Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Accor bought 20% of the Polish hotel company Orbis. [27] In 2002, Accor settled in Mexico. [28] In 2004, Accor bought a 28.9% stake in the French all-inclusive holidays' company Club Méditerranée. [29] In 2005, Gilles Pélisson, nephew of Accor's co-founder Gérard Pélisson, became chairman and CEO. [30]
In 2006, Accor and Motel 6 invested more than $6 million in properties to help rebuild New Orleans and Gulfport following Hurricane Katrina. One of the Motel 6 co-founders, William Becker, died of a heart attack at the age of 85 the next year. [9] The company was sold by Accor to The Blackstone Group in 2012 for $1.9 billion. [10]
In 1994, Carlson and Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, a division of Accor, merged their travel agencies to form CWT, a travel management company. [13] In 1997, Carlson acquired Regent Hotels & Resorts from Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts . [ 14 ]
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]
Pullman Hotels and Resorts is a French multinational upscale hotel brand owned by Accor. Pullman has 145 hotels and resorts in 42 countries spread across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle-East and Oceania. [1]
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
In 2007, Formule 1 was rebranded as HotelF1. In September 2009, Accor announced the sale of 158 HotelF1 hotels in a €272-million sale and management-back deal. [9] In 2012, following a new hotel star-rating system in France, HotelF1 became a one-star hotel brand. [10] In 2017, Accor unveiled a rebranding and refurbishment for its HotelF1 chain.
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.