Groundbreaking ceremony for the Vienna House Easy by Wyndham at Vienna Airport

Caption: Groundbreaking ceremony for the Vienna House Easy by Wyndham at Vienna Airport.

Press release of one of our partners

The AirportCity is growing: Ground-breaking ceremony at Vienna Airport for Lower Austria’s largest hotel with 510 rooms – The Vienna House Easy by Wyndham will be Europe’s largest hotel made of wood and will open at the end of 2025

Lower Austria’s largest hotel is currently being constructed at Vienna Airport. The Viennese real estate developer MAMMA Group is building a hotel with 510 rooms which will be operated under the brand Vienna House Easy by Wyndham by the Berlin-based HR Group, the biggest multi-brand hotel operator in Europe. As a result, the total hotel capacity at Vienna Airport will increase to more than 1,400 rooms. Construction work will focus on ensuring sustainability. The Vienna House Easy by Wyndham will be Europe’s largest wooden hotel. The opening of the new hotel is planned for the end of 2025. Construction work is now beginning. The official go-ahead was marked by today’s ground-breaking ceremony with Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Provincial Govenor of Lower Austria, Herbert Pinzolits, owner and CEO MAMMA Group, Jörg Beginen, COO HR Group, Günther Ofner, Member of the Management Board of the Vienna Airport operating company Flughafen Wien AG and Wolfgang Scheibenpflug, Senior Vice President Real Estate & Landside Management of Vienna Airport.

“A strong signal is being sent with today’s ground-breaking ceremony for Lower Austria’s largest hotel here at the airport. In this way, we are strengthening our image as an attractive location for business tourism for our guests from near and far. New and modern overnight accommodations are being created, along with new jobs and valuable economic impetus for the region. My sincere thanks to everyone pressing ahead with this ambitious project with so much commitment. I very much look forward to the opening in the coming year,” emphasizes Johanna Mikl-Leitner, Provincial Governor of Lower Austria.

“We are pleased, even proud, that we are able to successfully implement this project without any compromises despite the currently very challenging conditions. And last but not least, that we will finally bring the Vienna House brand home to Vienna,” states Herbert Pinzolits, owner and CEO MAMMA Group.

“We are gratified to enable this showcase project with our longstanding partners at this important location. Now we are working intensively on opening this hotel as a modern flagship of the Vienna House family and to delight guests from all over the world with lifestyle, digital services and sustainability,” adds Jörg Beginen, COO HR Group.

“By expanding the hotel offering, Vienna Airport is creating significantly more overnight capacities at the site. Demand for this is very high. More than 1,400 rooms will be available to our guests as of the end of 2025. This key investment shows optimism and courage, particularly in the current period of extensive economic uncertainty. And it is based on the confidence in a positive future for travelling and in the AirportCity,” explains Günther Ofner, Joint CEO and CFO of Flughafen Wien AG.

“Thanks to the proximity to the airport, direct connection to the main B9 road and the A4 Eastern Highway as well as to railway lines, the commercial space of Vienna Airport offers the perfect prerequisites for business location projects. MAMMA Group and its customers are focusing on these advantages,” according to Wolfgang Scheibenpflug, Senior Vice President Real Estate & Landside Management of Vienna Airport.

Vienna House Easy by Wyndham Airport Vienna will be the airport’s largest hotel with 510 rooms
The Vienna House Easy will be the largest hotel at Vienna Airport and one of the four largest hotels in all of Austria. The concept combines budget with lifestyle and offers an attractive price/performance ratio. The hotel will be built on the B9 road in the direction of Schwechat, directly next to the VIP & General Aviation Terminal of Vienna Airport. Construction work recently commenced, with completion planned for the end of 2025.

Europe’s largest hotel made of wood 
New milestones are already being set with respect to construction. The Vienna House Easy by Wyndham Airport Vienna will be Europe’s largest hotel made of wood. It will feature wood-based hybrid construction and also integrate an autonomous, CO₂-free heat and cold supply. Similarly, part of the hotel’s electricity consumption will be covered by its own photovoltaic facility located on the roof of the hotel.

Caption: This is what the Vienna House Easy by Wyndham will look like..

The new airport hotel will be constructed by the Vienna-based Mamma Group. This company invests in commercial space and residential buildings in Austria and Germany, and increasingly in hotels in recent years. At present the Mamma Group is realising a total of four hotel projects in the DACH region.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts – the world’s biggest hotel franchise company
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: WH) is the world’s largest hotel franchising company by the number of properties, with approximately 9,200 hotels across over 95 countries on six continents. It has a network of over 885,000 rooms appealing to the everyday traveller. In September 2022, Wyndham acquired the Vienna House hotel brand. At present there are 42 Vienna House hotels operating in seven European countries, of which 26 are located in Germany and one in Dornbirn, Austria. More information on this is available at www.corporate.wyndhamhotels.com.

All Vienna House hotels are operated by the Berlin-based HR Group, Europe’s leading multi-brand hotel operating company, within the framework of a franchise agreement. The company headquartered in Berlin has successfully acquired, developed and operated hotels for more than fifteen years and, thanks to its modern orientation, is increasingly investing in the areas of digitalisation and catering. Today the portfolio includes close to 200 hotels with more than 27,000 rooms in 88 cities and 10 countries. More information is available at www.hrg-hotels.com.

AirportCity: New hotel for a multifunctional location
The Vienna House Easy by Wyndham is the third hotel at the Vienna Airport site and can be directly and easily reached by car, bus and train. As a result, the AirportCity is expanding the total capacity of its accommodations as well as its range of services. With more than 23,000 employees in 250+ companies, the AirportCity at Vienna Airport is truly a growing city.

Contact:
Press Office of Flughafen Wien AG
Peter Kleemann, Company Spokesman
Tel.: (+43-1-) 7007-23000
E-mail: p.kleemann@viennaairport.com
Website: www.viennaairport.com