Engelberg Magazin Nr. 19

In dieser Lobby sollen ab Ende 2018 die Gäste empfangen werden. This lobby should be welcom- ing guests by the end of 2018.

Die 117 Zimmer sind die ersten im 5-Sterne-Segment in Engelberg. The 117 rooms will be Engelberg’s first in the five-star category.

Essen mit Blick in den Kurpark: Visualisierung des Restaurants.

Dining with a view of the Kurpark: a visualisa- tion of the restaurant

With 117 rooms, a large spa and wellness area, restaurants and seminar rooms, Engelberg’s first five-star hotel, the Titlis Palace, should herald a new era of tourism and create around 100 jobs. Engelberg is ushering in a new era of tourism as construction begins on its ver y first five-star hotel, the Titlis Palace. From now until the grand opening scheduled for December 2018, a great deal of ef for t and per- severance will be required – as has been the case for the project’s planning phase over the past eleven years. President CEO at Shenzhen Han’s Laser Technology Co. Ltd., came on board as an investor. Alongside running his technology company, which em- ploys around 9,500 members of staf f, Gao has built up a second mainstay in the real estate sector and today owns a variety of tourism proper ties, including hotels. With the hotel ’s construction now underway, Gao is fulfill- ing a long-held desire in Engelberg for a new hotel at this key location nex t to the Kurpark. With their new hotel, Gao and Bucher want to revive an Engelberg hospitality tra- dition from days gone by. Integrating the Europäischer Hof into the new build on the site of the erstwhile Grand Hotel will give the Titlis Palace a physical and symbolic con- nection to the glamorous Belle Époque era of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. “I am ver y confident that we are creating some- thing beautiful and unique with this ho- tel,” says Gao. “The people of Engelberg are sure to be just as proud of it as I will be.” of Eberli Sarnen AG, Toni Bucher, has been involved with the project from the ver y beginning. In 2008, his friend and business par tner Yunfeng Gao, President and

The new hotel will be Engelberg’s first in the five-star categor y. Along with its 117 rooms, the hotel will boast a large spa and well- ness area situated on the roof level as well as restaurants, seminar rooms, a bar, shops, and a banquet hall. By building over the historic Kursaal premises and integrating the existing ar t nouveau Europäischer Hof, over the nex t few years the construction team will erect a hotel that is a single cohesive unit in terms of urban development, architecture and opera- tion. The architectural concept adopts the

clear division of classical architecture: base, central block, and roof. Architectural cohesion will be fur ther ac- centuated by integrating and reinterpreting the division and structure of the Europäis-

The Titlis Palace will be Engelberg’s first five-star hotel.

cher Hof, which has stood here since 1905. Engelberg has been a popular tourist destination for over a centur y and, today, tour- ism is the village’s most impor tant industr y. The new hotel will give a real boost not just to Engelberg’s economy, but to that of Central Switzerland as a whole – already during its con- struction and then even more so once it opens. It is estimated that the hotel will provide around 100 new jobs. And experience from sim- ilar hotel projects shows that for ever y three jobs created by a hotel such as this, one job is created outside the hotel. “With the investment of around CHF 100 million in the new hotel, the regional construction industr y will also experience a substantial growth spur t over the coming years,” af firms Toni Bucher. And Yunfeng Gao is already convinced that, “When the new hotel opens in late 2018, Engelberg will be unveiling a landmark project that will attract attention far beyond the Swiss borders.” www.titlis-palace.ch

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