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Holiday Inn is a chain of hotels based in Atlanta, Georgia and a brand of IHG Hotels & Resorts.The chain was founded in 1952 by Kemmons Wilson (1913–2003), who opened the first location in Memphis, Tennessee.
He opened the first Holiday Inn motel in Memphis in 1952, and quickly added others to create an entire hotel chain. Holiday Inn went international in 1960. Holiday Inn went international in 1960.
Holiday Inn Express was founded in 1990 under the ownership of Bass. [7] Plans at the time called for 250 locations to be open by 1995. [8] The first three hotels under the Holiday Inn Express name all opened in 1990. These were located in Nashville, Tennessee; Abilene, Texas; and Poughkeepsie, New York. All three were converted from existing ...
Holiday Inn: 1,206 Garner Hotels: 4 Holiday Inn Express: 3,190 Suites Atwell Suites: 3 Candlewood Suites: 384 Holiday Inn Club Vacations: 28 Staybridge Suites: 330 Exclusive Partners Iberostar Beachfront Resorts [38] 50
The Marriott hotel chain began when the Hot Shoppes, Inc. restaurant company decided to diversify into hotels. Its first hotel opened in 1957 in Virginia, the Marriott Motor Hotel, adjacent to The Pentagon and Washington National Airport. [4] The company's second hotel was the nearby Marriott Key Bridge Motor Hotel, which opened in 1959. [5]
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The hotel portion, originally part of the Holiday Inn chain, opened in August 1996. The casino opened on February 14, 1997. The Rancho Mesquite was owned by the Lee family, who were the only Nevada casino owners to be of Asian descent. Because of confusion with other businesses, the name was changed to Eureka in 2000.
The 520-room hotel opened on February 1, 1972, as the Holiday Inn Center Strip, [10] named for its location at the center of the Las Vegas Strip. [11] It consisted of a 14-story tower. [ 12 ] The adjacent Pyramids motel was purchased later that year for $750,000, and was demolished to provide additional parking space.