Groupe du Louvre or Louvre Hotel Group[1] is a French company operating several hotel brands with over 1700 locations headquartered in La Défense in Nanterre, France.[3][4][2]

Louvre Hotel Group
Native name
Groupe du Louvre
IndustryHospitality
Headquarters,
France
Number of locations
1700+[1]
Area served
Worldwide[2]
Key people
Federico J. González, CEO[2]
ServicesHotels
Websitelouvrehotels.com

History

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The luxury hotels division (previously known as Société du Louvre) can trace its origins to a company founded on 26 March 1855 to operate Les Galeries du Louvre, later Grands Magasins du Louvre, a department store and the Grand Hôtel du Louvre. These shared a large building on the Place du Palais Royal in Paris, France.[5]

The company was owned by the American investment company Starwood Capital Group following its earlier purchase of Société du Louvre in December 2005.[6] Since 2009, the Golden Tulip hotels were integrated into the group following their purchase of Golden Tulip Hospitality Group from administration by Starwood Capital.[7] The group previously owned the Paris Hôtel de Crillon but sold it at the end of 2010.[8] The company sold the perfume firm Annick Goutal to the South Korean giant Amore Pacific in 2011.[9]

The range of hotel brands was extended in 2009 with the purchase of Golden Tulip Hospitality Group. Groupe du Louvre and Louvre Hotels Group was sold to Jinjiang International in 2015.[10]

Brands

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Golden Tulip in Warsaw
 
Tulip Inn in Eindhoven

As of 2024, Groupe du Louvre owns and operates over 1700 hotels under the following brands:[11]

Budget
  • Première Classe - budget hotels
  • Hosho - budget hotels
  • Kyriad Direct - budget hotels
Midscale
  • Kyriad - midscale hotels
  • Campanile - midscale hotels
  • Tulip Inn - midscale hotels
  • Tulip Hotels & Residences - midscale and long-stay hotels
Upscale
  • Golden Tulip - upscale hotels
  • Royal Tulip - luxury hotels
  • Hôtels & Préférence - upscale un-branded properties
  • Sarovar - upscale hotels with several sub-brands in India
  • TemptingPlaces - upscale boutique hotels

References

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  1. ^ a b louvrehotels.com retrieved 21 April 2024
  2. ^ a b c louvrehotels.com - Our group retrieved 21 April 2024
  3. ^ "Contact Archived 2010-09-11 at the Wayback Machine." Groupe du Louvre. Retrieved on 27 June 2010.
  4. ^ "Plan interactif Archived 2009-08-30 at the Wayback Machine." Nanterre. Retrieved on 27 June 2010.
  5. ^ Vajda, Joanne (2008). "Les Pereire et les Nalgelmackers, promoteurs du transport ferroviaire et du réseau hôtelier parisien, 1855-1900". Revue d'histoire des chemins de fer (38): 27–44. doi:10.4000/rhcf.1256. ISSN 0996-9403. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  6. ^ Starwood Capital. starwoodcapital.com.
  7. ^ Reuters 7 July 2009 Retrieved on 5 August 2012.
  8. ^ BBC News 23 December 2010 Retrieved on 5 August 2012
  9. ^ "Cosmetics giant snaps up French perfumery". Korea Joongang Daily. 4 August 2011. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  10. ^ Group, Starwood Capital. "Starwood Capital Group completes the sale of Groupe du Louvre and Louvre Hotels Group to Shanghai Jin Jiang International Hotels Development Co., Ltd". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2018-06-11. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  11. ^ louvrehotels.com - Our brands retrieved 21 April 2024
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