Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels

The Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hôtels (CIGH) was founded on 11 April 1894 as a subsidiary of the railway company Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). This hotel chain was established to provide the customers of CIWL with high quality accommodation before or after their train journey.

History

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Georges Nagelmackers created the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels to develop and operate luxury hotels throughout its trains' routes.[1] Three hotels already operated by CIWL before 1894 were integrated in the hotel chain.

The CIGH operated most of King Ismail's palaces in Egypt before his abdication in 1879. It then remodeled the Gezirah Palace and opened it in 1894.[2] The CIGH's instant expansion throughout Europe made it the first international hotel chain.[3]

The CIGH had operated successfully for twenty years when World War I heavily affected the hotel business. CIGH had to sell or close many hotels and at the end of World War I only four hotels were operated by CIGH. After World War I the CIGH wasn't regarded as a core business and it wasn't until after World War II that the hotel business was revived.

Properties

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Details and changes are in the article regarding the hotel.

Hotel Place Country Management by CIGH
Avenida Palace Lisbon   Portugal 1891
Le Bosphorus Summer Palace Therapia   Turkey 1894
Buffet de Lyon Lyon   France 1900
Buffet Terminus Oran   Algeria 1914
Chateau Royal d'Ardenne Dinant   Belgium 1900
Elysée Palace Paris   France 1896
Gezirah Palace Cairo   Egypt 1894
Grand Hotel des Bains Cherbourg   France 1901
Grand Hotel International Brindisi   Italy 1893
Grand Hotel des Wagons-Lits Beijing   China 1904
Hotels et Bains de Hongrie Csorba   Hungary 1903
Maloja Palace Maloja   Switzerland 1895
Pavillon de Bellevue Meudon   France 1899
Pera Palace Constantinople   Turkey 1894
Hôtel de la Plage Ostend   Belgium 1895
Quarnero Abbazia   Austria 1898
Riviera Palace Nice   France 1893
Riviera Palace Monte Carlo (Beausoleil, Alpes-Maritimes)   Monaco 1899
Hôtel Royal Palace Ostend   Belgium 1899
Shepheard's Hotel Cairo   Egypt 1897
Hotel Terminus Bordeaux   France 1897
Hotel Terminus et Buffet Marseille   France 1900
Hotel Terminus Maritime Ostend   Belgium 1913
Tunisia Palace Tunis   Tunisia 1902
Victoria Hotel Ismailia   Egypt 1898

See also

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References

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  • A. Mühl, 125 Jahre/Ans/Years CIWL, Freiburg 1998
  1. ^ Mark Tungate (2017). The Escape Industry: How Iconic and Innovative Brands Built the Travel Business. Kogan Page Publishers. ISBN 9780749473518.
  2. ^ "Panorama of the past". Grandhotelsegypt.com. 20 March 2014. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  3. ^ Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle (13 August 2014). "The Luxurious Orient Express Train Rolls Into Paris In A One-Of-A-Kind Exhibition". Forbes.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017.