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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitality |
| Founded | 1981; 44 years ago (1981)[1] |
| Headquarters | Zurich Airport Kloten,Switzerland |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Hotels |
| Parent | Accor |
| Website | swissotel.com |
Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts, commonly known asSwissôtel, is a Swiss chain of luxuryhotels owned byAccor, which acquiredFRHI Hotels & Resorts in 2015.[2]
The corporate offices for Swissôtel are located in the Prioria Business Centre on the property ofZurich Airport inKloten,Switzerland,[3][4] nearZürich.[5]
Swissôtel was founded in 1981 as a joint venture between theSwissair andNestlé groups, with its headquarters in theSwiss city ofZürich. Initially, hotels were operated inBern,New York City,Geneva andZürich. In 1990, the hotel group became a fully owned subsidiary of the Swissair group, and in 1996, its head office moved from Zürich to New York.[6]
In 2001, with the parent airline in the serious financial difficulties due to the events of9/11 that year in theUnited States that eventually lead to its demise, Swissôtel was sold toRaffles Holdings Limited, the owner of the famousRaffles Hotel inSingapore. In July 2005,Colony Capital, a private international investment firm, acquired Raffles International Limited, the company that by this stage owned both the Raffles and Swissôtel brands.[6]
In May 2006, Colony Capital, together withKingdom Hotels International, acquiredFairmont Hotels & Resorts. With the completion of the transaction, the Fairmont and Raffles International portfolios were combined, transforming the companies into a global hotel leader (headquartered inToronto) calledFairmont Raffles Hotels International, with 120 hotels in 23 countries under three brands – Fairmont, Raffles and Swissôtel. After the transaction, the corporate office of Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts moved back to Zürich, where it was headed by its president, Meinhard Huck, who retired in 2013.
In December 2015,AccorHotels purchased Swissôtel, along with Raffles and Fairmont hotels, in a $2.9 billion deal.[2]
In May 2025,Asset World Corporation (AWS) purchased Swissôtel Bangkok Ratchada for 8.7 Billion Baht ($266 Million) to renovate as premium mixed-used and rebranded as Jubilee Prestige Tower under new ownership in collaboration withMarriott International Asia Pacific Division,[7] which operated its hotel under JW Marriott Bangkok Ratchadapisek brand. The hotel and its mixed-used building officially opened on 1 October 2025.[8]
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Swissôtel currently has 40 properties worldwide.[9] The company also offers Swissôtel Livingserviced apartments in five properties (two as part of hotels and three standalones).[10]
| No. | Property | Location | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swissôtel Al Ghurair Dubai | Dubai |  United Arab Emirates |
| 2 | Swissôtel Al Maqam Makkah | Mecca |  Saudi Arabia |
| 3 | Swissôtel Al Murooj Dubai | Dubai | United Arab Emirates |
| 4 | Swissôtel Amsterdam | Amsterdam |  Netherlands |
| 5 | Swissôtel Bangkok Ratchada | Bangkok |  Thailand |
| 6 | Swissôtel Beijing Hong Kong Macau Center | Beijing |  China |
| 7 | Swissôtel Büyük Efes | İzmir |  Turkey |
| 8 | Swissôtel Chicago | Chicago |  United States |
| 9 | Swissôtel Clark | Clark |  Philippines |
| 10 | Swissôtel Damian Jasna | Demänovská Dolina |  Slovakia |
| 11 | Swissôtel Foshan Guangdong | Foshan | China |
| 12 | Swissôtel Grand Shanghai | Shanghai | China |
| 13 | Swissôtel Jakarta PIK Avenue | Jakarta |  Indonesia |
| 14 | Swissôtel Krasnye Holmy | Moscow |  Russia |
| 15 | Swissôtel Kursaal Bern | Bern |  Switzerland |
| 16 | Swissôtel Lima | Lima |  Peru |
| 17 | Swissôtel Living Bodrum[11] | Bodrum | Turkey |
| 18 | Swissôtel Living Jakarta Mega Kuningan[12] | Jakarta | Indonesia |
| 19 | Swissôtel Living Jeddah[13] | Jeddah | Saudi Arabia |
| 20 | Swissôtel Makkah | Mecca | Saudi Arabia |
| 21 | Swissôtel Nankai Osaka | Osaka |  Japan |
| 22 | Swissôtel Nusantara | Nusantara | Indonesia |
| 23 | Swissôtel Poiana Brasov | Brașov |  Romania |
| 24 | Swissôtel Quito | Quito |  Ecuador |
| 25 | Swissôtel Resort & Spa Çeşme | Çeşme | Turkey |
| 26 | Swissôtel Resort Bodrum Beach | Bodrum | Turkey |
| 27 | Swissôtel Resort Changbaishan | Baishan | China |
| 28 | Swissôtel Resort Kolašin | Kolašin |  Montenegro |
| 29 | Swissôtel Resort Sochi Kamelia | Sochi | Russia |
| 30 | Swissôtel Santa Cruz de la Sierra | Santa Cruz de la Sierra |  Bolivia |
| 31 | Swissôtel Sarajevo | Sarajevo |  Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 32 | Swissôtel Sharm El Sheikh | Sharm El Sheikh |  Egypt |
| 33 | Swissôtel Shenyang | Shenyang | China |
| 34 | Swissôtel Sydney | Sydney |  Australia |
| 35 | Swissôtel Tallinn | Tallinn |  Estonia |
| 36 | Swissôtel Tbilisi | Tbilisi |  Georgia |
| 37 | Swissôtel The Bosphorus Istanbul | Istanbul | Turkey |
| 38 | Swissôtel The Stamford Singapore | Singapore |  Singapore |
| 39 | Swissôtel Uludağ Bursa | Bursa | Turkey |
| 40 | Swissôtel Wellness Resort Alatau Almaty | Almaty |  Kazakhstan |
In November 2017, the Peruvian football playerPaolo Guerrero tested positive for a metabolite ofcocaine in the run up to the2018 FIFA World Cup.[14] His defence was that he had accidentally consumed the substance in herbal tea that was contaminated withcoca tea[15] at the Swissôtel inLima,Peru.[16]
Guerrero stated that the Swissôtel hindered him in obtaining evidence that was needed to sustain his case before theCourt of Arbitration for Sport:
The hotel was an important factor that hurt me, that is very clear, when I came here to Peru to find the evidence of how this had been caused, the Swissotel turned its back on me, they did not support me at any time. What I wanted to know was the truth.[17][18]
They threatened the waiter so he would not talk. At the hotel they did not allow us to talk to him.[19]
In response, Peruvian citizens criticized Swissôtel, making negative comments in social networks likeFacebook,Twitter andTripAdvisor, and calling for marches and boycotts against the hotel.[16][19][20]
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