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Marriot International, the largest hotel chain in the world by far. This is the list of chain-branded hotels around the world. This is a listing of some of the major hotel brands worldwide. [1] [2] The hotel groups may directly own the hotels, or operate them through a franchise or management agreement. [3]
Founded by the Fasano family in 1902, it currently operates hotels and restaurants in Brazil, [3] Uruguay [4] and the United States. [5] [6] [7] Gero Fasano remains the controlling shareholder with 37% and chairman of the group. As of 2023, Fasano operates 26 restaurants, nine hotels and employs 1,500+ people worldwide. [8]
List of casual dining restaurant chains; List of coffeehouse chains; List of chicken restaurants; List of fast food restaurant chains. List of defunct fast-food restaurant chains; List of ice cream parlors; List of pizza chains; Lists of restaurants; List of revolving restaurants; List of seafood restaurants
Independent hotels traditionally accounted for well over half of the hotels in Europe, unlike North America where chains have long dominated the market. While the proportion of chain hotels in Europe is constantly on the rise, the survival and indeed fight-back of the independent hotels sector is dependent on the use and development of referral ...
Howard Johnson by Wyndham, [7] still commonly referred to as Howard Johnson's, is an American hotel brand with over 200 hotels in 15 countries. [6] It was also formerly a restaurant chain, which at one time was the largest in the U.S., with more than 1,000 locations.
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]
A referral hotel is a hotel chain that offers branding to independently operated hotels; the chain itself is founded by or owned by the member hotels as a group. Many former referral chains have been converted to franchises; the largest surviving member-owned chain is Best Western .
January 1869: Forty-five Hotelmen met at Hotel Trier, in Koblenz, Germany and created an Alliance under the name of All Hotelmen Alliance (AHA) with the aim of facilitating growth and organization in the industry. In that era, hotels were of a different standard, and needed a strong voice to communicate their needs and sustain their businesses.