IKEA builds hotel in Delft

Furniture and furnishings retailer IKEA has started work on a hotel in the City of Delft. The hotel is a partnership between IKEA and hotel chain Golden Tulip. The hotel will be open to the public, but will be mainly used to house IKEA franchisers and employees.

IKEA has one of its main international training centers in Delft and this outlet is host to IKEA people from all over the world. Annually around 1,500 people come to Delft to be trained to improve the performance of their own IKEA outlet. IKEA Delft is the biggest IKEA store in the Netherlands and is currently being renovated to extend retail space even further.

IKEA Delft is the only Dutch store that is not part of the IKEA Nederland organisation, but is directly owned by the IKEA Systems BV (the international "parent" company).