Company
Founded in 2008, arcona Hotels & Resorts, based in Rostock, Germany, is a company specialising in the operation and development of hotels.
Arrive. Feel good. Enjoy.
In the course of the realignment towards leisure and holiday hotels, arcona sold its city hotels at the beginning of 2019. The remaining six houses are located in established holiday destinations such as Rügen, Sylt and Kitzbühel. The well-known Hotel Elephant Weimar, the traditional Romantik Hotel auf der Wartburg and the Golfclub Schloss Teschow are also part of the arcona portfolio.
Barefoot Hotels will be a new business segment in the future. in 2018, arcona signed a long-term contract with Barefoot founder Til Schweiger for the worldwide implementation of the concept as a licensee. Accordingly, arcona intends to open further Barefoot Hotels at exposed destinations in the coming years. The shareholders of arcona are Alexander Winter and Treugast founder Stephan Gerhard. The company headquarters is the listed Zeeck'sche Villa of the architect Paul Korff in Rostock.
The shareholders
Alexander Winter
Alexander Winter has been the managing partner since the management buy-out in 2008. From 2001 to 2008 he was CFO and member of the board of Arkona AG. The trained hotel manager had already held management positions in hotel companies of the Rahe Group since 1995. He has many years of experience in both luxury and modern city hotels. He is also well versed in the lifestyle resort hotel industry through the development of the a-rosa resorts at the time.
Stephan Gerhard
Stephan Gerhard is President and Chairman of the Board of TREUGAST Solutions Group. The trained hotel manager and graduate in business administration has been working as a consultant for over thirty years. His main occupation is Professor of Hospitality Development at the Fachhochschule des Mittelstandes in Schwerin. Furthermore, Stephan Gerhard holds participations in other hotel and gastronomy companies such as 25hours Hotels.
