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Ramada opened its first hotel, a 60-room facility, on U.S. Route 66 at Flagstaff, Arizona in 1954 and set up its headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona, where the chain built the Sahara Hotel on North 1st Street downtown in 1956 (which later became the Ramada Inn Downtown) and a 300-room Ramada Inn in the 3800 block of East Van Buren in 1958 that ...
In April 2018, the company began rebranding most of its brands to include the Wyndham name, such as "Days Inn by Wyndham", "Ramada by Wyndham", and "Super 8 by Wyndham". [20] On May 30, 2018, Wyndham purchased the La Quinta hotel brand (franchised to 900 hotels with over 89,000 rooms) and its associated management business, for $1.95 billion in ...
In 2004, however, Cendant purchased Ramada International from Marriott, which gives Cendant worldwide rights to the Ramada name. Despite now being under the same ownership, Ramada and Ramada International remained separate entities. In 2006, the hotels and hospitality divisions of Cendant were spun off into Wyndham Worldwide.
Travel + Leisure Co. (formerly Wyndham Destinations, Inc., and Wyndham Worldwide Corporation) is an American timeshare company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. [7] It develops, sells, and manages timeshare properties under several vacation ownership clubs, including Club Wyndham, WorldMark by Wyndham, Margaritaville Vacation Club, and Accor Vacation Club.
[35] [36] It made moves towards building a major online travel portal by acquiring Galileo International for $2.9 billion, [37] [38] and Cheap Tickets for $425 million. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] It entered the timeshare sales and management business by buying Fairfield Communities for $690 million, [ 41 ] [ 42 ] and Trendwest Resorts for $980 million.
The trademark rights and franchise system were acquired for $39 million by HFS Inc., owner of other hotel brands such as Days Inn and Ramada. [5] [6] HFS was later merged into Cendant Corporation, [7] and Cendant's hotel services, including Travelodge, were spun off as Wyndham Hotels and Resorts in 2006. [8]
Renaissance Hotels was founded in 1981 as Ramada Renaissance, an upscale division of Ramada Inns. [1] The first property was located in Aurora, Colorado , outside Denver . Ramada's hotels and restaurants were sold to Hong Kong–based New World Development Ltd. in 1989 for $540 million.
Baymont by Wyndham, [2] formerly branded as Baymont Inn & Suites, is a hotel franchise owned by Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and based in the United States. [3] As of December 31, 2023, it has 546 properties with 41,357 rooms.