Journey's End Corporation

Westmont Hospitality Group is a company nominally based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada which owns and manages hotels. It was founded by the Mangalji family. It is one of the biggest hospitality management companies. It currently is managed by Majid Mangalji. The total revenue for this company is $700 million.

The company has strategic alliances with Intercontinental Hotels (as Holiday Inn), Choice Hotels (as Comfort Inn and Quality Inn), Hilton Hotels, Radisson Hotels, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and Starwood Hotels. It is the successor (through a 1999 corporate takeover) of the Journey's End Corporation, a Canadian hotel management and franchising company.

Westmont Hospitality Group in its present form was created through hostile corporate takeover of Unihost (formerly Journey's End) by W-Westmont in 1999.

Westmont Hospitality Group was initially established in Toronto, with the first of the Westmont-owned hotels opened in 1975. The first of the Journey's End Corporation properties was built (by the then-independent firm) in Belleville, Ontario in 1978.

At the time of the 1999 takeover, W-Westmont (run by Goldman Sachs's Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds and Westmont Hospitality Group) already owned 45 hotels across Canada, most of them franchises of US-based hotel chains. By the 1990s, Journey's End (renamed UniHost in 1997) had built 137 hotels; its properties would have been the largest group of Canadian hotels at that time.

The Journey's End/Unihost properties would therefore initially constitute the bulk of the combined firm.

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