Wyndham Hotels & Resorts
hotel and resort chain
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc., is an American hospitality company based in Parsippany, New Jersey. It describes itself as the largest hotel franchisor in the world, with 9,100 locations.
The company was formed on June 1, 2018, as a spin-off from Wyndham Worldwide, which is now known as Travel + Leisure. As of 2024, it has a portfolio of 25 hotel brands, amongst them are Days Inn, Howard Johnson's, Ramada, Super 8 and Travelodge.
History
Early history
The Wyndham hotel brand was created in 1981 in Dallas, Texas, by Trammell Crow, the president of Trammell Crow Company. Business journalist Wyndham Robertson, who wrote a profile of Crow for Fortune magazine in the early 1970s, claimed that the hotel chain was named for her, saying, "He loved my name. I never got him to admit that he named [the hotels] for me in public but he did in private." As the chain grew, it was acquired in 1998 by Patriot American Hospitality, later named Wyndham International.
Blackstone Group bought Wyndham International in 2005, and later that year sold the Wyndham hotel brand to Cendant. Cendant's predecessor was Hospitality Franchise Systems (HFS), founded in 1990 as a vehicle to acquire hotel franchises. By 1995, it had acquired the Days Inn, Howard Johnson, Ramada, and Super 8 brands.
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