Pullman Hotels and Resorts
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| Industry | Luxury hotels |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Paris, France |
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Number of locations
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117 |
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Area served
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Global |
| Parent | AccorHotels |
| Website | www |
Pullman Hotels and Resorts is an upscale international hotel brand owned by AccorHotels. Pullman has over 117 hotels and resorts in 33 countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle-East, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
The name Pullman was indirectly inspired by George Pullman, founder of the Pullman Company, a prosperous 19th-century, Chicago-based railroad manufacturer. The Pullman Company was famous for launching the first sleeping trains in the United States and developing upscale services for railroad travelers. Belgian Georges Nagelmackers traveled to the United States in 1867-1868 and came back with the plan to build the equivalent of the Pullman Company in Europe, the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL).
The fast-growing railroad networks led the rail industry to invest in the construction and management of hotels alongside railroad tracks. In 1894, the CIWL created the Compagnie Internationale des Grands Hotels to manage its growing collection of hotels worldwide, which included the Hôtel Terminus in Bordeaux and Marseille, the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul, the Hôtel de la Plage in Ostend, and the Grand Hôtel des Wagons-Lits in Beijing. 30 years later, the CIWL introduced the Pullman wagons in Europe which were designed for upscale leisure traveling. The Pullman brand became so popular that CIWL’s top hotels were turned into Pullman Hotels.
In June 1990, the AccorHotels group bought a minority stake in CWL. After fully acquiring CIWL in 1991, AccorHotels turned all Pullman Hotels into Sofitel Hotels in 1993, thus taking the Pullman brand off the market.
In 2007, AccorHotels revived the upscale Pullman hotel brand to cater to business travelers.
The 24-storey Pullman Dubai Mall of the Emirates (MoE) Hotel, the first of Pullman’s properties in the Middle East, opened in 2010. Its fourth property in the region, the Pullman Dubai Jumeirah Lakes Towers, opened in 2015. In 2012, Pullman Hotels announced 12 openings in Indonesia within 5 years, opened its first property in the UK (the Pullman London St Pancras) and in Vietnam, and China became its biggest market. By 2013, Pullman had opened 79 properties, half of those located in the Asia-Pacific region.
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