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24-1070: Fairmont Hotel may refer to: Fairmont Hotels and Resorts , a Canada-based operator of luxury hotels and resorts Fairmont Nile City , a hotel in Cairo next to the Nile River, in Egypt Fairmont Palliser Hotel , a 1914 hotel in Calgary, Alberta, of the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain Hotel Vancouver , branded currently as the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Fairmont San Francisco , California Fairmont San Jose , California Fairmont Hotel (San Antonio, Texas) Fairmont Hotel (Spokane, Washington) , listed on

48-493: A cluster of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts was sold for US$ 3.9 billion to Colony Capital, LLC . As a result of that purchase, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts was united with Raffles Hotels and Resorts and Swissôtel to form Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI), though the four chains still operate under their individual names. In April 2010, Kingdom Hotels sold 22% of its shares of FRHI (from 58% to 35%) to Qatari Diar Real Estate Investment, giving them 40% of FRHI and became

72-777: A few hotels outside Canada, with properties in Germany , Israel , Mexico , and the United States . CPR's rival Grand Trunk Railway and later Canadian National Railway copied Van Horne's approach by building hotels such as the Jasper Park Lodge in Jasper, Alberta, and the Château Laurier in Ottawa. CPR purchased Canadian National Hotels , Canadian National Railway's hotel division in 1988, making CP Hotels

96-485: A subsidiary of AccorHotels in 2016. Canadian Pacific Hotels (CP Hotels) began as a division of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) Hotels department. The division operated a series of hotels along CPR's rail lines as early as 1886. Many of these resort hotels were built and operated by the railway's hotel department, while a few were later acquired from Canadian National Hotels , a hotel division of

120-950: The Canadian National Railway . Over the years, a collection of grand railway hotels was put together throughout Canada, both rural and urban. By the 1980s, CP Hotels' collection included the Chateau Lake Louise , the Banff Springs Hotel , the Château Frontenac , the Empress Hotel , the Palliser Hotel , the Fairmont Royal York , and others. In addition to its properties in Canada, the hotel chain operated

144-1070: The Plaza Hotel in New York in 1995 and purchased the Copley Plaza Hotel in 1996, renaming it The Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel . By 1998, the company managed seven properties in the United States. In addition to those properties, the company also operated the Colony Square Hotel in Atlanta as Fairmont Colony Square Hotel from its opening in 1974 to 1977, and The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in Philadelphia as Fairmont Philadelphia from 1979 to 1980. In April 1999, Canadian Pacific Hotels, Kingdom Hotels International and Maritz Wolff & Co. bought Fairmont Hotels Management L.P., with Canadian Pacific Hotels holding

168-486: The "signature" hotels and resorts under the new Fairmont banner. Later that year in October 2001, Canadian Pacific Limited spun off all of its subsidiary companies into separately traded "independent" companies, including Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. Companies like Fairmont Hotels and Resorts were split into smaller companies in a 2001 " starburst " move designed to increase the valuations of its individual divisions. In

192-692: The 1960s, the Swig family developed Fairmont into a small chain of luxury hotels throughout the United States. Operating as Fairmont Hotels Management, the hotel chain acquired, and built a number of hotel properties. The chain acquired the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans in 1965, renaming it the Fairmont Roosevelt, and then Fairmont New Orleans. The Fairmont San Jose was opened by the hotel chain in 1987. The company assumed management of

216-1194: The Fairmont Ambassador Seoul in South Korea. The following is a non-exhaustive list of hotels and resorts managed by company. } Canadian National Hotels Canadian National Hotels was a hotel chain under control by Canadian National Railways . In addition to their own hotels, it acquired some from predecessor railway companies like the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway , Grand Trunk Railway and Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway . Some of their assets were later acquired by rival Canadian Pacific Hotels after 1988. Surviving hotels [ edit ] Fairmont Hotels and Resorts [ edit ] [REDACTED] Château Laurier, Ottawa, Ontario [REDACTED] Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, British Columbia [REDACTED] Newfoundland Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador Château Laurier Ottawa, Ontario , 1923–1988 – Built for Grand Trunk Railway and now part of

240-1198: The Fairmont chain as Fairmont Château Laurier Jasper Park Lodge Jasper, Alberta , 1923–1988 – Built for Canadian National Railway and now part of the Fairmont chain as Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge The Macdonald Edmonton, Alberta , 1923–1988 – Built for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and now part of the Fairmont chain as Fairmont Hotel Macdonald Hotel Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia , 1939–1988 – jointly operated with CP Hotels 1939–1962. Now part of Fairmont chain as Fairmont Hotel Vancouver Queen Elizabeth Hotel Montreal, Quebec , 1958–1988 – now part of Fairmont chain as Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth with building owned by Ivanhoé Cambridge . Delta Hotels [ edit ] The Bessborough Saskatoon, Saskatchewan 1928–1972 – now owned by Delta Hotels as Delta Bessborough Hotel Beauséjour Moncton, New Brunswick 1972–1988 – now owned by Delta Hotels as Delta Beauséjour with building owned by Legacy Hotels Real Estate Investment Trust Others [ edit ] Newfoundland Hotel St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador 1949–1982. (Old hotel

264-645: The National Register of Historic Places in Spokane County, Washington See also [ edit ] The Roosevelt New Orleans , formerly the Fairmont New Orleans Fairmont Olympic Hotel (Seattle) , a historic hotel in downtown Seattle, Washington Fairmount Hotel (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

