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Rocco Forte Hotels

https://www.roccofortehotels.com/

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Established by Sir Rocco Forte and sister, Olga Polizzi in 1996, Rocco Forte Hotels is a collection of 13 individual hotels and resorts. All of the hotels are landmarks, both old and new, occupying magnificent buildings in exceptional locations. Led by a family who has been in hospitality for four generations, the hotels are united by their distinctive approach to service ensuring guests experience the best of the cities and surrounding areas.

Rocco Forte Hotels comprises: Hotel de Russie, Rome; Hotel de la Ville, Rome; Rocco Forte House, Piazza di Spagna, Rome; Hotel Savoy, Florence; Verdura Resort, Sicily; The Balmoral, Edinburgh; Brown’s Hotel, London; The Charles Hotel, Munich; Villa Kennedy, Frankfurt; Hotel de Rome, Berlin; Hotel Amigo, Brussels; Hotel Astoria, St Petersburg

Future openings: Rocco Forte Private Villas, Verdura Resort, Sicily - April 1st 2021; Villa Igiea, Palermo - May 1st 2021; The Westbund, Shanghai - 2021; The Carlton, Milan - 2023

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Location: United Kingdom

Employees: 1001-5000

Founded date: 1996

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15.09.2026	Rocco Forte Hotels’ Russian outpost pays out bumper dividend	The ring-fenced Russian arm of Rocco Forte Hotels has paid its shareholders a dividend worth more than £3m, despite the luxury hospitality chain being accused of bankrolling Putin’s war machine in Ukraine by maintaining operations in Russia...
02.06.2026	Sicily: Italy’s jewel, from foodie hubs to the coastline	Sicily: Italy’s moreish island, from food hubs to the coast, by Jamie Douglass The history of Anglo-Sicilian relations is long, amicable, and has much to do with wine. In 1773, a travelling Englishman called John Woodhouse discovered the ex...
13.05.2026	9 places to travel for a nervous system reset	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Leslie K. Hughes, TravelPulse As a traveler, you’ve probably experienced the feeling of coming back from a vacation more exhausted than when you left. The red-eye flights, the rushed connections...
07.04.2026	Bosses warn of family firm firesale as inheritance tax crackdown kicks in	The government’s contentious inheritance tax crackdown on family firms will lead to the break-up of thousands of beloved British businesses and is already stifling investment, a group of influential bosses have warned. The Treasury’s plans ...
25.03.2026	Rocco Forte: Inheritance tax grab has endangered my family firm	With luxury outposts across Europe, and plans to expand to the Gulf, Rocco Forte Hotels has become one of Britain’s most successful hospitality exports. But after being hit by a wave of damaging policies – including a potentially existentia...
04.02.2026	Spotify-backed Soundtrack acquires Tunify and Ambie to build local power with global scale	Soundtrack Technologies has acquired Tunify, a B2B music provider serving the Belgian and Netherlands markets, and Ambie, a UK-based background music service dedicated to hospitality, with global clients including Rocco Forte, Hyatt Hotels,...
13.01.2026	VAT-free shopping debacle has sent tourists packing	Five years on from the demise of VAT-free shopping, retail and hospitality chiefs say the impact is still causing pain as the industry seeks change, writes Joanna Hodgson Five years ago this month a change came in that might, on the surface...
05.11.2025	Why a charity should own 10 per cent of your company’s shares	The Notebook, where the City’s movers and shakers have their say. Today it’s James Reed with the pen The traditional model of capitalism is outdated and unsustainable — and I’m on a mission to change it. Yes, free markets based on short-ter...
21.10.2025	Good luck to my fellow Toast the City award nominees!	It is the day of City AM’s Toast the City Awards, celebrating the hospitality and placemaking that makes the Square Mile great. I could not be more proud to be attending, as both a judge and a nominee. I would like to reach out ahead of the...
18.09.2025	LTI announces the World's Best Luxury Hotel Brands 2025	World's Best Luxury Hotel Brands 2025 • Mandarin Oriental secures top position for the third consecutive year • LTI founder addresses growing issue within the sector CHESTER, United Kingdom, Sept. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Welcome to o...
14.08.2025	Corinthia London: Profit slashed at five-star hotel despite revenue spike	Profit has been slashed at five-star hotel Corinthia London despite its revenue spiking by 80 per cent, it has been revealed. The hotel, which is located on the corner of Northumberland Avenue and Whitehall Place, has posted a pre-tax profi...
