Started in 1997, Archipelago is Southeast Asia's largest privately owned hotel management group, with more than 45,000 rooms and residences in over 200 locations across Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Oceania. A trusted hotel company with a long track record and award-winning brands including Aston, Alana, Huxley, Kamuela, Avanika, Harper, Quest, Four Corners, Neo, fave, Nordic, Powered by Archipelago, and Aston Collection. From its humble beginnings, Archipelago has expanded across South East Asia and is now moving into other markets across the globe such as Australia, the Middle East, and South America. The group’s in-house design team designs and builds its own hotels and provides the design service for developers. While the company's team of over 30 programmers, coders, AI architects, and ML engineers helps develop the group’s own apps, software, and systems.