Raffles International Hotels and Resorts

Raffles Hotels & Resorts is a collection of 13 luxury hotels located in major cities around the globe and distinguishes itself by the highest standards of products and services. Each hotel is a landmark in its respective city and most are positioned at the top of their local markets. The collection of award-winning hotels includes Raffles Hotel and Raffles The Plaza in Singapore, Raffles L'Ermitage Beverly Hills in the US, Raffles Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Hamburg, Germany and Raffles Le Montreux Palace, Montreux, Switzerland. Raffles Taimana Resort Tahaa, French Polynesia is the latest addition to the portfolio.

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Historic Hotels of Europe

As Europe becomes a tangible reality, the "Historic Hotels of Europe" lets you explore the nooks and crannies of Europe, discovering the originality, the authenticity, the accents and the culinary expression of the various countries. Surprisingly, you will also detect a certain coherence, delighting in the influences and differences that have forged the personalities of these time-honoured civilizations. With a wealth of more than 800 châteaux, manors, convents, palaces, monasteries, farms, townhouses, villas, post-houses and family-owned residences, the "Historic Hotels of Europe" staunchly perpetuates the very essence of the Old Continent's prosperity, charm, diversity, seduction, its style and substance, in a word, its soul.

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Value Place

Jack DeBoer is known in the hospitality industry as the “father of extended-stay.” In the 1960s and 1970s, Jack was one of the largest apartment developers in the United States having developed over 16,000 apartments. From there he founded Residence Inn, Summerfield Suites, and Candlewood Suites building over 275 extended-stay hotels across the country. Putting the apartment and hotel experience together for a product that meets the unique needs of both residents and guests, Jack and his team have now started Value Place. At Value Place, we refer to our Franchisees as “Value Partners,” because we truly value the relationship we have with them and recognize the critical role they play in the success of the Value Place brand.

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Hospitality Properties Trust

Hospitality Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust ("REIT") that buys, owns and leases hotels. We currently own 274 hotels with 37,132 rooms costing $2.9 billion. Our business strategy is to invest in high quality hotels leased to experienced hotel operators for rent which exceeds our cost of capital. The average age of our hotels is eight years. We believe that our hotels are among the newest, best designed, best located and best managed hotels in their market segments.

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Sunterra Corporation

Sunterra Corporation is one of the world's premier vacation ownership company with a large network of resorts in key vacation destinations in North America, Europe, Mexico, the Caribbean and Hawaii. Building on this success, at the end of 1998 Sunterra introduced the next generation of vacation ownership product, Club Sunterra, a flexible points-based system designed to provide club members the greatest variety of vacation choices within a highly flexible system. This enables each member to enjoy a lifetime of vacations in unique destinations around the world. Sunterra also provides property management for vacation ownership resorts, condominiums, and hotels.

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Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts

Swissôtel Hotels & Resorts is a global hotel management company owned by Raffles International Hotels and Resorts. Each of our properties captures the character of its location and offers the finest of hospitality services. Visitors will find luxury accommodations and a full range of business and leisure amenities and services. Our international staff takes pride in offering personalized service to each of our guests wherever they visit us -- the Americas, Asia, Europe, or the Middle East.

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Tharaldson Property Management, Inc.

Established in 1982, Tharaldson Companies builds and operates select service and extended service hotels across the United States. Tharaldson Property Management, Inc., the largest independent hotel property management company, operates under contract nearly 340 hotels in 31 states. Tharaldson Development Company, Inc., the largest developer of new hotels, has more than 20 hotel projects in various phases of development.

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HOTUSA Hotels

Hotusa, Europe’s leading independent hotel chain, was set up in 1977 by a group of hoteliers who wished to enjoy the synergy offered by the major international chains without giving up their own personality. Today this association, the first of its kind in Europe, has proved its efficiency becoming a leading company with over 1500 associated hotels in 31 countries. Currently, the company has an extensive team of over 200 professionals who constitute a comprehensive, integrated organisational structure that is constantly undergoing a process of continuous improvement. Hotusa’s head office in Barcelona houses the following departments: individual client bookings (Central Booking Service, Internet and GDS’s), Group Bookings, Conferences, Incentives and Conventions, F.I.T. Department, Customer Service Centre, Marketing, Domestic and International Sales, Publications, Communication, Finance and Administration, I.T. and New Technology, Central Purchasing, Quality, Human Resources, Legal Advice and Expansion-Recruitment.

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HUSA Hotels (Spain)

Founded in 1930One of Spain's largest hotel chains, with more than 170 hotels in 125 cities across the country, employing around 2,000 professionals. Independent hotels are becoming increasingly aware of the potential benefits of associating with a leading hotel group like HUSA. The Grupo HUSA has created the company HUSA SERVICE to cover all its associate hotels, offering a variety of services.

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Iberostar Hotels & Resorts

Iberostar Hotels & Resorts, the hotel division of Grupo Iberostar, is one of the best-known hotel chains in the world. It has 74 hotels and a total capacity of 50,500 beds in eleven countries: Spain, Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey, Morocco, Tunisia, Cuba, Mexico and the Dominican Republic.

