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Which country does the Four Seasons Hotel belong to?

Should be Canada

The founder of the famous Four Seasons ultra-luxury hotel chain

isadore sharp Isadore Sharp (people call him Issy) is a famous Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Four Seasons ultra-luxury hotel chain.

Mr. Xia Bai was born on October 8, 1931 in Toronto. As a child, Issy began helping her father on his construction sites (and supplementing her pocket money by selling chewing gum). He graduated from Ryerson Institute of Technology in 1952 with a degree in architecture. After graduation, he began to join his father's construction industry, doing some design and construction work. By 1955, his innovative thinking was beginning to create a different concept: not on the seedy edge of a city, but in the middle of it, although it was once a red light district and later became the heart of Toronto. , build a motel that gives people aesthetic enjoyment and provides personalized services. By raising funds from family and friends, the Four Seasons Motel, which cost a total of $1.5 million and had 125 rooms priced at $15 a night, was born in 1961. Just a year later, Mr. Sharp opened the first Inn on the Park hotel in Toronto. In the next ten years, he opened a branch in London, England, which was also London's first luxury hotel (Inn on the Park), now renamed Four Seasons, and the Four Seasons Hotel in Netanya, Israel (now managed by Dan Hotel Chain ).

In 1972, he helped create the 1,600-room Four Seasons Sheraton Convention Hotel in Toronto, but he quickly withdrew. Because he decided to create his own brand and chain around the world, he focused his efforts on medium-sized, ultra-luxury hotels and resorts of the highest quality. Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts is now the world's largest ultra-luxury hotel management company. Still headquartered in Toronto, it manages 50 hotels in 22 countries around the world, with 15 hotels under construction soon to open in 10 more countries, including in the Middle East. The newly renovated and luxurious Hotel George V opened in France in December 2000 and was the first Four Seasons hotel to open in Paris.