Switzerland Travel Guide — Cantons, Hotels, MICHELIN Keys

43.9 movernight stays, 2025confirmed, whole country

26cantons3 with published stays

264hotels on file44 in the Key selection

21 420keys recordedacross 249 properties

141MICHELIN tables4 with three stars

9three-Key housesthe top of the hotel axis

174destinationsall 26 cantons covered

56.8%net room occupancyfederal figure, 2025

How this page ranks properties. Switzerland is the first country in this series where a national hotel classification both exists and measures something real: the Schweizer Hotelklassifikation run by HotellerieSuisse works from 239 criteria, uses trained auditors and mystery checks, and adds a Superior grade above five stars. But entry is voluntary. Since 2020 a house either joins category A and is classified, or declines in writing and sits in category B. A voluntary register cannot rank a market, because absence from it carries no information. The ranking axis on this site is therefore the MICHELIN Key, and the star is carried as a declared attribute alongside it.

What is on this site

CantonsAll 26 Swiss cantons with capital, seasonality, hotel stock, airports and 2025 overnight stays where the federal office has published them.Destinations174 destinations across all 26 Swiss cantons by type: cities, old towns, UNESCO sites, ski resorts, lakes, passes and panoramic rail routes.ResortsThe resorts of Switzerland with the upper-tier hotel stock each one holds: St. Moritz, Zermatt, Gstaad, Davos, Interlaken, Ascona and more.AttractionsAttractions in Switzerland with annual visitor numbers where an operator publishes them, plus the landmarks that are not counted at all and why.Event calendarThe annual event calendar of Switzerland: 68 festivals, carnivals, sporting fixtures and business gatherings by month and canton.HotelsThe upper-tier Swiss hotel stock: 44 properties in the MICHELIN Key selection, 42 Swiss Deluxe Hotels members, with keys and operators.MICHELIN restaurantsMICHELIN-starred restaurants in Switzerland from the 2025 guide: every three- and two-star table and the starred dining rooms inside hotels.Access and logisticsSwiss airports with passenger volumes and rail journey times from Bern to every major destination, including the six villages that admit no cars.Hotel groupsThe 36 hotel groups running luxury properties in Switzerland, by origin, with the level at which each takes its sales decisions.

Also on this section MICHELIN Key hotels · Swiss Deluxe Hotels · Alpine hotels · Hotels with starred dining · Three MICHELIN stars · Two MICHELIN stars · Starred hotel dining · Most visited · Car-free villages

The nine three-Key houses

Hotel	Town	Canton	Keys
Badrutt's Palace Hotel	St. Moritz	Graubünden	155
Baur au Lac	Zürich	Zürich	119
Beau-Rivage Genève	Genève	Genève	89
Bürgenstock Hotel & Alpine Spa	Obbürgen	Nidwalden	102
Carlton Hotel St. Moritz	St. Moritz	Graubünden	60
Grand Hotel Les Trois Rois	Basel	Basel-Stadt	101
Grand Resort Bad Ragaz	Bad Ragaz	St. Gallen	261
The Alpina Gstaad	Gstaad	Bern	56
The Woodward	Genève	Genève	26

MICHELIN announced its first worldwide Key selection for Switzerland on 8 October 2025: 9 houses at three Keys, 32 at two and 49 at one, 90 in all. Every name above is verified against that publication in both directions — a name in the register that is not in the selection is as much an error as one in the selection missing from the register.

Where the volume sits

Switzerland recorded 43 930 146 overnight stays in 2025, 2.6% above 2024 and 11.0% above 2019, from 22 170 000 arrivals. Foreign guests accounted for 22.8 million of those nights and domestic guests 21.1 million — an almost even split, which is unusual in Europe and matters commercially: the domestic half books late, short and by weather.

Figures are the definitive edition published by the Federal Statistical Office on 25 February 2026. A preliminary estimate circulated in late January 2026 and is deliberately not used here; where two editions of the same statistic exist, this site takes the definitive one and records the other as superseded.