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Radisson Blu is an international hotel brand managed and operated by Radisson Hotels, and owned by Choice Hotels, Jinjiang International and the Radisson Hotel Group. Founded as the SAS Hotels in 1960, the Radisson Blu brand name came into existence in 2006 with a rebranding of Radisson SAS.
Radisson Blu has roots dating back to the opening of the SAS Royal Hotel in Denmark in 1960 and was the world's first designer hotel. [20]: 378–379 After several name changes, spin offs, and rebranding, the Radisson Blu brand name was established in 2009. [21] Radisson Blu Edwardian Hotels is a line of luxury hotels in London and Manchester ...
The agreement gave birth of the co-brand Radisson SAS, which became Radisson Blu since 2009. SAS International Hotels, later known as Rezidor SAS Hospitality in 2001 and then Rezidor Hotel Group in 2006, had expanded into a hotel group that consisted of more than 320 hotels as of 2008.
The President stayed at the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel during his overnight visit. Poland: Warsaw: June 15–16: State Visit. Met with President Aleksander Kwaśniewski at the Presidential Palace and Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek. The President delivered a foreign policy speech in front of faculty and students at Warsaw University during his ...
On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. [5] [6] [7] The siege was ended when Malian special forces, backed by U.S. and French personnel, launched an assault on the hotel to recover the surviving hostages.
The same year saw the opening of the Radisson Blu hotel, costing NOK 220 million, and a new fire station for NOK 80 million. [18] From 31 October 2009, Norwegian started a weekly service to Las Palmas, Spain. [66] On 31 January 2010, SAS operated its last service to Molde.