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Royal Tulip hotels

Dutch cooperative roots lead to full-service hotels with local character in cities and resorts.

Royal Tulip gives Louvre Hotels Group a five-star hotel family above Golden Tulip and Tulip Inn. Launched in 2006, the collection has grown through individual developments and conversions, with a presence in the Gulf, South Asia, Indonesia, and European cities.

10 Royal Tulip hotels in 8 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

Owned by Jin Jiang International
Worldwide: Roughly 20 open hotels, with a concentration in the Gulf, South Asia, and select European capitals
On the atlas: 3 Core Luxury, 4 Accessible Luxury, 3 Near Luxury

History

Golden Tulip began as a cooperative of Dutch hoteliers in 1962. Royal Tulip later gave the family a place for five-star developments above the original brand. Changes in ownership carried the collection into Louvre Hotels Group and Jin Jiang, with new projects extending its reach into the Gulf and Asia.

Timeline

1962 — Six independent Dutch hotels, including Hotel Central in Den Bosch, band together in the Netherlands to found Golden Tulip, explicitly conceived as a European counterweight to the expanding American hotel chains of the era.
1975 — Golden Tulip incorporates as a formal company and continues expanding across Europe over the following decades, later moving its head office to Lausanne, Switzerland to better serve its growing international partner network.
September 2006 — Golden Tulip Hospitality Group, under CEO Hans Kennedie, launches Royal Tulip as a dedicated five-star brand sitting above the four-star Golden Tulip and three-star Tulip Inn, developers had been asking for a luxury flag under the same group for years, and the company projected roughly 40 new hotels within four to five years.
2009 — Starwood Capital Group acquires Golden Tulip Hospitality's franchise, development, and brand business (Royal Tulip, Golden Tulip, and Tulip Inn) for a combined portfolio then running around 1,000 hotels and 82,000 rooms, pairing it strategically with Starwood Capital's existing Louvre Hotels Group (Campanile, Kyriad, Première Classe).
2011 — Louvre Hotels and Golden Tulip formally merge into the single commercial entity Louvre Hotels Group, becoming the world's eighth-largest hotel company and Europe's second-largest, with seven brands spanning one to five stars across 1,000-plus hotels in 40 countries.
2015 — Shanghai-based Jin Jiang International acquires Louvre Hotels Group, bringing Chinese capital and distribution behind Royal Tulip's continued expansion into the Gulf, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.

The houses to know

Royal Tulip Almaty, Almaty, Kazakhstan — A palatial luxury resort set against the backdrop of the Trans-Ili Alatau mountains.
Royal Tulip Warsaw Centre, Warsaw, Poland — A commanding urban flagship in the Polish capital.
Royal Tulip Gunung Geulis Resort & Golf, Puncak, Indonesia — A commanding mountain resort and golf estate outside Jakarta.
Concorde El Salam Hotel Sharm El Sheikh by Royal Tulip, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt — The hotel is in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
Royal Tulip Sand Kolobrzeg, Kolobrzeg, Poland — A refined coastal retreat on the Baltic Sea.
Royal Tulip Muscat, Muscat, Oman — A sleek, contemporary luxury tower in the Omani capital.
Royal Tulip Shimla, Shimla, India — The hotel is in Shimla, India.

Newest openings

Royal Tulip Muscat — Muscat, Oman — The hotel is one of the brand’s addresses in the Omani capital; an opening date is not supplied in our sources.
Royal Tulip Visesa Ubud — Ubud, Indonesia — A sprawling, deeply immersive luxury resort built directly into the rice paddies and cultural heartland of Bali.

Opening next

Louvre Hotels Group continues a franchise-led and managed expansion of the Royal Tulip brand across India, China, and the Gulf, though a single centralized pipeline is not published.