In March 2003, Interros sets up the Rosa Khutor development company in order to spearhead the alpine ski resort construction project.

Rosa Khutor wins a competition for long-term leasing rights for land in Sochi National Park intended for the construction of a mountain ski resort.

Interros publicly announces the plan to develop the Rosa Khutor alpine ski resort.
In February, a call for tenders for the general design of the Rosa Khutor project is put out. The best offers are submitted by AMR and AST (Austria), Dianeige and Gorimpex (France), and ILF and Strabag (Austria). The tender board chooses ILF and Strabag, and charges the two partner entities with drafting a construction plan for the resort that complies with Russian Federation construction standards and regulations as well as environmental protection requirements.

Rosa Khutor wins a second tender to lease 125 hectares of land on the Rosa Khutor Plateau, bringing to 537 hectares the total area of leased land in Sochi National Park. Rosa Khutor’s phase I construction plans are endorsed by Rosprirodnadzor, Russia's environmental protection agency.

July 4, the IOC chooses Sochi to host the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Rosa Khutor was a key venue in the bid submitted by the Russian Olympic Committee.

Rosa Khutor implements various environmental protection measures. For example, in June the mountain ski resort and Sochi National Park conduct a joint event to plant 200 beech and pine saplings in a former industrial zone. In addition, representatives of Sochi National Park and Rosa Khutor also work to beautify the Rosa Khutor plateau and landscape the slopes. The mountain ski resort also awards a grant of 300,000 rubles to the director of Sochi National Park to enhance environmental education, raise awareness regarding environmental protection, and establish eco-tourism.

Rosa Khutor hotels were fully booked over the winter holidays. The summer season also surpassed expectations: 750 thousand guests have stayed at the resort since the 1st of June, which is 20% higher than in the 2014 — 2015 winter season, and 75% higher year-on-year. Over the course of the year, more than 1.35 million visitors will have come to enjoy our hospitality.

The hotel features the Miracle Park, a new kind of entertainment complex for families, the beach area Rosa Beach, and Rosa Khutor’s private beach on the shore of Imeretinsky cove. The resort’s very own high-speed train now connects Rosa Khutor and Krasnodar. Tourists can buy a package deal — a new product on the Russian tourism market — that includes flight and transfer. A large number of competitions and festivals take place at the resort, including Russia’s alpine skiing championship, the Generation NEXT festival, and many others.

According to Ipso MORI, a leading British tourism research company, Rosa Khutor is now one of the most affordable ski resorts in Europe. According to a joint study completed by Aviasales and Hotellook, Rosa Khutor is also the most affordable resort for Russian tourists. In 2015, for the third time, Rosa Khutor was named Russia’s best ski resort by the World Ski Awards, an «Oscar» of the tourism industry. The resort also won an award in the domestic competition «Five Stars in Hospitality» in the «Russia without Barriers» category.

The Alley of the Olympic Champions is being laid out at the resort. The Rosa Square now features star-shaped name plates for Lidiya Skoblikova, Aleksandra Zaitseva, Svetlana Ishmouratova, Irina Rodnina, Tatiana Navka, and Roman Kostomarov.

Rosturism, Russia’s Tourism Federal Agency, and the Rosa Khutor ski resort announced the launch of a strategic partnership to foster comprehensive and effective development of tourism for domestic tourists and foreign travelers in Russia.

January: Rosa Springs, the first curative water spa resort at Krasnaya Polyana, opens its doors to visitors in the Olympic Village at Rosa Khutor.

May: The Russian Post Office puts out a stamp depicting the Rosa Khutor resort, with a print run of 402,000 copies.

June: Rosa Khutor is celebrated as the Best Ski Resort in Russia at the XII International Industry Congress on Winter Sports, which was organized with the support of the Russian Ministry of Sport.

November: Rosa Khutor is awarded Russia’s Best Ski Resort at the World Ski Awards for the fourth year in a row.

Rosa Khutor becomes a symbol of Sochi. Internet users suggest that a picture of the ski resort be used on Russia’s new bank notes

In preparation for the 2016/2017 ski season, ski runs are extended from 77 to 94 kilometers, and three cable cars are put into operation. Two cable cars help ease the crowds at the base: Driada, carrying 2800 people per hour over 2145 meters, and Tundra, carrying 2400 people per hour over 1533 meters. The Edelweiss chair lift, on the southern slope of the Aibga Ridge, can carry 2400 people per hour over 2658 meters, increasing access to the ski area on that side of the mountain

The resort has increased its capacity by 50% and can now handle 20,000 people per day.

