Flair Hotels e.V.
Type	Cooperation (acc. to German laws)
Founded	1983
Headquarters	Ochsenfurt Ochsenfurt Ochsenfurt is a town in the district of Würzburg, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the River Main, here crossed by a stone bridge, 13 miles south from Würzburg by the railway to Munich, and at the junction of a line to Röttingen. Pop. 11,600... , Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
Key people	Klaus-Peter Willhöft, President
Products No. of rooms	Hotels approx. 4,300
Revenue	(unknown)
Employees	approx. 2.300 (as of 2007)
Website	www.flairhotel.com

Flair Hotels e.V. is an international operating hotel cooperation. The association was founded as a cooperation of "family friendly", "family owned", and "family led" hotels. Soon after its foundation, the co-op expanded not only within Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

, but also to neighboring countries such as Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

, France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

, and in Switzerland

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

.

Today (as of 2007) approx. 140 hotels belong to the cooperation.

Company's history

• 1983: Hotelier Josef Kieser Sr. and some befriended hoteliers from the Franken region in Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
  established the cooperation. During the same year, the cooperation expanded throughout Germany, thus establishing a German-wide hotel chain.
• 1990: after the "Re-unification" of Germany, lots of hotels from East Germany joined.
• 1993: first Austrian Flair Hotels joined
• 1996: first Italian Flair Hotel
• 2000: first French Flair Hotel
• 2004: first Swiss Flair Hotel