Work integration since 2015
magdas HOTEL has been demonstrating how an innovative, social business hotel operates since 2015. Since 2017, the team has been training young people with refugee backgrounds in three apprenticeships.
Work integration as our passion
Vienna's social business hotel
In 2015, the first magdas HOTEL opened in Vienna in a former care home near Vienna's Prater. Since autumn 2022, the hotel has been welcoming guests from all over the world in a former priest's residence in Vienna-Landstraße. Here, social sustainability is just as much a priority as ecological responsibility. Around 100 people with refugee experience have started their careers at magdas HOTEL - people who are now enhancing the labor market in other companies.
14.02.2015
magdas HOTEL opens
Austria's first social business hotel opened ten years ago near Vienna's Prater. Run by hotel professionals from Europe and people with refugee backgrounds. Since day one, 24 languages were spoken at magdas HOTEL.
2017
Focus on apprenticeships
Since 2017, we have been training young people with refugee experience in a total of three apprenticeships. As chefs, restaurant specialists or hotel managers, they enrich Austrians labor market after completing their apprenticeship at magdas.
2022
From Prater to the city
In summer 2022, the magdas HOTEL, which was planned as a pop-up from the very beginning, had to leave its location near the Prater. Since autumn 2022, the hotel has been welcoming guests from all over the world in a former priest's residence in Vienna-Landstraße. There, magdas focuses on both social and ecological sustainability.
2025
Renovation at Prater
Renovation of the first location near Vienna's Prater will start in spring 2025. The first magdas pop-up hotel in Laufbergergasse 12 was built in the 1970s and needs to be completely renovated. The renovation is to be completed with the lowest possible CO2 footprint.
2027
Reopening at Vienna's Prater
With the opening of magdas HOTEL Vienna Prater in 2027, we want to double our social impact. We will create around 50 additional apprenticeships and jobs with our second location.
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Social Business Story
Success stories like this show that it often doesn't take more than a chance: Front Office manager Ziad Rabeh used his voluntary integration year in 2016 to get to know the company and learn German, then he completed both his hotel business apprenticeship and his accountancy exam and now he manages the front office with around ten employees. He is training three apprentices in his team to become future hotel managers.
