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Best Western Hotels & Resorts

Consumer Discretionary

Best Western International, Inc. owns the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it licenses to over 4,500 hotels worldwide. The franchise, with its corporate headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, includes more than 2,000 hotels in North America. The brand was founded by M. K. Guertin in 1946. As of 2018, it was a nonprofit owned by its franchisee members.

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Company Type
Hotel chain 1
Founded Year
1946 1
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Best Western operates as a nonprofit association of independently owned hotels trading under one shared brand and reservation system, the hotel industry form of a symbol group.

Operates In

Source Wikidata: Best Western Hotels & Resorts
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1. Wikidata: Best Western Hotels & Resorts
Wikidata
  • Wikidata item description
    international hotel chain
  • Wikidata statement: inception (P571)
    inception: 1946
  • Operates In: Hospitality Industry, Wikidata statement: industry (P452)
    industry (P452) target Q1495452, matched to the live industry entity "Hospitality Industry" by qid (enwiki-sitelink resolved)
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