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The Whitcomb Hotel, located in St. Joseph, Michigan, was a renowned hotel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries known for its mineral spa and panoramic views of Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph River. It is now a four-star senior living community. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. [1]
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]
The Inn at St. John's is now legally named Saint John's Resort a luxury boutique hotel and golf resort located in the Metro Detroit city of Plymouth, Michigan. The hotel contains the "Five Steakhouse" restaurant. In addition, Saint John's has 54,000+ sq ft of meeting space for corporate meetings, galas, and large events.
The Chartres Lodging Group, is an American advisory and investment firm focused on the property management, asset management, renovation and development of lodging assets. It has been responsible for over $9 billion of hospitality investments and assets comprising over 100 upscale and luxury hotels , resorts and conference centers.
The American Hotel and Lodging Association (AHLA; formerly the American Hotel and Motel Association, and before that American Hotel Association) is an industry trade group with thousands of members including hotel brands, owners, management companies, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), independent hotels, bed and breakfasts, state hotel associations and industry partners and suppliers.
In 1993, HFS purchased the Super 8 brand, franchised to 1,000 motels, for $125 million, [7] [8] and bought the 61-hotel Park Inn brand. [9] The company made a brief foray into the casino industry, but then spun off that business in November 1994 as National Gaming. [10] In 1995, HFS launched a new hotel brand, Wingate Inn. [11]
After the company divested its non-hotel business and reorganized as a real estate investment trust in 1998, [7] it adopted its current name—Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.—in 2006. [8] [9] On November 2, 2020, Host Hotels & Resorts switched its stock listing from the New York Stock Exchange to the Nasdaq Global Select Market. [10]
Although by the early 1920s there were four hotels in Port Huron, a group of area businessmen determines that the city lacked enough modern hotel accommodations catering to the river trade. In 1925, they formed the St. Clair Community Hotel Corporation, and proposed building a sixty-room hotel at a cost of approximately $180,000.