of daily residing in February was in a range of 5,9-13,6 thousand rbl. for number depending on a segment.
As a result of new falling of the prices first quarter 2010 indicators can appear the lowest for last six years. Given companies DTZ testify, what even in 2004, in the beginning of formation of the capital market of hotels, night in hotel  a segment cost 70 euro