Fairmont Hotels and Resorts

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Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is a Toronto, Ontario based owner/operator of luxury hotels and resorts currently located in 13 countries including Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Barbados, United Kingdom, Monaco, Germany, Switzerland, Kenya, Zanzibar, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore. Additional destinations will be added over the next few years.

Fairmont is known in Canada for its famous historic hotels and resorts such as the Empress Hotel (Victoria) and Hotel Vancouver in British Columbia, the Royal York in Toronto, Banff Springs in Alberta and Château Frontenac in Quebec City. Many of these hotels were originally built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As such, they were operated by Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts until CP Hotels purchased Fairmont in 1999 and changed their name to Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. The name change reflected the new international focus of the company and gave name recognition to their subsequently acquired international properties.

Fairmont's portfolio also includes several other landmark and icon properties including Plaza Hotel in New York, the Savoy Hotel in London and the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, which is currently under-going an extensive renovation.

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The original Fairmont name began in 1907 with the namesake in San Francisco. The hotel opened following the great earthquake in the city. It was later acquired by Benjamin H. Swig in 1945.

The Fairmont chain consisted of seven properties in the United States when it merged with Canadian Pacific Hotels & Resorts in 1999:

  • The Fairmont (San Francisco)
  • The Fairmont, New Orleans (formerly Grunewald)
  • The Fairmont Copley Plaza (Boston)
  • The Plaza (New York)
  • The Fairmont Chicago
  • The Fairmont Dallas
  • The Fairmont San Jose

In early 2006, after a contentious bidding war started by investor Carl Icahn. Icahn lost the bid and Fairmont agreed to be sold for $3.9 billion USD. Fairmont announced on January 30, 2006 that the company will be purchased by Colony Capital, LLC and Kingdom Hotels International. As a result of that purchase, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts is now a subsidiary of Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI). At the time of the purchase, FRHI also owned Delta Hotels & Resorts; however, Delta was sold on October 2, 2007 to bcIMC (British Columbia Investment Management Corporation).

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts was named one of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2008, as published in Maclean's magazine, the only hotel operator to receive this honour. This is the 6th consecutive year that Fairmont has received this honour.[1]

British Columbia

Alberta

Manitoba

Ontario

Québec

Atlantic

Anguilla

Barbados

Bermuda

Mexico

  • The Fairmont Acapulco Princess (Resort) in Acapulco
  • The Fairmont Pierre Marques (Resort) in Acapulco
  • Fairmont Heritage Place Acapulco Diamante in Acapulco
  • Fairmont Mayakoba (Resort) in Playa del Carmen


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