ECLECT is built on the belief that the best hotels do not come from a formula, but from the original ideas of the people who run them. Independent hotels, each with their own character, their own story and their own way of being hospitable. We want to keep it that way.

However, independent business owners stand alone on many fronts. Procurement, technology, visibility, bookings: where scale naturally yields advantages, the independent hotelier must organise everything through their own efforts. There are ways out: joining a chain, working according to a proven formula. They solve the problem, but at a price – precisely the distinctiveness that makes the hotel special, and which is becoming ever scarcer in the hotel industry.

We believe things can be done differently. ECLECT was founded by hotel entrepreneurs who have each owned their own hotels and know the industry from the inside. The answer became an operating collective: a single place where the disciplines that make a hotel run come together. Not a formula that dictates what your hotel should look like, but a foundation that reinforces your way of working. With combined purchasing power, smart systems and labels that connect like-minded hotels on our own booking platform.

Our name carries it within itself: a collective of diverse origins. Hotels that bear no resemblance to one another, save for their choice to remain themselves.