Sitting just below the summit of the Furka pass, the Hotel Belvédère was built in 1882 by the hotelier Josef Seiler who owned the Grand Hôtels Seiler at Zermatt and Riffelalp. The hotel itself has been closed since 2015, its decline started before its brief appearance in Goldfinger. The trains brought customers to the hotel in the 1900s but as cars became more reliable and could travel further in a day, fewer people needed to stay on the pass.
The Furka base tunnel completed in 1982 put an end to daily use of the pass and the final nail in the coffin of the hotel. Ironically the abandoned hotel has now become an Instagramable location and car enthusiasts turn up to get a photo with this enigmatic building. The inclusion in books like Atlas Obscura and Accidentally Wes Anderson no doubt help.