Westin Hotels & Resorts

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The Westin Grand in Berlin

Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles

Westin Hotels & Resorts is a hotel brand of Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide that was founded in the United States in 1930 and now operates 120 hotels in 24 countries.

history

In 1930 two hotel competitors met by chance at breakfast in the same restaurant in Yakima (Washington) . They got into conversation, got together and founded Western Hotels , a hotel chain with 17 hotels. In 1954 the name was changed by taking over a hotel in Canada from Western Hotels to Western International Hotels . In 1969 the hotels offered the world's first 24-hour service. In 1980 the name was again changed to Westin Hotels & Resorts for the 50th anniversary . From 1988–1989, the German Helmut Hoermann was the President of the Westin Group and targeted expansion into Germany.

Hotels

Germany

There are six hotels in the chain in Germany:

• The Westin Leipzig in Leipzig , formerly InterContinental Leipzig
• The Westin Grand Berlin in Berlin
• until the end of 2019: The Westin Bellevue Dresden in Dresden , from January 2020 Bilderberg Bellevue Hotel Dresden
• The Westin Hamburg in Hamburg-HafenCity , uses 19 floors in the Elbphilharmonie
• The Westin Grand Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main , formerly ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel
• The Westin Grand Munich in Munich , formerly ArabellaSheraton Grand Hotel

Worldwide

• Westin Bonaventure Hotel , Los Angeles , USA
• The Westin Dawn Beach Restort & Spa , St. Maarten
• The Westin Singapore , Singapore
• Westin Excelsior , in Rome on Via Veneto , Italy . The Villa La Cupola Suite at USD 30,000 per night was listed by CNN as one of the ten most expensive suites in the world in March 2012.

Web links

Commons : Westin Hotels & Resorts  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Westin Hotels website
• Washington State University Libraries on the History of Westin

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.bilderberg.nl/de/dresden/bellevue-hotel-dresden/
2. ^ Arnold, Helen: "World's 15 most expensive hotel suites" ( Memento of the original dated November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , CNN Go, March 25, 2012, accessed December 15, 2012