This Gorgeous New Resort in a Remote Corner of Switzerland Is One of the World's Only Carbon-zero Hotels

""My first career was successful, but it was not something that necessarily improved the world,""

""So, for my next project, I wanted to change that.""

Appenzell is a quiet Swiss region known for rolling hills, painted chalets, Alpstein Mountains, Appenzeller cheese, yodeling, and villages that appear unchanged for over 400 years. Gonten is a traditional village transformed by native son Jan Schoch, founder of Leonteq AG, through his Appenzeller Huus hotel collection and the new Huus Quell. Opened in October, Huus Quell is a five-story timber hotel fabricated from roughly 6,000 locally sourced trees and built without nails or metal framing. The hotel offers 30 guest rooms and a nearly 24,000-square-foot spa and effectively stores more than 2,000 tons of carbon dioxide. Schoch shifted from fintech to sustainable building to have a positive environmental impact.

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