Sofitel Luxury Hotels

Sofitel Luxury Hotels
Privately held subsidiary
Industry Hotel
Founded 1964
Headquarters Strasbourg, France
Number of locations
 120 addresses in over 40 countries
Area served
 Global
Parent Accor
Slogan Life is Magnifique
Website www.sofitel.com

Sofitel Luxury Hotels is a French normal hotel chain under Accor, which opened its first property in Strasbourg in 1964. Its first overseas opening (in Minneapolis, USA) was in 1974. In 1995, Sofitel had 100 hotels in 40 countries and employed 12,500 people. Two years later, Sofitel joined the Accor Group, founded in 1983 and in 2000, opened properties in Philadelphia and New York. In 2005, Sofitel continued its expansion with Sofitel Asia Pacific. In 2007, Sofitel created a strategy to compete on the international luxury hotel market with its French Touch and the slogan "Life is magnifique". This rebranding helped to move Sofitel into the high end of the hotel industry. In the following year, Sofitel became its own unit in the Accor group with 120 Hotels worldwide.

Sofitel Munich Bayerpost at sunset July 6th 2012

Sofitel Legend

Live the Legend

The hotels in the Sofitel Legend subbrand are located in historic buildings that have been newly renovated.

Sofitel Legend addresses

So Sofitel

The new boutique sub brand

Launched in 2011, Sofitel So is the new brand label, a collection of designer boutique hotels created by a famous name from the world of fashion, the arts or design.

First label hotel was Sofitel So Mauritius Bel Ombre. Sofitel So Singapore is scheduled in 2013. Future Sofitel So hotels are planned with Sofitel So Mumbai in India, Sofitel So Rio Ipanema in Brazil and Sofitel So Auckland in New Zealand.

So Spa

So Spa is the spas and treatment rooms found in 28 Sofitel Hotels across the world.

Awards

Different Sofitels around the world were voted the best hotel of its kind by the Readers of Business Traveller Magazine; Sofitel London Heathrow, for example, was voted the Best Airport Hotel and the Best Business Hotel in the UK.[1] The same magazine voted the Sofitel Berlin Gendarmenmarkt the World's Best Small City Hotel in 2009. The Sofitel Buenos Aires, Sofitel Cartagena Santa Clara, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Sofitel Angkor Phokeethra Golf and Spa Resort can be found on the Condé Nast Traveler Gold List 2010. Sofitel London St. James was ranked the 8th in UK business hotels of the Readers' Travel Awards 2010.[2]
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Addresses

Africa

Americas

Asia

Middle East

Oceania

Europe

References

  1. ↑ "Business Traveller Awards 2009". Business Traveller. 21 September 2009. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  2. ↑ "Readers’ Travel Awards 2010 - Accommodation: UK business hotels". Conde Nast Traveller. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  3. ↑ "Voted top hotel chain in the United Kingdom 2014". Conde Nast Traveller. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "Hotel Sofitel Montevideo Casino Carrasco and Spa" (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.sofitel.com/saigon
  6. ↑ http://www.sofitel.com/saigon
  7. ↑ http://www.sofitel.com/gb/hotel-6215-sofitel-wanda-beijing/index.shtml?utm_source=contemporan
  8. ↑ "Hotel Sofitel Dubai Jumeira Beach". Retrieved 25 May 2013.

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