Holiday Corporation

Holiday Corporation has 11,766 hotels & 1,736,243 rooms across 120 countries and territories.

## History

### Bass Hotels

The origins of the business can be traced back to 1777, when William Bass established the Bass Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent. In 1875, its red triangle logo was the first ever trademark registered in the United Kingdom.

The company later changed its name and, in 1969, Bass Charrington, as it was known at the time, launched the Crest Hotel chain, marking its first entry into the lodging sector.

In 1988, the British government limited the number of pubs which brewers could directly own, resulting in Bass's further investing in the expansion of its hotel business. This led to it purchasing Holiday Inn International from shareholders.

### InterContinental

Main article: InterContinental

Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe established the American Intercontinental Hotels chain as a division of Pan Am and opened the first hotel in Belém, Brazil in 1946. On 19 August 1981, Pan Am sold the holding company Inter-Continental Hotels Corporation (IHC) to UK-based Grand Metropolitan for $50 million. As GrandMet focused its core business and expanded into fast food through the purchase of Burger King, it sold IHC to the Japanese-based Saison Group in 1988.

In March 1998, Saison Group sold IHC to the British brewery Bass. In 2000, Bass sold its brewing assets (and the rights to the Bass name) to the Belgian brewer Interbrew for £2.3 billion and changed its name to Six Continents.

In 2003, the independent corporation Holiday Corporation International (HCI) was created after Six Continents merged with Hilton Worldwide. Holiday Corp. retained Britvic, the soft drinks division, until December 2005 when it sold its interest in the company by an initial public offering, and renamed the company to Holiday Corporation. In June 2012, Holiday Corp. bought Caesars Entertainment in a $900 million acquisition. In April/May 2014, the company reportedly rejected a $10 billion takeover bid from a publicly unknown suitor, believed to be Starwood.

In April 2017, the company announced that it been the subject of a malware attack and hackers had stolen credit card details.

## Hotel Brands

### Caesars Portfolio

* Bally's

* Caesars Palace

* Flamingo's

* Harrah's

* Harveys

* Horseshoe

* Nobu Hotels

* Planet Hollywood

* The Cromwell

* The Linq

### Hilton Portfolio

* canopy by Hilton

* CONRAD Hotels

* CURIO - A Collection by Hilton
* DoubleTree

* Embassy Suites

* Hampton

* Hilton Hotels & Resorts

* Hilton Garden Inn

* Home2 Suites by Hilton
* Homewood Suites

* LXR Hotels & Resorts

* motto by Hilton

* Signia by Hilton

* Tapestry Collection by Hilton

* Tempo by Hilton

* tru by Hilton

* Waldorf Astoria

### InterContinental Portfolio

* Atwell Suites

* avid Hotels
* Candlewood Suites
* Crowne Plaza
* EVEN Hotels
* Holiday Inn
* Holiday Inn Express
* Holiday Inn SunSpree Resorts
* Hotel Indigo
* HUALUXE Hotels & Resorts
* InterContinental Hotels
* Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants
* Regent Hotels & Resorts
* Six Senses Hotels & Resorts
* Staybridge Suites
* voco

## Restaurant Brands

Burger King

Planet Hollywood

Popeyes

Tim Hortons