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| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hotels |
| Founded | 1946 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Number of locations | 4,700 (worldwide)[1] |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people |
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| Revenue | US$247,000,000 (2019) |
Number of employees | 1,254 (2012) |
| Parent | BWH Hotel Group |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references Data from Hoover's factsheet | |
Best Western International, Inc. owns the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it licenses to over 4,700 hotels worldwide.[1] The franchise, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona,[2] includes more than 2,000 hotels in North America.[3] The brand was founded by M. K. Guertin in 1946. As of December 2021, Larry Cuculic is the president and CEO of Best Western. As of 2018, it was nonprofit owned by its franchisee members.[4]
In 1964 Canadian hotel owners joined the system. Best Western then expanded to Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand in 1976.
In 2002 Best Western International launched Best Western Premier in Europe and Asia. (The other hotels in the chain were known as Best Western.) In 2011, the chain's branding system-wide changed to a three-tiered system: Best Western, Best Western Plus, and Best Western Premier.[5]
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- ^ "Contact Us Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine." Best Western. Retrieved February 21, 2010.
- ^ "About Best Western Hotels and Resorts". bestwestern.com. Retrieved June 13, 2018.
- ^ "Best Western's membership votes down for-profit conversion". Hotel Management. Retrieved 2020-04-12.
- ^ "Best Western".