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Lotte Hotels hotels

Grand Korean city hotels place guests within a wider world of shopping, business and entertainment.

Lotte Hotels grew from Shin Kyuk-ho’s wish to invest in hospitality in his native South Korea after building his business in Japan. The opening of Lotte Hotel Seoul established the foundation for a collection whose grand city hotels remain closely connected to the Lotte family of brands.

18 Lotte Hotels hotels in 7 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by Lotte Group
• Worldwide: 40 operating hotels and resorts as of July 2026 — 25 domestic and 15 international — across Signiel, The Grand Lotte, Lotte Hotel, L7, Lotte City Hotel, and Lotte Resort; senior residences and golf clubs are excluded.
• On the atlas: 7 Core Luxury, 10 Accessible Luxury, 1 Near Luxury

History

Shin Kyuk-ho saw hotel development as a way to contribute to South Korea’s economy. That ambition gave Lotte Hotel Seoul a substantial place in the company’s history. The later Signiel towers carried the interest in major architecture into a new hotel expression, making height and the city view part of the experience.

Timeline

• 1948 — Shin Kyuk-ho founds Lotte in Tokyo as a chewing gum manufacturer, naming the company after the heroine of Goethe's novel.
• 1967 — Shin expands to South Korea with the founding of Lotte Confectionery in Seoul.
• 1970 — South Korean President Park Chung-hee entrusts Shin with developing the country's hospitality sector; Lotte forms an internal task force to plan the venture.
• 1973 — Hotel Lotte is formally established in May, acquiring the 1938-built Bando Hotel site in Seoul's Sogong-dong district for redevelopment.
• 1979 — Lotte Hotel Seoul opens in March, the largest luxury hotel in Asia at the time and a symbolic launch point for Korea's modern tourism industry.
• 1989 — Lotte World opens, the world's largest indoor amusement, entertainment, shopping, and hotel complex, extending the group's hospitality ambitions well beyond hotels alone.
• 2017–2020 — The Signiel sub-brand launches with Signiel Seoul (2017) inside the Lotte World Tower, followed by Signiel Busan (2020), marking the group's push into ultra-luxury vertical hotels.
• 2023 — Hotel Lotte marks its 50th anniversary, framing its next chapter around cultural and tourism content alongside its existing hotel, duty-free, and theme park businesses.
• 2026 — The main building of Lotte Hotel Seoul reopens on 14 August as The Grand Lotte Seoul, the first new Lotte luxury line since Signiel, built on the 1979 flagship's heritage rather than on height.

The houses to know

1. Lotte Hotel Seattle, Seattle, United States — Philippe Starck’s interiors give the hotel a contemporary Seattle home within F5 Tower.
2. Lotte New York Palace, New York City, United States — The 1882 Villard Houses, six Neo-Italian-Renaissance townhouses railroad tycoon Henry Villard commissioned from McKim, Mead & White, fronting a 51-story tower added when the site became New York's first five-star hotel under Harry and Leona Helmsley.
3. Lotte Hotel St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia — The 273-room hotel stands within a short walk of St. Isaac’s Cathedral in a historic part of the city.
4. Lotte Hotel Moscow, Moscow, Russia — A 300-room hotel near the Kremlin and Red Square, one of the group's longest-running properties outside Korea and Japan.
5. Lotte Hotel Jeju, Jeju, South Korea — WATG’s resort design brings Lotte to Jeju’s Jungmun Tourism Complex.
6. Lotte Hotel Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam — The former Legend Hotel gives Lotte a riverside tower in Ho Chi Minh City.
7. Lotte Hotel Yangon, Yangon, Myanmar — SAMOO Architects designed the 28-storey, lotus-inspired tower that opened in Yangon in 2017.
8. The Grand Lotte Seoul, Seoul, South Korea — The Sogong-dong hotel began Lotte’s hospitality story in 1979; in 2026 its main building returned as the first house of The Grand Lotte.
9. Lotte Hotel Seoul Executive Tower, Seoul, South Korea — A substantial renovation gave the older Seoul tower a new Executive identity in 2018.
10. Lotte Hotel World, Seoul, South Korea — The Jamsil tower connects the hotel closely to Lotte World and the neighborhood’s Olympic-era development.

Newest openings

• The Grand Lotte Seoul (August 2026) — not a new building but a relaunch: the renovated 1979 main building of Lotte Hotel Seoul, first house of The Grand Lotte line.

Opening next

• No confirmed announcements were identified in the sources reviewed through 2026-08-28.

Every Lotte Hotels hotel on the atlas

South Korea

• Lotte Hotel Jeju — Jeju · Core Luxury
• Lotte Hotel Busan — Busan · Accessible Luxury
• Lotte Hotel Seoul Executive Tower — Seoul · Accessible Luxury
• Lotte Hotel Ulsan — Ulsan · Accessible Luxury
• Lotte Hotel World — Seoul · Accessible Luxury
• The Grand Lotte Seoul — Seoul · Accessible Luxury

Russia

• Lotte Hotel Moscow — Moscow · Core Luxury
• Lotte Hotel St. Petersburg — St. Petersburg · Core Luxury
• Lotte Hotel Samara — Samara · Accessible Luxury
• Lotte Hotel Vladivostok — Vladivostok · Accessible Luxury

United States

• Lotte Hotel Seattle — Seattle · Core Luxury
• Lotte New York Palace — New York City · Core Luxury
• The New Yorker by Lotte Hotels — New York City · Near Luxury

Vietnam

• Lotte Hotel Saigon — Ho Chi Minh City · Core Luxury
• Lotte Hotel Hanoi — Hanoi · Accessible Luxury

Guam

• Lotte Hotel Guam — Tamuning · Accessible Luxury

Japan

• Lotte Arai Resort — Myoko · Accessible Luxury

Myanmar

• Lotte Hotel Yangon — Yangon · Core Luxury

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