About us

Our young team in Thun and Wettingen serves the interests of our members and partner hotels with passion and dedication. Together we work tirelessly to further optimise our unique member-based booking model and to make it accessible to more consumers and hotel businesses located in Switzerland and neighbouring countries. Our declared goal is to make it possible for our members to stay in the place of their dreams – without having to spend hours on the Internet searching for a bargain.

The idea behind the “Half-Fare Travelpass”

The Hotelcard idea was born in 2009, quite literally at the kitchen table when young Swiss entrepreneur Ivan Schmid asked himself how he could help his, at that time future, father-in-law achieve better occupancy rates at his hotel in the Engadin region. The answer to this question was also the spark that started the fire – that very year Ivan launched the Hotelcard, which has become known throughout Switzerland as the “Half-Fare Travelpass”. The idea has continued to be a huge success to this day. Hotelcard members benefit from unbeatably low rates at 600 hotels in Switzerland and neighbouring countries, while the participating hotels are in turn able to improve their occupancy rates during the off season thanks to Hotelcard. This is the reason why not only the number of partner hotels has been increasingly steadily for the last 10 years but also the number of satisfied members. Simple and novel, this is a win-win model for everyone.

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