Reservation Site Drops Swiss Hotel Over Signs for ‘Jewish Guests'
While the hotel still appeared on the website early Thursday , administrators blocked guests from scheduling reservations. "We're sorry, but it is currently not possible to make reservations for this accommodation on our website," the page initially read . However, if you were to search the property now, you'd only get suggestions of different hotels within Arosa, Switzerland. "We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind," a Booking.com representative told Shimon Samuels , the Paris-based director for the Simon Wiesenthal Center . "We can confirm that the property in question is no longer available on Booking.com." Following the first reports, the Simon Wiesenthal Center urged "the broader Jewish Community and their Gentile friends to blacklist this horrific hotel " after Switzerland's tourism office called the incident "unfortunate." Located roughly 80 miles from Zurich, the Paradies Arosa hotel first placed a sign ...