Tatarstan raises the hospitality bar

Never let it be said that Euromoney hacks won’t go that extra mile to ensure our readers enjoy the hottest stories from the world’s frontier markets.

But even we have our limits. And at first sight Euromoney’s accommodation for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s annual meeting in Kazan seemed to have gone way past them. Put bluntly, a massive neon hoarding notwithstanding, it had all the visual appeal of an abattoir. And we confess we feared the worst about our time in the capital of Tatarstan.