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Swiss hospitality

Andermatt Swiss Alps: A Wonderland Coming Soon

2012-08-13 by Phil Butler

Andermatt Swiss Alps

Searching exclusive destinations for an end of Summer rush we ran across Andermatt Swiss Alps, situated in a village so often associated with skiing and alpine Winter sports. This legendary destination at the foot of the Gotthard Massif in Switzerland, will soon welcome a year round holiday, property, and sports Mecca of both proportion and uniqueness, we thought you would like to discover.

Tags: hotels five star, Luxury Hotels, Luxury Resorts, mountain resorts, Orascom Hotels, resorts, Samih Sawiris, ski resorts, swiss alps, Swiss hospitality, Switzerland travel

Gstaad Palace: Green, Luxuriant & Progressive Too

2012-03-01 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The view from Gstaad Palace, incomperable

One of the world’s exclusive eco-friendly hotels, the Gstaad Palace, has elected to use Global Hotel Exchange, a revolutionary new online booking platform that makes an ideal bed-fellow for one of Switzerland’s most inventive and luxurious places to stay. As this fabulous Swiss resort proclaims in their video at post’s end, “Gstaad Palace is far more than just a hotel.” Where forward thinking joins old world tradition, excellence resides.

Tags: five star, five-star hotels, G+, g+ pages, GHX, Global Hotel Exchange, Google Plus, Gstaad, Gstaad Palace, Luxury Hotels, Palace Spa, Swiss hospitality, Swiss hotels, Switzerland hotels, Switzerland travel, World hotels

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