In 2016, Rosa Khutor received almost 2 million visitors, nearly 600,000 more than in the previous year. The increase was mostly due to summer bookings.

At the start of the year, Rosa Khutor launched a partnership discount program with Kitzbuhel, an Austrian ski resort.

Flacon — a design and creativity incubator -opened FLACON 1170, a new art-studio in residence at the ski resort.

In February, the first direct flight from Germany, organized by the resort and operated by Condor Airlines, brought tourists to Sochi.

Rosa Khutor became the 13th out of the one hundred most popular tourism brand in Russia.

More than 800 thousand people stayed at the resort over the winter season.

More activities were on offer at Rosa Khutor last summer, including a new trail to visit the Mendeliha waterfall park, a trampoline park, a summer movie theater, and a festival of Turkish Greco-Roman culture, organized with the support from Coral Travel.

Rosa Khutor, in collaboration with the tourism portal OneTwoTrip, launched a new service enabling guests to search for deals and purchase airline and railroad tickets on the resort’s website.

Dream Skis is a new program of physical rehabilitation for children with disabilities that was launched at Rosa Khutor at the end of December.

The mountain resort Rosa Khutor won the prestigious World Ski Awards as Russia’s best resort fifth time in as many years, and received the first consumer choice in hospitality Golden Prometheus award for «brand of the year».

2018 kicked off with a fundraiser hockey game, in which Vladimir Potanin himself played alongside hockey stars. The game collected 2 million rubles to benefit the «Ski Dreams» rehabilitation program for children. In February the Resort inaugurated its sustainable development program, which is designed to help Rosa Khutor become even more environmentally friendly and client-oriented.

In the beginning of March, the Resort won the «You Shall be Proud!» professional tourism award in the Showcase Tourism Project category.

At the end of April, the Resort arranged the release of «Alpine Skiing in Russia: History to Modern Days», the first book on the development of alpine skiing in our country since the beginning of the 20th century. In the beginning of May, the Resort obtained yet another award — the «Sport and Russia» national award in the «Best Sports Resort of the Year» category. The Resort’s beach in the Imeretinsk Valley received the Blue Flag certification from the international Federation for Environmental Education (FEE), which is a label of eco-quality. Later in the month, as part of its sustainable development program, the Resort launched a daily collection program for recyclables. At the very end of the month, the Resort announced plans to build a new two-kilometer long cable car on the southern slope of the Aibga ridge. On June 14, the highest altitude soccer park in the world opened to host the World Cup. During the month of the World Cup, 300 thousand people visited the Resort.

In the beginning of August, the Resort put in place hospitality standards which encompass six key components of good service: speed, comfort, transparency, accessibility, friendliness, and efficiency.

In October, Rosa Khutor was recognized for its «outstanding contribution to the development of conference services in Russia» as it received the Russian Business Travel & MICE Award, an annual award for business travel professionals. At the end of the month, Interros held an international conference at Rosa Khutor Resort: «Sustainable Tourism: Global Challenges and Discovering Russia», an event that attracted managers of protected natural territories, political and business leaders, and international experts in sustainable tourism. In November, Rosa Khutor was recognized as Russia’s best alpine ski resort by World Ski Awards for the 6th time in a row.

In early January, the resort hosts a traditional hockey match with the participation of hockey stars and Vladimir Potanin personally. In the same month, Rosa Khutor and the Kazakh ski resort Shymbulak signed a cooperation agreement.

In the second half of February, the Radisson Rosa Khutor hotel for the second time receives the status of «The Best Ski Hotel in Russia» according to the Russian Hospitality Awards.

In early March, the Rosa Khutor Museum of Archeology becomes the winner of the Golden Bear National Prize. At the end of the same month, the resort hosts the Russian Cup final and the Snowboard European Cup Sochi. According to the results of the winter season, the number of visitors reaches 860 thousand people.

In April, the resort is awarded the «Sport and Russia» award in the «Best Sports Resort of the Year» nomination.

In July, Rosa Khutor becomes a strategic partner of educational programs at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.

The balneological hotel Rosa Springs is for the first time included in the rating of investment attractiveness «TOP-100 Russian health resorts». Agency TurStat recognizes Rosa Khutor as the most popular resort for outdoor activities in the CIS countries.

In September, the resort publishes its first sustainability report.

Rosa Khutor was recognized as Russia’s best alpine ski resort by World Ski Awards for the 7th time in a row.

In December, Rosa Khutor tops the 20 Minutes Swiss magazine's Best Ski Resorts in Europe 2019 ranking.