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288-620: The USA, Fairmont acquired the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California in 2014. In 2015, AccorHotels, with the approval and support of the external party, announced the acquisition of FRHI, thus adding Raffles Hotels and Resorts , Fairmont and Swissôtel to its Luxury Hotel Brands portfolio. Acquiring Fairmont Hotels & Resorts enabled the French hotel group to gain greater access to

312-636: The early 2000s, Fairmont multiplied its openings in the United States. In 2001, Fairmont introduced the Willow Stream Spa prototype, a $ 7 million 2-floor 8,000-square-foot spa located inside the Fairmont Empress Hotel. The signature spa brand was then implemented in many of Fairmont's locations. In July 2001, Fairmont Hotels signed a joint-venture with Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan for a minority-stake purchase and

336-566: The first hotel to bear the Fairmont namesake. The nearly completed structure survived the earthquake of 1906 . Although heavily damaged by the subsequent fires, the hotel was renovated under the eye of architect Julia Morgan and finally opened in 1907. In 1926, the Penthouse Suite was created with three secret passageways to access it. In 1945, the Fairmont San Francisco was acquired by Benjamin Swig . Beginning in

360-477: The late 19th century, the Canadian Pacific Limited -owned Canadian Pacific Hotels & Resorts , and Fairmont Hotels. In 1999, Canadian Pacific Hotels acquired a majority interest in Fairmont Hotels; with Canadian Pacific Hotels later renaming its entire hotel portfolio under the Fairmont Hotels & Resorts banner in 2001. Shortly after the hotel division was renamed, Canadian Pacific Limited

384-771: The lucrative North American market. In 2015, Fairmont stated it would invest in two new hotels in Egypt, in addition to its existing Fairmont hotel located in Cairo. In 2017, Fairmont opened the Fairmont Quasar Istanbul, its first hotel in Turkey . In 2019, Fairmont opened its first South American hotel in Brazil. In 2021, Fairmont opened the Fairmont Taghazout Bay hotel in Morocco , and

408-481: The majority of the shares (67%). In 2001, Canadian Pacific Limited , the parent company of both Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts, and Canadian Pacific Railway, was reorganized. During this reorganization, Canadian Pacific Hotels and Resorts was renamed to Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, using the name of the company it had purchased in 1999. The newly re-organized Fairmont company transferred several properties to its Delta Hotels subsidiary, although it retained most of

432-580: The management of a luxury 393-room hotel in Dubai . The Fairmont Dubai property was the first Fairmont branded hotel in the Middle East. In 2003, Fairmont introduced Fairmont Heritage Place, a chain of timeshare hotels, with the first opening in Mexico . In 2004, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. paid $ 70 million to take full control of the management company that runs its properties. Then in early 2006,

456-718: The nation's largest hotel owner. In the 1990s, CP Hotels began to expand and purchased the Canadian Delta Hotels chain and the international Princess Hotels chain in 1998, which became wholly owned subsidiaries of CP Hotels. In 1999, the CP Hotels purchased the San Francisco-based Fairmont Hotels and Resorts chain. During the 1890s, James Graham Fair bought the land where the Fairmont San Francisco now stands,

480-951: The second largest shareholder of the company. The remaining 60% belonged to a private shares holding in Sweden, trusted in ACCOR hotels, and other investors. The Middle East became Fairmont's new target market, where Fairmont opened in the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel in 2010 and at the Palm Jumeirah in 2012. In Asia, Fairmont reopened the Peace Hotel in Shanghai in 2010, opened in Baku ’s Flame Towers in 2011, and opened its first hotel in India in 2012. In

504-537: The title Fairmont Hotel . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairmont_Hotel&oldid=981484569 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Fairmont Hotels and Resorts The company originated from two hotel businesses established in

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528-507: Was reforested with red pine Grand Beach Hotel, Grand Beach, Manitoba , – built by Canadian Northern Railway , opened 1916. Operated by lessee in later years of Canadian National ownership until 1961; hotel gone sometime after 1961 and area known as Grand Beach Provincial Park . The site is now a wooded area of Point Grand Marais. Minaki Lodge , Minaki, Ontario 1923-1950s; Built for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and later sold to Government of Ontario; main lodge burned down 2003 and site

552-1441: Was replaced by a new one that CN operated from 1982 to 1988. Sold off to Canadian Pacific Hotels in 1988.) and later operated as Fairmont Newfoundland; now part of Sheraton Hotels chain as Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland The Nova Scotian , Halifax, Nova Scotia , 1928-1988? - now operated by Westin Hotels The Charlottetown Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island , 1931-1980s - now owned by Rodd Hotels and Resorts and operated as Rodd Charlottetown Pictou Lodge Pictou, Nova Scotia , - originally built as Wentworth Lodge by The Bungalow Camps Company and auction to CNR in 1926; sold 1957 and now operates as independent Pictou Lodge Resorts The Fort Garry Winnipeg, Manitoba , 1923-1979 - Built for Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and now operated as an independent hotel Prince Arthur Hotel Port Arthur, Ontario , 1911-1988 - now independent hotel and resort L'Hotel , Toronto, Ontario , 1984–1988; later as Crowne Plaza Hotel and now as InterContinental Toronto Centre Demolished hotels [ edit ] Highland Inn , Algonquin Provincial Park 1923-1932 – Built for Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway and later owned by CN Rail (1923–1931) and last owned by Government of Ontario; dismantled and burned 1957; area

576-486: Was split into several smaller companies in a starburst move, with Fairmont becoming a separately-traded company. In 2006, Fairmont was acquired by Colony Capital , who subsequently entered into a joint partnership with the Kingdom Holding Company ; consolidating Fairmont with their other hotel brands, Raffles and Swissôtel to form Fairmont Raffles Hotels International (FRHI). FRHI in turn became

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