Eurotel (hotel chain)

The logo of the Eurotel group

Eurotel was an international hotel chain that was developed in the mid-1950s by the Italian building contractor family Vanzo in Bolzano .

history

Armando Ronca: Eurotel Meran (1959), Meran

The Eurotel company was founded in 1956 by Gennaro Vanzo (1914–1998) in Bolzano with the intention of combining the principle of the hotel with that of the condominium . Among other things, the Eurotel system made it possible to swap with apartment owners at other locations.

The first Eurotel opened in Merano in 1959 and was developed in close collaboration with the Italian architect Armando Ronca , who was also responsible for the standardization of the residential units. After this prototype, another 35 Eurotels had been built across Europe (and the Dominican Republic) with a total of around 5700 rooms by the mid-1980s.

Today, around two thirds of the original Eurotels are still being run as conventional hotels, while a third have been converted into condominiums.

List of German, Swiss and Austrian Eurotels

Eurotel Baiersbronn, Baiersbronn (DE), 1962
Eurotel St. Blasien, St. Blasien (DE), 1965
Eurotel Riviera, Montreux (CH), 1967
Eurotel Crans, Crans-sur-Sierre (CH), 1969
Eurotel Victoria, Les Diablerets (CH), 1972
Eurotel Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel (CH), 1974
Eurotel Victoria, Villars-sur-Ollon (CH), 1976
Eurotel Friborg, Friborg (CH), 1977
Eurotel Bad Gastein, Bad Gastein (AT), 1982
Eurotel Bad Aussee, Bad Aussee (AT), 1982

literature

Guest for life . In: Der Spiegel . October 22, 1958, pp. 34-36.
Recovery and cure with investment . In: The time . December 22, 1961.
Flavio Schimenti: Armando Ronca, Memorie di Architettura a Bolzano e in Alto Adige, 1929–1969 , Praxis 3, Bozen 1999
Kofler, Andreas: Eurotel. Modern holiday utopia and standardized living , in: Merano Art, Andreas Kofler, Magdalene Schmidt, Jörg Stabenow (eds.): Armando Ronca, Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol, 1935–1970 , Zurich 2017, pp. 324–344.

Individual evidence

↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia: in twenty volumes. 2 atf - blis. 17., completely reworked. Edition Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1967, ISBN 978-3-7653-0000-4 .
↑ ^a ^b Merano Art, Art, Kofler, Andreas, Schmidt, Magdalene, Stabenow, Jörg, Kofler, Andreas: Armando Ronca Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol 1935-1970 . Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-03860-061-9 .

[1] Brockhaus Encyclopedia: in twenty volumes. 2 atf - blis. 17., completely reworked. Edition Brockhaus, Wiesbaden 1967, ISBN 978-3-7653-0000-4 .

[:0-2] Merano Art, Art, Kofler, Andreas, Schmidt, Magdalene, Stabenow, Jörg, Kofler, Andreas: Armando Ronca Architektur der Moderne in Südtirol 1935-1970 . Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-03860-061-9 .