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Статьи с меткой: Winepark
19.11.2021
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Situated near Yalta on the southern coast of the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula, the hotel Mriya Resort & Spa has been on the list of winners of the London-based World Travel Awards (WTA) since 2015. This year the hotel won two trophies, the titles of Europe’s Leading Leisure Resort 2021 and Europe’s Leading Luxury Family Resort 2021. And not just that. Mriya’s affiliate, “WINEPARK by Mriya” received the awards of Europe’s Leading New Tourist Attraction 2021 and Europe’s Leading Wine Tourism Attraction 2021.
This story is truly special because this hotel complex, popular among the Russian rich, officials, businessmen, and the company Garant-SV LLC that owns the hotel, as well as their ultimate owner, Sberbank of Russia, are under Western and Ukrainian sanctions.
In their investigative article on the matter, the Ukrainian media project Center for Journalistic Investigations (CJI) investigated how this sanctioned hotel takes part in a global, albeit commercial, tourist competition, and how the British organizer of the award violates the sanctions.
