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Popular Hotel Sveitsi to Join Strawberry's Growing Hotel Portfolio

Popular Hotel Sveitsi to Join Strawberry's Growing Hotel Portfolio

In the heart of perhaps the most exciting part of southern Finland stands Hotel Sveitsi. With its fantastic location in stunning natural surroundings, the hotel is soon to be part of Strawberry's Nordic hotel portfolio after customary regulatory approvals have been received.

Hotel Sveitsi will soon be part of the Nordic hotel company Strawberry's hotel portfolio. The hotel is located in the

Geir Karlsen and Petter A Stordalen

Norwegian and Strawberry to establish shared “currency” for loyalty programmes

Norwegian and Strawberry are to establish a joint company that will provide a wider selection of services to the members of the companies’ respective loyalty programmes. The company will create a common loyalty currency and a platform where members can earn and use loyalty points across different programmes. The entity will be jointly owned by Norwegian and Strawberry, each retaining an equal owne

Strawberry launches Room key in Apple Wallet

This summer, guests staying at Clarion Hotel Post are able to securely add their room key to Apple Wallet to conveniently access their accommodations with a simple tap of an iPhone or Apple Watch. The hotel is the first of Strawberry's (formerly Nordic Choice Hotels) properties to launch the feature.
The launch of room key in Apple Wallet is a collaboration with ASSA ABLOY Global Solutions and

NEW VICE PRESIDENT FOR QUALITY HOTEL: Jannicka Jingryd is recruited as the new Vice President for Quality Hotel in the Nordic countries.

Strawberry strengthens its team with a new Vice President

Strawberry is entering the future with a top-notch team after Jannicka Jingryd was recruited as the new Vice President for Quality Hotel in the Nordics. Jingryd comes from the Social Eatertainment Group where she has been the Chief Operating Officer since 2020.

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Strawberry enters into a strategic partnership with a Nordic sustainability network.

Strawberry and A Sustainable Tomorrow aim to jointly involve more people in the sustainability transition in the Nordic region. Sustainability is one of Strawberry's strategic focus areas and a fundamental pillar of their hotel operations. Their goal is to achieve carbon neutrality in their own operations by 2030, while also reducing emissions from the value chain by 50 percent in the same year.

Strawberry appoints new Senior Vice President for Clarion Hotel in the Nordics

Strawberry appoints new Senior Vice President for Clarion Hotel in the Nordics

Kim A. Øverland has been appointed Senior Vice President for all Clarion Hotel in the Nordics. Øverland has experience from several hotels in the group and has most recently held a position as General Manager at the Norwegian hotel The Well outside Oslo.
Just days after Kim A. Øverland was presented as the new General Manager at The Well, it is now made official that he will instead take over t

Anna Spjuth is returning to key role in new Strawberry

Anna Spjuth is returning to key role in new Strawberry

Anna Spjuth will lead the branding- and concept development of the chain hotels at Strawberry.
With great ambitions for the rebranding of Nordic Choice Hotels to Strawberry, a new position as Senior Vice President Brand & Concept for the chain hotels has been created.
– It is fantastic to welcome Anna Spjuth back. Anna took Comfort Hotel in a clear direction which has resulted in it bei

NEW PARTNERSHIP: The four Fortress Hotels, including Torreby Castle, will join Nordic Choice Hotels in a strategic partnership.

The Fortress Hotels are entering into a strategic partnership with the new Strawberry

Nordic Choice Hotels, which as of this year, are changing their name to Strawberry, will add four unique additions to their portfolio, when the Fortress Hotels enters into a distribution partnership. The four hotels in the Fortress Hotels group are Oscarsborg Fortress, Kongsvinger Fortress and Reenskaug Hotel in Norway and Torreby Castle in Sweden.

2 million NOK in EU support when Nordic Choice Hotels participates in projects to investigate how social norms affect food waste.

2 million NOK in EU support when Nordic Choice Hotels participates in projects to investigate how social norms affect food waste.

Within the EU project CHORIZO, various projects are carried out to obtain information and data about guests' behavior with the aim of reducing food waste in hotels. By systematizing and making available the results from the study, the ambition is to be able to contribute to a reduced climate impact on a large scale together with other players in the industry.
The project is a large EU project w

Dianne Robillos

Nordic Choice Hotels recruits to personalize the guest journey through data, analytics and insight

Nordic Choice Hotels has been looking beyond national borders for a global player to accelerate its data-driven way of working, with a focus on the guest journey and guest satisfaction. The role ultimately fell to Dianne Robillos, who in December assumed the new position as VP Personalization, Data & Insights.
Dianne most recently comes from a similar role at Qatar Airways where she enabled

NEW COO: Erika Ehrnrooth has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer Finland at Nordic Choice Hotels.

Nordic Choice Hotels recruits new Chief Operating Officer in Finland

To succeed on the ambitions for further growth in the Finnish market, the hotel company has created a new position as Chief Operating Officer in Finland.
After acquiring Kämp Collection Hotels, the most unique hotel portfolio in Finland, in 2019, Helsinki has become the third biggest market for Nordic Choice Hotels after Oslo and Stockholm. With two more hotel projects at Helsinki Vantaa Airpor

Update 6 December on the virus attack on Nordic Choice Hotels' IT systems

Update 6 December on the virus attack on Nordic Choice Hotels' IT systems

In the wake of the virus attack on the night of 2 December, Nordic Choice Hotels has over the weekend worked to map the extent of the virus attack on the IT systems.
On the night of 2 December, Nordic Choice Hotels was hit by a virus attack on our IT systems. The virus infected systems for bookings, check-in and check-out, as well as payment solutions. After the incident, we have worked around

Status from Nordic Choice Hotels 03.12

Status from Nordic Choice Hotels 03.12

As a result of the virus our IT- systems were exposed to on the night of Thursday 2 December, we are still experiencing technical problems. We are working to get an overview of the incident and its consequences, while we do everything to ensure that guests at the hotels have a great stay.
As it looks now, many of the hotels will have to continue to use manual solutions over the weekend and be b

Technical problems affects Nordic Choice Hotels internal IT-systems

Technical problems affects Nordic Choice Hotels internal IT-systems

Nordic Choice Hotels IT-systems was affected by a virus during the night towards December 2. The virus primarily affected our internal systems for booking, checking in and out and payment solutions. We have implemented manual processes to handle the situations at the hotels so we can focus on the guests, but the waiting time will be longer than usual. We are working to solve the issue with all res

Comfort Hotel Copenhagen Airport.

​Biggest airport conference venue in Northern Europe just opened in Copenhagen

Nordic Choice Hotels is raising the bar for international conference venues with the opening of Comfort Hotel Copenhagen Airport next to the hotel group’s existing Clarion Hotel on May 20. This addition means that they now offer 66.000 m2 divided between nearly 1000 hotel rooms, an enormous conference hall and 33 meeting rooms just a four minute walk from the airport.

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