Minotel is a voluntary hotel chain of moderate first class hotels that are mainly family-owned and
-operated.

Legal structure
Non profit-making association under Swiss Law

Organization
The General Assembly (GA) is the supreme body of the association. It convenes once a year towards the end of the first half and votes all important political and strategic decisions. Every 2 years, the president is elected by the GA. He presides the Board, also elected by the GA and which carries out the decisions of the GA. The Lausanne Office is in charge of the administrative tasks, sales and promotions, the expansion of the hotel network, distribution channels, Central Reservations and the Purchasing Office.

Head Office
Lausanne (Switzerland)

Purpose
Promote our hotels and enhance our brand awareness. Read about the Minotel mission statement

Founded in
1980 (Switzerland) / 1983 (Europe)

Founded by
Minotel was founded by hoteliers, for hoteliers. Member hoteliers alone finance the budget of the chain. They participate in the life of the organization, elect their Board and their president. They alone harvest the fruits of their activity, namely more reservations.

Average Occupancy Rate
~ 60%. Hotels in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Florence, Frankfurt and Venice show occupancy rates bordering on 90%

Geographical Spread
28 countries worldwide, although our hotel offer currently remains rather concentrated in Europe. The growing expansion towards other continents leads Minotel to also being present in Canada, China, Costa Rica, Egypt and the United States. Search for all Minotel Destinations

Worldwide Distribution
Our hotels are distributed through a network of professional tour operators, through the Global Distribution Systems (Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan) as well as the most popular travel and hotel web sites. Tour operators account for 50% of the sales, electronic distributors for 25% and the public for another 25%.

Internet
85% of the Minotel reservations are done via the Internet and 15% via our Central Reservation Office.

> Minotel.com : For individual clients and travel agents alike, the multilingual Minotel secure web site is the key to all our hotels and offers them instant confirmation of their bookings as well as great savings. The Minotel web site is currently available in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Chinese. Japanese and Russian will be added next.

> Extranet : A special web site allows our tour operators a quick access to room availability and reservations.

> XML Interfaces : More and more reservation systems of tour operators and travel web sites are directly linked to our database for hotel information, room availability and tariffs.

> Intranet : A user-friendly platform which allows our hoteliers to rationalize operations and easily manage their room offer in the several distribution channels proposed by Minotel.

Printed Brochures
The tour operators working with Minotel yearly print 20 million brochures that are distributed to customers in approximately 40'000 travel agencies worldwide. Furthermore, all of our hotels figure in our annual pocket size directory of which 130'000 copies are printed each year. A special guide presents the Swiss hotels of which yearly 100'000 copies are printed.

Central Reservation
Our call center ideally completes our public web site and handles efficiently reservation requests in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.

Purchasing Office
Swiss hotels benefit from the advantages of a powerful Purchasing Office which allows them to realize substantial savings when purchasing with our 100 suppliers who offer nearly 15'000 food and non-food products. Members annually realize purchases worth over 45 million Swiss Francs.