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Accor S.A. is a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages and franchises hotels, resorts and vacation properties. [5] It is the largest hospitality company in Europe, and the sixth largest hospitality company worldwide. [6] Accor operates 5,584 locations in over 110 countries.
In July 1999, it sold the Charles Dickens Hotel in London to the Ryan Hotel Group for £20m. In June 2002, it initially sold 37 of its hotels to Orb Estates of Jersey for £598m, continuing to manage the properties, but the hotels are eventually sold to Atlantic Hotels for £700m and operated under the Thistle name.
Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts (German pronunciation: [ˈmøːvənpɪk]; English: / ˈ m uː v ə n ˌ p ɪ k /) is a Swiss hotel management company headquartered in Baar, Switzerland.It is fully owned by Accor since the September 2018 acquisition from former shareholders Mövenpick Holding (66.7%) and the Saudi-based Kingdom Group (33.3%).
In the 1970s, Sofitel became an international chain of hotels. The first Sofitel in the United States opened in 1975 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Sofitel entered the US market with a French approach to hospitality, making French baguettes on site, offering a wide selection of wines, providing bidets in 1/3 of the rooms, and hiring French chefs to manage the kitchens.
From 2011 to 2014, the number of Ibis Styles hotels increased by 65% reaching 250 locations in 21 countries. [5] In 2016, Accor announced the launch of Ibis Styles in the United States, near the LaGuardia Airport in New York, [14] at the London Heathrow Airport. [15] and in India. [16]
In 2012, Pullman Hotels announced 12 openings in Indonesia within 5 years, [7] opened its first property in the UK (the Pullman London St Pancras) [8] and in Vietnam, [9] and China became its biggest market. [10] By 2013, Pullman had opened 79 properties, half of those located in the Asia-Pacific region. [11]
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Novotel is a French midscale hotel brand owned by Accor. [1] Created in 1967 in France, the company grew into what became the Accor group in 1983, and Novotel remained a pillar brand of Accor's multi-brand strategy. Novotel manages 559 hotels in 65 countries (2021). [2] Since 2010, Novotel also includes the apartment hotel brand Novotel Suites. [2]