Originally Posted by
CPH-Flyer
I see three points as to why Ritz, St Regis, Waldorf, Park Hyatt, MO, The Pen, FS, etc. are not in the Scandinavian region. The home market is too small, too few Scandinavians are willing to pay for these hotels. The service mentality in Scandinavia is just not what it needs to be for these kinds of hotels, and they would struggle to recruit. The salary levels means it is way too expensive to staff these hotels the way they need to be staffed to make it work.
I think these hotels would need to import foreign workers to increase the service level in Scandinavia. We are too used to BYO culture, a lot of summer houses here require us to bring bed linen and clean before departure, which is the other extreme compared to StR or Ritz etc.