13.08.2025	Sir Rocco Forte enjoys record pay day after hotels empire deal	The hotels group founded by Sir Rocco Forte has issued a record dividend for the first full year after Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) became a major shareholder. Rocca Forte Hotels has paid out dividends totalling £8.9m for the...
04.06.2025	UK to miss out on tourism boom due to ‘layer upon layer’ of taxes	UK tourism is at risk of suffering a decline as visitors are deciding against going to Britain due to the Treasury’s stringent tax policies, a key industry official has said, in the latest sign of the toll tax hikes are taking. Julia Simpso...
21.05.2025	Eat, drink, sleep, repeat: Out on the town with Evolv boss Martin Williams	Last week, my Evolv Collection exec team and I were invited to visit Domaine de Mirabeau, the home of pink pleasures. In a world where wild yeasts are added to wines not only to assist primary fermentation, but to ‘influence’ the flavour pr...
18.05.2025	Reeves’ tax hikes are ‘death blow to London,’ Britain’s richest warn	Chancellor Rachel Reeves is under renewed pressure as Britain’s top businessman blasted her economic agenda following The Sunday Times Rich List revealing a record drop in the country’s number of billionaires. Reeves’ crack down on “non-dom...
16.05.2025	Exploring Berlin, Germany: Where to eat, what to see, where to stay	Berlin is home to bureaucrats and hedonists, lobbyists and artists, lovers of techno and devotees of classical music. The city’s turbulent 20th-century history is visible in the bullet holes on facades, the graffitied remains of the Berlin ...
16.04.2025	Tourist tax: Lisa Nandy says Labour may ‘explore’ restoring VAT free shopping	Lisa Nandy has said the government “could explore” restoring VAT free shopping after hearing “very loud and clear” the calls from the industry to scrap the so-called tourist tax. The culture, media and sport secretary told Elle UK magazine ...
27.08.2024	Rocco Forte Hotels counts cost of £1.4bn deal with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund	-
23.10.2022	Touring Rome Through The Lens Of Jewelry	From The Eleuteri Archives, a Constantin Roesler Franz micromosaic necklace. Rome, circa 1850 featuring different famous sites of Italy
30.08.2022	Craving A Mediterranean Escape But Dreading The Logistics? Book A Sicily Adventure With Cultural Italy’s Bespoke Itineraries	Cultural Italy can arrange private walking city tours. Ortigia, Siracusa in Sicily. Shelby Knick
06.06.2021	69 Of The Newest Summer Hotel Openings Around The World	The lagoon quay with overwater villas at The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands, which opens this ... [+] month.The Ritz-Carlton Maldives, Fari Islands
28.01.2021	The 9 Dreamiest Mediterranean Hotels Opening In 2021	Few destinations can rival the allure of the Mediterranean, with its glittering deep-blue waters, sleepy, bougainvillea-draped villages and secluded beaches. From Barcelona to Dubrovnik, and St. Tropez to Mykonos, the Mediterranean coastlin...
10.12.2020	Five Ways The Travel Industry Will Win Back Tourists In 2021	Hoteliers are working to support coral reefs in the Maldives getty
19.09.2020	Experience A Globe-Trotting Getaway From Home, With The World Your Way	There's nothing like visiting the Roman Coliseum -- especially when you do so on a Vespa driven by ... [+] your private tour guide!The World Your Way
12.08.2020	Trend Insight: The New Ways We Will Travel	Over the past few months, the pandemic has grounded airlines, closed borders and made many of us fearful of going too far from home. But now destinations are beginning to open up again and our appetite for travel is slowly returning. In thi...
30.06.2011	Rocco Forte Hotels extends iBAHN partnership with renewed contract and additional hotels	London - (30th June 2011) – iBAHN, the worldwide leader in digital entertainment and Internet solutions for the hospitality and meeting industries, announces today that it has signed a 36-month contract with the Rocco Forte Hotels group to ...
-	This European island is likened to the Maldives. I stayed for a week – for $1,500	White sand, clear turquoise sea and lush trees swaying in the breeze. This might sound like a description of the Maldives — but it’s actually what I experienced on a recent trip to Italy. Sardinia, the Mediterranean’s second-largest island ...
-	40 stunning places to visit in 2020 before they become packed with tourists	Essaouira, Morocco is a port city that's making a name for itself for music, architecture and art. Shutterstock/Vixit Escape the stuffed streets of Barcelona and the congested beaches of the Côte d'Azur by staying one step in front of the c...

Rocco Forte Hotels

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