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.
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 during 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.
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References
Other sources
- The 53 places to Go in 2008
- Thon Hotels with stronger environmental profile
- Scandinavia: Accommodations Listings
- Olav Thon, The World's Richest People - Forbes
External links
- Official website
