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The Paramount also known as the Best Western Paramount, is a former hotel located in the Hamlet of Parksville, New York; Right outside of Liberty, New York.Today it remains abandoned after a fire in October 2000, which destroyed the lobby, the two-story office, the conference space, the kitchen and nightclub.
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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.
Guertin was known as "Mr. Motel" to a generation of owners who were involved in building Best Western. Under Best Western's ownership model, [5] each hotel is independently owned and operated, and the brand supports hotels with marketing and supply support. Best Western is now a global hotel brand with 4,200 hotels in more than 100 countries. [1]
After the New York Drama Critics' Circle was founded at the Algonquin in 1935, it started hosting annual dinners at the hotel, [121] [122] wherein the group voted on the best play of the year. [116] The hotel's staff joined a labor union affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1939, and they went on strike.
From November 1, 1965, to 1970, Western International had an agreement with Hotel Corporation of America (today known as Sonesta), under which all 72 hotels of the two chains were jointly marketed as HCA and Western Hotels. [3] [11] From 1968 to 1973, Western International had a similar joint marketing agreement with UK-based Trust House Hotels.