Owner

School education

• Hotel management school MODUL in Vienna (graduated in 1985 “with good results”)
• Academy of Commerce in Vienna (graduated in 1988)

Professional career

• worked for the French ACCOR hotel group from 1989 to 1992:
  • Banquet Manager at the Novotel Vienna Airport
  • Sales Manager Novotel Austria
  • Assistant Manager at the Novotel Wien Airport

• from 1992 to 1994 at the Katcz & Corvin group of companies:
  • Assistant to the management
  • Resident Manager at the World Trade Centre at Vienna Airport
  • Project Manager for Hotel Holiday Inn Eilat/Israel

• from 1994 to 1997 Hotel Director at the German Astron group (55 hotels in German-speaking countries – NH Hotels since 2002):
  • new opening of Astron Sporthotel Kitzbühel – with 132 rooms and 600 m² of conference space, the largest hotel on site
  • operational refurbishment of the Astron Suite-Hotel Nuremberg/Fürth
  • implementation of various Holiday Inn hotels into the Astron Group

• independent since September 1997:
  • foundation of Althof Consulting- und Hotelbetriebsges.m.b.H. and lease of the Hotel Althof in Retz
  • 1 April 1999 Takeover of Atlantis Hotelbetrieb GmbH and lease of the Atlantis Hotel Vienna
  • August 2008 opening of the arte Hotel Krems
  • December 2009 takeover and lease of the Hotel Schwarz Alm Zwettl
  • 2012 expansion of Atlantis Hotel Vienna
  • 2015 expansion of Althof Retz with Winzerzimmer and VinoSPA
  • 2016 expansion of AlmSPA and general renovation of Schwarz Alm Zwettl
  • 2016 opening of the arte Hotel Kufstein
  • 2017 opening of I’m Inn Wieselburg
  • 2017 expansion and rebranding of Atlantis Hotel Vienna to arte Hotel Vienna
  • 2018 takeover of Spitz Hotel Linz and rebranding as arte Hotel Linz
  • 2019 opening of arte Hotel Salzburg
  • 2023 opening of I’m Inn Zwettl – Hotel zum Brauhaus

Miscellaneous

• member of the board of the ÖHV (Austrian Hoteliers’ Association) Lower Austria regional group since 1999
• ÖHV regional chairman of the Lower Austria regional group since 2006
• ÖHV Vice President since 2010
• Austria’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Tourism 2000
• Member of the Rotary Club Hollabrunn Weinland since 2000
• President of the Rotary Club Hollabrunn Weinland 2007/08
• Bailli de Retzer Land / Chaine des Rotisseurs from 2006 to 2009
• winner of the Merkur Award 2009 as Graduate of the Year of the Vienna Business School, awarded by the Fonds der Wiener Kaufmannschaft

Detailed information is available directly at:

Althof Consulting- und Hotelbetriebsges.m.b.H.
Alexander Ipp
Althofgasse 14
A-2070 Retz