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The Sporthotel Pontresina was completed in 1881.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Schulhotel Sporthotel Pontresina .... Infrastruktur )〕 It is a three star hotel in the resort village of Pontresina, slightly less than two hours (depending on road/rail conditions) to the south of Chur in Graubünden, Switzerland. The hotel comprises 140 beds in 82 rooms, with underground parking for 60 cars.〔 During the summer season its focus is on hikers and mountain bikers, while winter season guests mostly come for the skiing and other winter sports. ==Brief History== The history of the hotel goes back to the boom in Swiss tourism during the second half of the nineteenth century. The founder of the hotel, , who came from a family of bakers and confectioners, acquired the "Maison Stiffler", a village guest house, and employed the architect to expand it into the mid-sized Post Hotel Pontresina, which opened in 1881. The further expansion to a first class renaissance revival hotel took place in 1895.〔Isabelle Rucki: ''Hotels in Pontresina.'' Kantonale Denkmalpflege, Chur 1984/85, p. 106〕 From now on the clientele of what was now known as the Hotel Pontresina came increasingly from the German upper middle class. Following the installation of central heating, in 1906/07, for the first time, the hotel opened for a winter season. In 1909 a company acquired the hotel from the Stoppany family, but the family remained closely involved. The First World War which broke out in 1914 marked the start of a long period of decline in the hotel's fortunes. Two World Wars and the years of austerity that followed the Wall Street Crash of 1929, combined with large and sudden fluctuations in currency exchange rates meant that there were many years between 1914 and the 1950s when the guests stayed away. Borrowings from the Cantonal Credit Institution ''("Bündner Kreditgenossenschaft")'' and other financial support organisations failed to preserve the hotel's independence, and in the 1930s it fell into the hands of the Cantonal Bank. This was also the decade during which, in 1936, the hotel acquired its present (2015) name, becoming the "Sporthotel Pontresina".〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Hotelgeschichte )〕 The 1960s brought a new era of mass tourism, and during the middle of the decade the bank embarked on the hotel's first significant renovation programme in half a century, and the upgrade continued after 1972 when the hotel passed from the ownership of the bank to that of the municipality. Most of the rooms acquired en suite bathrooms, and the modernised conference and meeting rooms together with enhanced facilities for sports equipment storage and drying enabled the hotel to broaden its appeal and provided for a new start. In 2010 the municipality sold the hotel to a new company, "Sporthotel Pontresina AG", owned by the Pampel family. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sporthotel Pontresina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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