Draft:Bayangol Hotel

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Bayangol hotel
Баянгол зочид буудал
Bayangol Tower B from the balcony of Tower A
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General information
Status Completed
Type hotel
Town or city Ulaanbaatar
Country Mongolia
Bayangol Hotel, Chinggis Avenue-5, Ulaanbaatar 14251, Mongolia
Details
Opened 1964
Rooms 215
Height 40 m (131 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 13
Lifts/elevators 2

Bayangol is a hotel in Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Bayangol hotel alongside Ulaanbaatar hotel are large hotels both located in Sukhbaatar district in Mongolia[1]. The hotel has 215 rooms and has a capacity of 400 guests. The hotel has a big restaurant on the ground floor with a capacity of 500 people and established as one of the first large hotels in Mongolia.[2]

Bayangol hotel has two towers that are both 13 floors high and at the height of 40 meters, it was the tallest hotel in Mongolia for many years[3]. The Hotel comes with a tower A and Tower B with a restaurant and a cafe in the bottom floor. The hotel is listed as a 4 star hotel in Mongolia. The two towers have a red exterior with a large wall that displays an advertisement billboards on it.

History[edit]

The Bayangol hotel was constructed in 1964 and one of the tallest buildings in Mongolia at the time. Chinese construction firm built various large projects around Ulaanbaatar in the 1960s, which included the Ulan Bator hotel, the state department store, the central post office (on the corner of Sukhbaatar Square), (part of) the Bayangol Hotel[4]. In 1991, "Bayangol Hotel" JSC was transformed into a private enterprise through the privatization of government land and became the first privatized hotel[2]. During the Soviet Era, Mongolia was no paradise for foreigners with hard currency, because hard-currency hotel and transport charges for foreigners are high, calculated at something close to the official exchange rate and, no matter how favorable the unofficial rate, there is practically nothing to be bought with tughriks, except postage stamps, occasional trinkets, and books.In the Hotel Bayangols restaurant and bar, change was routinely made with U.S. coins[5]. Any traditional elements of the Mongol empire and Genghis Khan were repressed but the gift shop at the Hotel Bayangol sells a black scroll printed in gold with a portrait of Chinggis Khan at the top and provides a slip with an English translation of the patriotic poem that is lettered in the ancient script "My sacred Lord--the great emperor born by the will of the lofty eternal blue sky Even were I to relax, let my powerful nation never be disunited".[5] After the fall of USSR, where the country still had immense soviet influences, Ulaanbaatar was littered with soviet statues depicting of Lenin nearby Bayangol Hotel and Ulaanbaatar Hotel, two of the largest hotels in the country where foreigners would stay. There has been pushbacks against having communist elements directly next to where foreign travels would stay and Anti-Russian sentiments raised in the 90s[6]. The Hotel was able to achieve 4 star later on and hosts an array of amenities for travelers and remains in service to this day.

Notable Events at Bayangol Hotel[edit]

  • 2019: Kishen Narsi led the Technical Meeting of the ASBC Asian Youth Boxing Championships which was taking place in the Bayangol Hotel.[7]
  • ASEM (Asia- Europe Summit) conferences take place in Bayangol Hotel.[8]
  • 2020: First reported Covid-19 was reported by a french traveler who stayed at the Bayangol Hotel.[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Herro, Margeret (2003). "Ulaanbaatar rapid needs assessment". USAID/CHF Growing Entrepreneurship Rapidly Initiative – via Google Scholar.
  2. ^ a b "Баянгол". Huree.mn (in Mongolian). Retrieved 2024-02-05.
  3. ^ "Bayangol hotel". bayangolhotel.mn. Retrieved 2024-02-06.
  4. ^ Ewing, Thomas (1980). "The Mongolian people's republic today". Asian Affairs. 11 (3): 309–321. doi:10.1080/03068378008729999.
  5. ^ a b Henze, Paul (1989). "Mongolia Faces Glasnost and Perestroika". apps.dtic.mil. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  6. ^ Rossabi, Morris (2005). Modern Mongolia: from khans to commissars to capitalists. London: Univ of California Press. pp. 16–19.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  7. ^ "Mr. Kishen Narsi led the Technical Meeting of the ASBC Asian Youth Boxing Championships which was taking place in the Bayangol Hotel". ASBCNEWS. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  8. ^ https://aseminfoboard.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/ASEM11_Summit_Media_Handbook_YuMbimW.pdf
  9. ^ Б.Анхтуяа (2020-03-10). "Irresponsible Frenchman brings COVID-19 to Mongolia - News.MN". News.MN - The source of news. Retrieved 2024-02-09.