Katja Leveringhaus

Together with business partners, Katja Leveringhaus founded the "Oberstdorf Resort" which consists of various hotels, a hostel, a mountain hut and various catering establishments in the Oberstdorf area in Germany. She also established her own marketing and sales agency. In 2010, Katja Leveringhaus and her longtime business partner Jürnjakob Reisigl developed the innovative brand concept known as “Explorer Hotels”. As project developers, investors and operators, they have since focused on the strategic expansion of the Explorer Hotels brand in the German-speaking Alpine region with currently eight hotel locations in Bavaria, Tyrol, Vorarlberg and Upper Austria. As a successful brand concept, Explorer Hotels has been awarded the German Tourism Award, the German Tourism Development Prize and the Artouro, and the Tourism Architecture Prize of the Bavarian State Ministry.