Stéphane Durand
The Beaumier Hotels Family
What makes a great hotel group? Probably by the way it renews itself and constantly manages to astonish.
As a tribute to its thousand lives, the Beaumier Group takes the name of the Marseille explorer and writer Auguste Beaumier, who has inspired and marked the Group's DNA since its beginnings.
The story
The brand's history was forged in the mountains. It was founded in 2013 by Éric Dardé, a native of Versailles who had spent two decades with the Accor group at the time. He set his sights on the Alpaga hotel in Megève, which was inaugurated in 2016 by his company, still known at the time as "Les hôtels d'en haut."
However, he soon left the snow-capped peaks behind and headed for the sunny beaches of the French Riviera, opening Les Roches Rouges the following year, with the renovation entrusted to the young architectural duo Festen. After joining the portfolio of the KSL Partners investment fund in 2019, the Beaumier name became widely recognized in 2021 for a group that now has 11 hotels in France, Spain, and Switzerland in its portfolio.
A luxury hotel chain that knows how to establish itself in exceptional settings, from Provence to the Balearic Islands, via the most chic mountain resorts.
Beaumier tribe attributes
Appointed General Manager of the company as of January 1, 2025, Frenchman Billy Skelli-Cohen has just succeeded Éric Dardé. A specialist in high-end hotels and international development, he is credited with the conversion of iconic properties such as the Pulitzer Amsterdam and the Riggs Washington DC in the USA. Former CEO of Zien Group, owner and operator of prestigious hotel brands such as Eden Hotels, Billy Skelli-Cohen also founded and managed Lore Group, for whom he oversaw the creation of hotels such as London's Sea Containers. His next challenge? The imminent opening of a new Beaumier hotel in Wengen, a bucolic Swiss resort in the Bernese Alps.
For whom?
Lovers of luxury and sustainability, in hotels deeply rooted in their local environment.
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