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Intrawest Corporation

Intrawest Corporation is the world's leading developer and operator of village-centered resorts. Intrawest owns or controls 10 mountain resorts in North America's most popular mountain destinations, including Whistler Blackcomb, a host venue for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The company also owns Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort in Florida and has a premier vacation ownership business, Club Intrawest. Intrawest is developing an additional five resort villages at locations in North America and Europe. The company has a 45 per cent interest in Alpine Helicopters Ltd., owner of Canadian Mountain Holidays, the largest heli-skiing operation in the world. Intrawest is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Kingdom Hotel Investments

Currently Kingdom Hotel Investments (KHI) owns 14 properties across the Middle East and Africa. Through local partnerships, KHI controls over $2 billion of real estate in the region. Its assets are either operational such as the Four Seasons Cairo, Four Seasons Sharm El Sheikh, Four Seasons Amman, Movenpick Beirut, Movenpick Bur Dubai, Movenpick El Gouna, and Movenpick Dar es-Salam, or under completion or scheduled to open during the next 24 months such as The Fairmont Cairo, The Fairmont Palm Hotel & Resort, the Four Seasons Damascus and Movenpick Pearl Dubai.

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St. Regis® Hotels & Resorts

St. Regis® Hotels & Resorts are the industry's newest collection of luxury hotels, all ideally situated in key destinations for an international clientele. With our superlative service and signature butlers, an array of world-class restaurants and sumptuous accommodations, we pamper our guests like no one else—anticipating and fulfilling every possible need. Each of the eight St. Regis properties reflects the distinct flavor of its setting, whether a historic landmark or resort location. The St. Regis family includes The St. Regis Beijing (formally the Beijing International Club Hotel), The St. Regis Grand, Rome (formally the Le Grand Hotel) and, in the United States, St. Regis hotels in Houston, Washington, D.C., Aspen and Los Angeles. Debuting in summer 2001 is The St. Regis Monarch Beach in Dana Point, California.

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Summit Hotels & Resorts

Founded in 1991, Summit Hotels & Resorts has rapidly grown to become a truly prestigious collection of luxury, independently-owned hotels. With more than 160 hotels, in over 125 destinations and 45 countries worldwide, Summit Hotels & Resorts provides the ultimate in luxury for the discerning guest. Collectively, our hotels are linked by a common thread of excellence and by a passionate commitment to deliver hospitality of outstanding quality.

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Luxe Worldwide Hotels

Luxe Worldwide Hotels is a privately held company, headquartered in Los Angeles California. Grown through acquisition, collecting the best expertise and talent available in the hospitality industry, Luxe has captured top spot on a touch of class with premiere boutique hotels, resorts, and Inns throughout the world. Luxe Hotels merges over 100 years of management experience with modern recognition of customer needs and membership demands. We offer real time booking functionality and online marketing and distribution to elevate our commitment to service to an all new level. Our benefits to member hotels are equally evaluated to assure the highest quality representation possible for each of our hotels.

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Sterling Hotels & Resorts

Sterling Hotels & Resorts is a global brand representing 34 contemporary independent hotels in 28 countries. Its properties are in city and resort locations across Europe and The Americas, and offer business and leisure travellers first-class accommodation that combines high quality amenities and value. Sterling offers its independent hotels GDS connectivity providing them a competitive edge against the chains in the global marketplace. Headquartered in Chicago, the company has sales offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Milan, Munich, Stockholm, Sao Paulo, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Dubai, Mexico City, Singapore, Moscow, New Delhi and Sydney.

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Westmont Hospitality Group

Westmont Hospitality Group is one of the world's largest privately held hospitality organizations. We own and/or manage over 400 hotels in three continents, and have formed strategic alliances with many of the world's largest hotel brands, including InterContinental Hotels, Choice Hotels, Hilton, Radisson, Cendant and Starwood. Over the past 30 years, we have also turned many under-performing properties into financial success stories. Our global partners continue to benefit from our extensive experience within the hospitality industry, hands-on management approach and service-first philosophy.

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Whitbread Hotel Company

The Whitbread Hotel Company is the UK's second largest hotel group with more than 330 hotels and many more on the way. Its value for money budget hotel Travel Inn and internationally branded four-star Marriott hotel, along with the great service provided by some genuinely wonderful people will ensure the Whitbread Hotel Company achieves its desire to be the UK's leading hotel company by 2005.

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Renaissance Hotels and Resorts

Renaissance Hotels and Resorts is an upscale brand providing full-service accommodations to business travelers, group meetings and resort travelers. Generally located in commercial or airport districts of major cities, Renaissance hotels offer multiple restaurants, business centers, pool, health club and conference/ banquet facilities. The system currently encompasses 36 hotels in the United States and 54 international properties.

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Ramada Worldwide

A globally recognized brand name, Ramada has more than 950 Ramada Limited, Inn and Plaza Hotel locations. Ramada, where kids always stay free, serves business and leisure travelers throughout the United States and Canada as well as over one million Ramada Business Card holders.

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Tourism, Hotels & Leisure Limited

Tourism, Hotels & Leisure Limited (THL) is a global accommodation management company based in Sydney and listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. It operates five hotel brands: Grand Pacific Suites & Resorts; Pacific International Suites, Apartments & Resorts; Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts; Plaza Hotels and Pensione Hotels. The key business assets of THL include proprietary hotel operating systems, intellectual properties, trade marks and management and franchise agreements. Over the last eighteen months, THL has acquired several new hotel brands, and as a result of a strategic partnership this January with the Netherlands-based global hotel operator Golden Tulip, it is also the exclusive development partner for the Golden Tulip brands in the Asia Pacific. The combined THL and Golden Tulip group, with its commercial alliance partners, is now the 11th largest hotel operator in the world. It has more than 534 hotels, in 342 destinations across 47 countries. Fifty-five of these are in the Asia-Pacific region, representing over 4,600 rooms. THL is aiming to expand its brands in the Asia Pacific, and is well placed to take advantage of the growth that is projected in the hospitality sector in the region.

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