As respresentatives of the Irkutsk Town-Planning Committee say, Ibis International Hotel Networl’s administration has already chosen a ground area for the new hotel. It will be built in the center of the city not far from the Courtyard by Marriott Irkutsk City Center which was opened on the 1^st of November 2011.

Moreover, the Committee representatives say, that in 2011 the city administration received a proposal to build a hotel of Hyatt Hotels Corporation which is an American hotel network. Representatives of the Hyatt are now looking for a place in the center of the city to build a five-star hotel.

The Committee is sure that such a big interest of foreign hotel companies is determined by the closeness of Irkutsk to the Lake Baikal which has a huge touristic potential.