Thon Hotels

Thon Hotels (formerly known as Rainbow Hotels) is a Norwegian-based hotel chain. It is currently the 3rd largest hotel chain in Norway with 50-odd hotels in Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.

Thon Hotels
TypePrivate
IndustryLodging
Founded1974
Headquarters
Area served
Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands
Key people
Olav Thon, CEO
WebsiteThonhotels.com

History

The Thon Hotel chain was established in 1989. Thon Hotels is part of the Olav Thon Group (Olav Thon Gruppen) which in turn is owned by the Olav Thon Foundation (Olav Thon Stiftelsen). Olav Thon bought Hotel Bristol in Oslo in 1974. In 1983 Thon bought his second hotel, before he founded Rainbow Hotel in 1989, which included 10 hotels. Over the next couple of decades, the hotel chain grew in numbers, and Thon extended his hotel business to Brussels in 1995 when he bought two hotels in the Belgium capital. Rainbow Hotels were rebranded to Thon Hotels in 2005.[1] [2][3][4]

References

  1. "Hotel Bristol". Kulturminnesøk. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  2. "Om Olav Thon Gruppen". Olav Thon Gruppen. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  3. "Olav Thon Gruppen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved November 1, 2017.
  4. Jon Gunnar Arntzen. "Olav Thon Stiftelsen". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved November 1, 2017.

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