History of Westin Hotel

In 1930, Washington, USA, two hoteliers decided to merge and named the new Inn Western, which is the predecessor of the Westin brand today. At that time, Visteon was three partnerships; They are thurston, Dupas and Schmidt. In 1930s, Weston had 65,438+07 hotel bases all over Washington, and its footprints could be seen from Seattle to Everton. However, the 17 hotel at that time did not belong to the Westin Group today. One of the Franklin hotels was demolished at 1980 and converted into a 47-story Westin Seattle. Visteon was the first company to invent the concept of hotel management. The founder thinks that it is not necessary to own all the management rights of every hotel, but he can be responsible for hotel management. However, this is just one of the many innovations of Visteon in the industry. Just after Visteon was transformed into a hotel management company, the Schmidt family, one of the three major shareholders, decided to quit this business. They set up a brewery in 1936, just after the American prohibition.

Visteon invented the instant reservation confirmation system in the1940s, and they named the system hotel type. 1946, the credit card in the hotel was invented, which can be used for all services of the Weston Hotel, including the payment of travel expenses. Also in the 1940s, Visteon printed the hotel logo on towels, soap, post-it notes and other items in hotel rooms.

1954, Visteon added the word international to its name and became Visteon International Hotel, which the company hoped to symbolize its image as a new international hotel.

1955 On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the company, Visteon made two innovations.

They allow families traveling with children to enjoy free discounts for children. This service is called family planning.

Visteon provides a check-in guarantee for the reserved guests. If the reservation is confirmed, but there is no room in the hotel, Visteon will arrange for the guests to stay in other places and take them back to the original Visteon hotel the next day. Visteon 1970 merged with United Airlines. After the merger, a new company called Allegis was established.

1974 Visteon has set up a central reservation office in Omaha. This move comes from an agreement called WESTRON signed after the merger with United Airlines. This system later became the basis of many hotel reservation systems, including Hyatt and Marriott.

1980 weston international hotel changed its name to westin.

Westin Hotels & Resorts Group was officially named at 1985. 1987, Westin launched the distinguished Westin service for hotel frequent guests, so that frequent guests can enjoy more advanced services in the hotel. In the same year, Allegis sold visa nails to Aoki and Robert M. Bass Group.

199 1 year, Westin entered China to manage the Westin Pacific Hotel. 2/kloc-0 At the beginning of the century, this hotel was renamed Sheraton Shanghai Pacific Hotel by Sheraton Hotels Management Group, another hotel management brand under Starwood Group. 1995 Aoki sold the Visa nail to Edward Thomas, a partner of Starwood and Goldman Sachs, and Nomura Asset Management. 1997 Washington State University received a donation from Westin Hotels and Resorts Group.

1998 westin's management right fell to starwood hotels group today. Because Starwood bought its partner company, it took over Westin. Shortly before Starwood acquired Westin, Sheraton just became a member of Starwood, and Starwood became the largest hotel group in the world because of Sheraton and Westin.