Movenpick Hotels & Resorts is a Swiss premium hospitality company active in the 5-star resort hotel and 4-star business/airport hotel markets. With 48 hotels and 9,327 rooms in 14 countries, it serves some 3 million guests per year. The division employs approximately 6,373 employees with a geographic focus on the European metropolitan centres, the Middle East and North Africa. The Movenpick philosophy is a distinct departure from the traditional hotel chain approach. Sincere and heartfelt hospitality, uncompromisingly high product and service quality as well as excellent levels of staff training and team motivation crowned with that special Swiss touch make the difference.Movenpick Hotels & Resorts is owned by the Movenpick Holding (60 per cent), the Kingdom Holding Investment Company (30 per cent) and the JP Morgan Investment Bank (10 per cent).