In September 2021, the renovated Alatau health and wellness complex, formerly a sanatorium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Kazakh SSR and closed since 2017, will open. The resort, now called Swissotel Wellness Resort Alatau Almaty, is a five-star hotel with 222 rooms, a restaurant, sports facilities, and a water park. The wellness center has its own mineral water spring. The resort covers 54 hectares and includes a lake, pine, and birch groves. Adjacent to the resort is a golf club with an 18-hole course.
On one hotel booking aggregator website, the price for a room at Swissotel Wellness Resort Alatau Almaty starts at $203 for a double room.
Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts is a chain of 28 hotels in 15 countries worldwide: Switzerland, the USA, Germany, China, Singapore, India, Thailand, Turkey, Russia, and elsewhere. Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts was founded in 1980 in Zurich by Swiss companies Swissair and Nestlé. In 1990, the hotels came under full control of Swissair, and in 2001, the Swissôtel chain was sold to Raffles Holding. After several more rounds of mergers and acquisitions, the chain was acquired by the Accor group, a major international hotel operator headquartered in the Paris suburbs. The group comprises more than 5,000 hotels and 10,000 restaurants, cafés, and bars in 110 countries across all price segments, including entertainment and nightlife venues, private residences, apartments, concierge services, coworking spaces, and much more. Its client base is 65 million people and its staff consists of 260,000 employees. The company's shares are traded on the Euronext Paris stock exchange and the US over-the-counter market. The group's revenue for 2018 was €3.61 billion.
The Alatau Sanatorium was built in the mid-1980s in the suburbs of Almaty as a rest and treatment facility for party and government officials, senior officials from ministries and agencies, and retired individuals. Nearly 40 million rubles were allocated for construction. The project's chief architects were Yuri Ratushny and Tokhtar Yeraliyev. For its time, the sanatorium was an innovative facility, pioneering many technologies. According to the Alatau website, it was the first in the country to construct ten-story buildings of this type with large-span lower rooms in an area with unfavorable hydrogeological conditions and a seismicity risk of magnitude 9. In 1995, the sanatorium was transformed into a joint-stock company and subsequently operated as a multidisciplinary medical center offering a range of diagnostic, therapeutic, health, and rehabilitation procedures.
Source: Forbes
