For many centuries of its history Jerusalem has been conquered and destroyed a good many time, but it revived again and again in the name of faith, as grand and astonishingly attractive as before.

Travel managers and purchase experts from Saint Petersburg got a unique opportunity to feel the atmosphere of hospitality that fills every detail of daily life in the Middle East — from a traditional way of serving coffee to the highest standards of modern service.

This November the department of business and conference hotel attestation of ABT-ACTE Russia held a random inspection of Moscow hotels that received their certificates more than a year ago.

On December 2 the final educational session of ABT-ACTE Russia was held in the Red Hall of the Metropol. Representatives of the business travel industry shared their professional achievements, spoke about difficulties, compared results of their work with those of their colleagues, discussed prospects and set goals for the next year.

ABT-ACTE Educational session of the «MICE Geography» series devoted to Singapore was held in the Fireplace hall of the Savoy on November 28. Participants and experts discussed corporate event facilities of this country, saw a city in the airport and learned how to reimburse part of travel costs.

ABT-ACTE Russia educational session of the «MICE Geography» series took place in Renaissance Moscow Monarch Centre on November 10. The event that was held in the form of a business breakfast was devoted to Sochi.

The quality of mobile telephony, high speed internet access, a business centre and other criteria worked out by ABT-ACTE Russia to certify business and conference hotels will be decisive in the choice of the best 4* business hotel, according to the independent Russian Hospitality Awards.

On October 14th ABT-ACTE Russia educational session was held in Tyumen for the first time. Participants gathered in Eurasia hotel to discuss burning issues of modern travel management and event arrangement, shared their professional experience, decided to proceed to travel policy optimization and learned a lot of new things about MICE facilities of Abu Dhabi.

The second ABT-ACTE Russia Educational session that was devoted to corporate payment solutions in Russia was held in the Red Hall of the Metropol on October, 7. The event was the continuation of the summer session where business travel experts discussed corporate payment cards for personal use of the staff.

Moscow hoteliers gathered in one of the conference halls of Izmailovo Alfa on October 6: the topic of ABT-ACTE Russia educational seminar was world trends in the market of hotel marketing and advertisement.