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

Type	Private
Industry	Lodging
Founded	1974
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Area served	Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the Netherlands
Key people	Olav Thon, CEO
Website	Thonhotels.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]

Gallery

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  Thon Hotel Vika Atrium at Vika
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  Thon Hotel Opera in Oslo
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  Thon Hotel Kristiansund at Innlandet
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  Thon Hotel Høyers in Skien
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  Thon Hotel in Bergen

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.

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