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Member house · since 2026

OTSWISS

Owners

Omar Seraj

Omar Seraj

Founder and CEO

Xavier Hardy

Xavier Hardy

Associate Director

The record

Founded

2011

Head office

Geneva, Switzerland

Languages

English, French

Website

otswiss.com

The house

OTSWISS is a nine-person house — six agents and three people running the back office — built around two owners with a combined fifty years in the trade: Omar Seraj, who has worked in travel for more than 33 years, and Xavier Hardy, who joined in 2012 with 17 years' experience already behind him, bringing along three colleagues the pair had already worked with closely for years. The house was not assembled from strangers; it was built around people who already knew how each other worked.

Geneva is home base, and the house has belonged to Serandipians since 2017. What sets its client list apart is who is actually asking: alongside high-end individuals and families, OTSWISS is booked directly by family offices, security companies, private jet operators and concierge services — organizations handing over a client, not just individuals booking their own trip. 

The house describes its own approach as building trips its team has "understood, travelled and lived" first-hand, rather than simply booked from a supplier catalog. Its stated philosophy is direct about what luxury is not: not ostentation, but "meaning, contrast, emotion, and genuine human connection," built around discretion and letting a client disconnect completely from daily life.

The practice

Where they send

Namibia
Peru
Japan, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Indonesia Our team knows the destinations personally
Southern Europe: Italy, France, Spain and Greece

Main areas of specialty

Private À la Carte We specialize in fully tailor-made travel
Ski Holidays As a Swiss team, we have deep expertise in ski destinations.
Luxury Cruises
Desert Expeditions We operate desert expeditions across several continents

In-house

The Team Our team is made up of nine highly specialized travel designers
Knowledge and Service We know the destinations personally. We prioritize quality over quantity. We want to keep the highest level of service for each of our clients.
Who we design for Multigenerational families, couples, groups of friends, small companies.
What we don't do We don't operate pre-packaged trips from tour operators.

Standing

Affiliations

The Alliance — member house

Serandipians — Serandipians Traveller Made member agency

Belmond Bellini Club — Belmond Bellini Club member agency

Mandarin Oriental Fan Club — Mandarin Oriental Fan Club member agency

Marriott STARS & LUMINOUS — member agency

In print

Magazine References — OTSWISS is introduced in an article in Magazine References