Austrian JUFA Hotels are about to enter the Swiss market. In Savognin, Graubünden, together with the ITW Group of Companies, they are building a four-star hotel with 200 beds. The sustainably built house is scheduled to open in summer 2021.
The first mountain destination of Savognin is being built in the Grisons mountain destination of Savognin Jufa Hotel of Switzerland. The Austrian hotel company is the European market leader in family and group tourism and already operates over 60 hotels in four European countries. A four-star hotel with 75 rooms and around 200 beds is now being added in Savognin. The project was developed locally and is being built using modular timber construction. The JUFA Hotel is expected to generate 30,000 to 35,000 overnight stays in Savognin annually.
It is planned to integrate existing culinary and tourist services into the offer. “Promoting regional value creation is an essential part of our corporate strategy,” Gerhard Wendl, who founded JUFA Hotels 28 years ago and still manages them as director today, told the media in Savognin. “The region and the people living here should benefit from our new hotel.
With our projects, we always seek a symbiosis between tourism benefits, regional added value and improving the quality of life in the project region.”
The Balzers (Liechtenstein) based in Balzers (Liechtenstein) is joining as project developer and investor ITW group of companies on. “Following the failure of our joint project in Wildhaus in the canton of St. Gallen, we have now found a very good project with JUFA in Savognin to continue our investments in tourism,” said Dr. Martin Meyer, CEO of the ITW Group of Companies. With the mineral spa in St. Margrethen (SG) and the project for a health hotel and clinic in St. Moritz (GR), ITW is already heavily involved in tourism in Switzerland.
JUFA Hotels and looking forward to Switzerland
The JUFA hotel in Savognin is built from wooden modules. The “Quadrin” modular system was developed by local timber construction company Uffer AG and has already been successfully built as a hotel or as a student residence. The modules are manufactured in-house from local wood in the Uffer factory in Savognin. “The professional cooperation with ITW and Uffer AG strengthens our conviction that we can implement our concept sustainably and successfully here,” said JUFA managing director Gerhard Wendl.
“We believe that we have found the perfect location for our first JUFA hotel on Swiss soil here in the canton of Grisons and in Savognin as a well-known winter sports location on the connection across the Julier Pass to Italy and with the charm of multilingualism, and we are pleased that our successful family hotel concept is now also taking root in Switzerland. We already have many guests from Switzerland who are vacationing at our hotels. From summer 2021, in addition to the numerous foreign guests, the Swiss will finally have the opportunity to enjoy their holidays in a JUFA hotel in their own country.”
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Visualizations of the project and images from the media conference can be downloaded free of charge: www.fotoswiss.com/-/galleries/media-pools/media-Jufa-Hotel-Savognin
About JUFA Hotels
The JUFA Hotels Group was founded 28 years ago in Austria by Gerhard Wendl, who still manages it today. A total of over 60 hotels in Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Hungary are now part of the JUFA Hotels Group's extensive portfolio. Over 4000 guests a day and thus over 1.6 million overnight stays a year make JUFA Hotels the Europe-wide market leader in group and family tourism. With 1,400 employees, the JUFA Group is also an important and reliable employer. Each hotel project focuses in particular on the diverse opportunities and offers that a holiday region offers.
All this, combined with many years of tourism expertise and the necessary individuality, will also make JUFA Hotels a successful product in Switzerland.
About the ITW Group of Companies
ITW stands for engineering company for technology and economy and can look back on over 45 years of experience in planning and implementing real estate projects. ITW was founded in 1971 as a sole proprietorship by Werner Vogt. In 1973, it became ITW Ingenieurunternehmung AG based in Balzers. The ITW group of companies with its group companies is today a leading, independent real estate and project development service provider with offices in Liechtenstein and Switzerland, which realises high-quality real estate for its own portfolio.
information
JUFA Hotels Austria GmbH, Graz
Martin Seger-Omann
Head of Press & Public Relations
telephone: +43 664 80783 117
presse@jufa.eu
ITW group of companies, Balzers
Dr. Martin Meyer
CEO
telephone: +41 78 664 99 00
martin.meyer@itw.li
Christian Gartmann supports the ITW Group and JUFA Hotels in public relations for the new JUFA Hotel in Savognin.