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Tschuggen Collection hotels
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The Tschuggen Collection brings family-owned Swiss hotels together across Arosa, St. Moritz, and Lake Maggiore. Karl-Heinz Kipp began with the Tschuggen Grand Hotel in 1980, and the collection grew one address at a time, with each hotel retaining its own name through the group’s 2022 rebranding.
3 Tschuggen Collection hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.
- Owned by the Kipp-Bechtolsheimer family
- Worldwide: 4 hotels, all in Switzerland — Tschuggen Grand Hotel and Valsana Hotel & Appartements (both Arosa), Carlton Hotel St. Moritz, and Hotel Eden Roc (Ascona, Lake Maggiore). The atlas currently tracks three of the four; Hotel Eden Roc Ascona is not yet a filed hotel and is flagged here as a completeness-project gap.
- On the atlas: 1 Apex Luxury, 2 Grand Luxury
History
Karl-Heinz Kipp gathered the Tschuggen hotels through individual acquisitions and passed the collection into the next generations of his family. Architecture later gave the hotels some of their most recognizable features, particularly Mario Botta’s mountain spa. Environmental commitments became another substantial part of the collection’s contemporary identity.
Timeline
- 1883 — The future Tschuggen Grand Hotel opens in Arosa as Sanatorium Berghilf, a lung sanatorium founded by Otto and Marie Herwig.
- 1929 — The sanatorium becomes the Tschuggen Grand Hotel, repositioned for winter sports tourism.
- 1966 — Fire destroys the original Tschuggen Grand Hotel building.
- 1970 — The rebuilt hotel reopens after a four-year reconstruction.
- 1971 — Hotel Eden Roc opens in Ascona on Lake Maggiore, built from three combined structures.
- 1980 — Karl-Heinz Kipp buys the Tschuggen Grand Hotel, founding what becomes the Tschuggen Hotel Group.
- Mid-1980s — Kipp buys the Sporthotel Valsana in Arosa, folding it into the young group as its second Arosa property.
- 1980s — Kipp buys the bankrupt Carlton Hotel St. Moritz and later gives it a 90 million Swiss franc facelift; he turns down an investor offer of nearly CHF 200 million to convert it into apartments.
- 1989 — Kipp buys Hotel Eden Roc in Ascona, completing the four-hotel portfolio he had pursued for years.
- 2006 — The Tschuggen Bergoase spa opens at the Tschuggen Grand Hotel, a 5,000 m² spa carved four levels into the Arosa mountainside, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta with signature glass "light sail" skylights.
- 2007 — The private Tschuggen Express gondola opens, giving hotel guests ski-in/ski-out access from the Tschuggen Grand.
- 2010 — Hotel Eden Roc adds a third building, the maritime-styled Marina wing.
- 2016–2017 — Succession is formalized: daughter Ursula Bechtolsheimer-Kipp becomes board president in 2016; Karl-Heinz Kipp dies in Ascona on 11 October 2017, aged 93.
- December 2017 — The Valsana Hotel reopens on the site of its 115-year-old predecessor as a fully rebuilt, carbon-neutral property, heated entirely by geothermal probes, heat pumps, and an 850 m³ ice battery.
- 2019 — The Tschuggen Collection becomes fully climate-neutral, the first Swiss luxury hotel group to reach that standard.
- October 2022 — The company renames itself from the Tschuggen Hotel Group to The Tschuggen Collection.
- 2024–2025 — Hotel Eden Roc undergoes its most significant renovation in decades, reopening in April 2025 with an exterior evoking a sailing yacht.
- 2026 — The group targets the complete elimination of fossil fuels across all four hotels by year-end, including a new photovoltaic façade under development at the Tschuggen Grand Hotel.
The houses to know
- Carlton Hotel St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland — The all-suite St. Moritz hotel occupies a building dating to 1913.
- Tschuggen Grand Hotel, Arosa, Switzerland — Mario Botta’s mountainside spa is a signature of the collection’s namesake hotel.
- Valsana Hotel & Appartements, Arosa, Switzerland — Rebuilt in 2017, the hotel uses an 850-cubic-metre ice battery as part of its system for operating without fossil fuels.
Newest openings
- No newly built Tschuggen Collection hotel has opened in the last 24 months. The group's most significant recent milestone is the completed 2024–2025 renovation of Hotel Eden Roc (see Recent Renovations below), not a new opening.
Opening next
- No new Tschuggen Collection hotel has been publicly announced as of mid-2026. The group's stated near-term priorities are completing its fossil-fuel elimination program (targeted for the end of 2026) and continuing the renovation cycle at its existing four properties, rather than geographic expansion.
Every Tschuggen Collection hotel on the atlas
Switzerland
- Carlton Hotel St. Moritz — St. Moritz · Apex Luxury
- Tschuggen Grand Hotel — Arosa · Grand Luxury
- Valsana Hotel & Appartements — Arosa · Grand Luxury
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