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Omni Hotels & Resorts
Company typePrivate
IndustryHospitality
Founded1958
HeadquartersDallas, Texas
Key people
Kurt Alexander (president)
OwnerRobert Rowling, TRT Holdings
Websitewww.omnihotels.com

Omni Hotels & Resorts is an American privately held, international luxury hotel company based in Dallas, Texas. The company was founded in 1958 as Dunfey Hotels, and operates 50 properties in the United States, Canada, and formerly had a property in Mexico, totaling over 20,010 rooms and employing more than 23,000 people.

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. They soon established a hotel chain throughout New England, including 14 Sheraton Hotels franchises in 1964. In 1968, the Dunfeys acquired the near-bankrupt Parker House Hotel in Boston. In 1971, the brothers sold Dunfey Hotels to the Hartford-based Aetna Life Insurance Company, which retained the brothers to manage the properties. In 1976, Aer Lingus, the national airline of Ireland, purchased Dunfey Hotels from Aetna.

In 1983, Dunfey Hotels acquired the small Atlanta-based Omni International Hotels chain from Cousins Properties. The chain had been formed in 1973 and consisted of three hotels in Atlanta, Norfolk and Miami. 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 while they were divested over the following three years.

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. Those companies, in turn, sold Omni in February 1996 to Texas-based private equity investor Robert Rowling of TRT Holdings, 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.

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.

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

In January 2013, Omni Hotels acquired ClubCorp's Montelucia Resort & Spa. 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. With this deal - worth $900 million according to The Wall Street Journal - Omni Hotels became an owner and operator of iconic American golf resorts. In July 2013, Omni Hotels assumed management and operations of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, and bought shares of the property. In December 2015, Omni Hotels acquired the Omni Mount Washington Resort from CNL Financial Group, which it had operated under its brand since 2009.

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

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).

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.

Properties

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

United States

The four-star, 32-story Omni San Diego Hotel in San Diego, California
Omni Las Colinas Hotel in Las Colinas, Texas
Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGates in Orlando, Florida
Omni Amelia Island Resort
Omni Louisville Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky
State City Name Since
Arizona Scottsdale Omni Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Montelucia 2014
Tempe Omni Tempe Hotel at ASU 2023
Tucson Omni Tucson National Resort 1996
California Carlsbad Omni La Costa Resort & Spa 2013
Los Angeles Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza 2000
Palm Springs Omni Rancho Las Palmas Resort & Spa 2013
San Diego Omni San Diego Hotel 2004
San Francisco Omni San Francisco Hotel 2002
Colorado Broomfield Omni Interlocken Resort 1999
Connecticut New Haven Omni New Haven Hotel 1998
District of Columbia Washington, D.C. Omni Shoreham Hotel 1979
Florida Fernandina Beach Omni Amelia Island Resort 2010
The Villas of Amelia Island 2010
Orlando Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate 2004
Georgia Atlanta Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN Center 1975
Cumberland, Georgia Omni Hotel at The Battery Atlanta 2018
Illinois Chicago Omni Chicago Hotel 1993
Indiana Indianapolis Omni Severin Hotel 1989
Kentucky Louisville Omni Louisville Hotel 2018
Louisiana New Orleans Omni Riverfront Hotel 1996
Omni Royal Orleans 1981
Massachusetts Boston Omni Parker House 1968
Omni Boston Hotel at the Seaport 2021
Minnesota Eagan Omni Viking Lakes Hotel 2020
New Hampshire Bretton Woods Omni Bretton Arms at Mount Washington 2009
Omni Mount Washington Resort 2009
New York New York City Omni Berkshire Place 1977
North Carolina Asheville The Omni Grove Park Inn 2013
Charlotte Omni Charlotte Hotel 1998
Oklahoma Oklahoma City Omni Oklahoma City Hotel 2021
Pennsylvania Bedford Omni Bedford Springs Resort 2009
Pittsburgh Omni William Penn Hotel 2001
Rhode Island Providence Omni Providence Hotel 2013
South Carolina Hilton Head Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort 2012
Tennessee Nashville Omni Nashville Hotel 2013
Texas Austin Omni Austin Hotel Downtown 1992
Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa 2013
Corpus Christi Omni Corpus Christi 1996
Dallas Omni Dallas Hotel 2011
Omni Las Colinas Hotel 1992
Fort Worth Omni Fort Worth Hotel 2009
Frisco Omni Frisco Hotel 2017
Omni PGA Frisco Resort 2023
Houston Omni Houston Hotel 1991
San Antonio Omni La Mansion del Rio 2006
Mokara Hotel & Spa 2010
Virginia Charlottesville Omni Charlottesville Hotel 1985
Hot Springs The Omni Homestead Resort 2013
Richmond Omni Richmond Hotel 1987

International

Country City Name Since
Canada Montreal, Quebec Hotel Omni Mont-Royal 1999
Toronto, Ontario The Omni King Edward Hotel 2013

See also


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