Omni Hotels & Resorts

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Omni Hotels & Resorts
Company type Private
Industry Hospitality
Founded1958
Headquarters Dallas, Texas
Key people
Kurt Alexander (president) [1]
Owner Robert Rowling
TRT Holdings
Website www.omnihotels.com

Omni Hotels & Resorts is an American privately held, international hotel company based in Dallas, Texas. [2] The company was founded in 1958 as Dunfey Hotels, and operates 51 properties in the United States and Canada, totaling over 20,010 rooms and employing more than 23,000 people.

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History

Dunfey Hotels was founded in 1958, when the Dunfey brothers added a 32-room motel to their Lamie's Tavern restaurant property in Hampton, New Hampshire. [3] They soon established a hotel chain throughout New England, [4] including 14 Sheraton Hotels franchises [5] in 1964. [6] In 1968, the Dunfeys acquired the near-bankrupt Parker House Hotel in Boston. [6] In 1971, the brothers sold Dunfey Hotels to the Hartford-based Aetna Life Insurance Company, which retained the brothers to manage the properties. [4] In 1976, Aer Lingus, the national airline of Ireland, purchased Dunfey Hotels from Aetna. [7]

In 1983, Dunfey Hotels acquired the small Atlanta-based Omni International Hotels chain from Cousins Properties. [8] The chain had been formed in 1973 [9] and consisted of three hotels in Atlanta, Norfolk and Miami. [6] Dunfey Hotels was reorganized into two operating divisions, with Omni Hotels focusing on large, upscale modern hotels, while the remaining smaller motels and Sheraton franchises were branded as Dunfey Hotels [4] while they were divested over the following three years. [5]

In 1988, Aer Lingus sold Omni Hotels to World International Holdings, Ltd., and the Hong Kong–based conglomerate The Wharf (Holdings) Limited for $135 million. [4] Those companies, in turn, sold Omni in February 1996 to Texas-based private equity investor Robert Rowling of TRT Holdings, [10] who moved the chain's headquarters for the very first time, from Hampton to his own base of Corpus Christi, Texas. The following year, Omni's headquarters moved again, to Dallas. [5]

In 2000, Omni Hotels struck a deal with Turner Broadcasting to build a 600-room tower wing addition next to their existing hotel located in the CNN Center. The new wing opened in 2003. Omni bought Time Warner's share of the building in 2017. [11]

In 2010, Omni Hotels purchased the Amelia Island Plantation in Florida for $67.1 million. [10]

In January 2013, Omni Hotels acquired ClubCorp's Montelucia Resort & Spa. [10] In June 2013, Omni Hotels acquired 5 properties (Barton Creek Resort & Spa in Austin, TX - La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, CA - Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa in Rancho Mirage, CA - The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC - The Homestead in Hot Springs, VA) from KSL Capital Partners. [12] With this deal - worth $900 million according to The Wall Street Journal - Omni Hotels became an owner and operator of iconic American golf resorts. [10] [13] In July 2013, Omni Hotels assumed management and operations of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, and bought shares of the property. [14] In December 2015, Omni Hotels acquired the Omni Mount Washington Resort from CNL Financial Group, which it had operated under its brand since 2009. [15]

In March 2018, Peter Strebel was named President of Omni Hotels & Resorts. [1]

In December 2020, unions criticized Omni for using the Paycheck Protection Program to obtain a low-interest loan for business purposes, rather than using the money to pay workers (which would have turned the loan into a grant). [16]

In March 2021, Omni sold five aging properties - Omni Dallas Hotel at Park West, Omni Houston Hotel at Westside, Omni San Antonio Hotel at the Colonnade, Omni Jacksonville Hotel and Omni Austin Hotel at Southpark. [17]

Properties

All hotels managed and/or owned by Omni Corporate. [18] The company had one franchised property, in Cancun, from 1988–2022.

United States

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The four-star, 32-story Omni San Diego Hotel in San Diego, California
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Omni Las Colinas Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas
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Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGates in Orlando, Florida
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Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Omni Louisville Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky
StateCityNameSince
Arizona Scottsdale Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia2014 [19]
Tempe Omni Tempe Hotel at ASU2023 [20]
Tucson Omni Tucson National Resort1996 [21]
California Carlsbad Omni La Costa Resort & Spa 2013 [12]
Los Angeles Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza 2000 [22]
Palm Springs Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa2013 [12]
San Diego Omni San Diego Hotel 2004 [23]
San Francisco Omni San Francisco Hotel 2002 [24]
Colorado Broomfield Omni Interlocken Resort1999 [5]
Connecticut New Haven Omni New Haven Hotel1998 [5]
District of Columbia Washington, D.C. Omni Shoreham Hotel 1979 [5]
Florida Fernandina Beach Omni Amelia Island Resort 2010 [10]
The Villas of Amelia Island2010 [10]
Fort Lauderdale Omni Fort Lauderdale2025 [25]
Orlando Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate2004 [26]
Georgia Atlanta Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park 1975 [27]
Cumberland, Georgia Omni Hotel at The Battery Atlanta 2018 [28]
Illinois Chicago Omni Chicago Hotel1993 [5]
Indiana Indianapolis Omni Severin Hotel 1989 [29]
Kentucky Louisville Omni Louisville Hotel2018 [30]
Louisiana New Orleans Omni Riverfront Hotel1996 [31]
Omni Royal Orleans 1981 [5]
Massachusetts Boston Omni Parker House 1968 [6]
Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport2021 [32]
Minnesota Eagan Omni Viking Lakes Hotel2020 [33]
New Hampshire Bretton Woods Omni Bretton Arms at Mount Washington2009 [15]
Omni Mount Washington Resort 2009 [15]
New York New York City Omni Berkshire Place 1977 [34]
North Carolina Asheville The Omni Grove Park Inn 2013 [12]
Charlotte Omni Charlotte Hotel1998 [35]
Oklahoma Oklahoma City Omni Oklahoma City Hotel2021 [36] [37]
Pennsylvania Bedford Omni Bedford Springs Resort 2009 [38]
Pittsburgh Omni William Penn Hotel 2001 [39]
Rhode Island Providence Omni Providence Hotel 2013 [40]
South Carolina Hilton Head Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort2012 [41]
Tennessee Nashville Omni Nashville Hotel2013 [42]
Texas Austin Omni Austin Hotel Downtown 1992 [43]
Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa2013 [12]
Corpus Christi Omni Corpus Christi1996
Dallas Omni Dallas Hotel 2011 [44]
Omni Las Colinas Hotel1992 [5]
Fort Worth Omni Fort Worth Hotel2009 [45]
Frisco Omni Frisco Hotel2017 [46]
Omni PGA Frisco Resort2023 [47]
Houston Omni Houston Hotel1991 [5]
San Antonio Omni La Mansion del Rio2006 [48]
Mokara Hotel & Spa2010 [49]
Virginia Charlottesville Omni Charlottesville Hotel1985 [50]
Hot Springs The Omni Homestead Resort 2013 [12]
Richmond Omni Richmond Hotel1987 [5]

International

CountryCityNameSince
Canada Montreal, Quebec Hotel Omni Mont-Royal1999 [5]
Toronto, Ontario The Omni King Edward Hotel 2013 [14]

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