Hyatt

Hyatt Hotels
Type	Public (NYSE: H)
Industry	Hospitality
Founded	1957
Headquarters	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Key people	Thomas J. Pritzker; (Executive chairman); Mark S. Hoplamazian; (President and CEO)
Products	Hotels
Website	Hyatt Hotels

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For other uses, see Hyatt (disambiguation).

"Park Hyatt" redirects here. For the Park Hyatt on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, see Park Tower (Chicago).

Hyatt Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H), is an international operator of hotels.

Hyatt Center (completed in 2005 & located in downtown Chicago at 71 South Wacker Drive) is the headquarters for Hyatt corporation. Prior to this, the corporate headquarters was around the corner at 200 West Madison Street.

[edit] History

Hyatt Hotels Corporation was born upon purchase of the Hyatt House, at Los Angeles International Airport on September 27, 1957. The original owners were entrepreneurs, Hyatt von Dehn and Jack D. Crouch. Von Dehn was eager to get out of the hotel business after a few years, so he sold his share in the hotel to Jay Pritzker. Jay's younger brother Donald, under Jack Crouch's mentorship, took over day-to-day operations of the company and acquired motels and hotels, building a brand that remains among the leading names in the hospitality industry.^{[citation needed]} Under Donald's leadership, Hyatt became the fastest growing hotel chain in the United States until his death in 1972.^[2]

Hyatt became famous after the chain opened the world's first atrium hotel in 1967, the Hyatt Regency Atlanta,^[3] a decade after opening its first hotel.

In 1969, Donald opened Hyatt's first overseas hotel, the Hyatt Regency Hong Kong (which closed at the end of 2005 and was demolished, the new one will open in 2009[1]). In 1980, the Grand Hyatt and Park Hyatt brands were introduced. Hyatt has become known for its resorts after the opening of Hyatt Regency Maui^[4] in 1980. Today Hyatt has over 430 hotels worldwide.^[5]

In 1972, Hyatt formed Elsinore Corporation, a subsidiary to operate the Four Queens Hotel and Casino and the Hyatt Lake Tahoe. After Hyatt became a private company in 1979, Elsinore was spun off into a public company. The company opened the Playboy Hotel and Casino as a joint venture with Playboy Enterprises.^[6]^[7]

In December 2004, Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced it would acquire AmeriSuites, an upscale chain of all suite business class hotels from affiliates of the Blackstone Group, a New York based private equity investment firm. Blackstone had inherited AmeriSuites from its 2004 acquisition of Prime Hospitality. The AmeriSuites chain is being rebranded and converted to a new concept called Hyatt Place. With Hyatt Place, Hyatt Hotels Corporation will better compete with the limited service products Courtyard by Marriott and Hilton Garden Inn offered by industry leaders Marriott International and Hilton Hotels Corp.

In December 2005, Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced a second limited service acquisition, Summerfield Suites. Again the seller was the Blackstone Group. Blackstone had inherited Summerfield Suites from its purchase of Wyndham International. Summerfield Suites will be rebranded as Hyatt Summerfield Suites and positioned to compete in the upscale extended stay market against brands such as Residence Inn, Homewood Suites and Staybridge Suites.

On August 6, 2009, it was reported that Hyatt Hotels Corporation filed plans to raise up to $1.15 billion in an initial share sale. Hyatt plans to list the shares on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol H. According to the filing, Mark S. Hoplamazian will serve as CEO and Thomas Pritzker will serve as Executive Chairman.^[8] The public offering is a result of the breakup of the Pritzker family empire. Accused of looting family trusts, Thomas and cousins Penny and Nicholas were forced to wrest control of the family businesses when she and other family members were sued by cousin Liesel Pritzker claiming fraud and seeking damages in excess of $6 billion ^[9].

On August 31, 2009 three Hyatt hotels in Boston laid off their entire housekeeping staffs, outsourcing the work to a Georgia company for wages that were approximately half of those of the fired workers, creating strong public backlash.^[10] Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick threatened a boycott of the hotels by state employees traveling on official business.^[11]^[12] The housekeepers, who were fired without previous notice although some of them had worked for the Hyatt for over 20 years, became collectively known as the Hyatt 100. In December, 2009, Hyatt was named the "Massachusetts Scrooge of the Year" by Jobs with Justice.

As of June 30, 2010, Hyatt Hotels Corporation's worldwide portfolio consisted of 445 properties.^[13]

[edit] Brands

Hyatt Hotels Corporation operates several chains. The Hyatt Regency® brand is the oldest brand in the company, with the Grand Hyatt® and Park Hyatt® brands being introduced in 1980.^{[citation needed]} Of these properties, some are styled as "resort" properties, and may feature spas or other recreational facilities.^{[citation needed]}

Other brands include the Hyatt Place®, designed as a limited service offering targeted to the business traveler. An extended stay chain, Summerfield Suites®, was acquired by Hyatt in 2005, and features 34 locations in the United States. Hyatt also launched a new brand, Andaz®, in April 2007.^[14] The first hotel to bear this brand was The Great Eastern Hotel in London, with additional properties now open in San Diego, West Hollywood, and New York City (Andaz Wall Street & Andaz Fifth Avenue). Hyatt recently announced a large expansion of the Andaz® brand, with properties expected to open in Austin, TX, Turks and Caicos, Amsterdam, China, and India.

In addition to hotels, Hyatt also operates an upscale timeshare program through Hyatt Vacation Ownership, Inc. The program is known as Hyatt Vacation Club®. It currently has over a dozen locations, some of which are located within or connected to Hyatt hotels. ^[15] Additionally, the group runs a chain of upscale retirement homes known as Classic Residence by Hyatt ^[16] and offers retail home décor and furnishings through Hyatt at Home, an online store featuring luxury products. ^[17]

Brands explained:

Park Hyatt® hotels are mid-sized properties located in many of the world’s premier destinations, providing discerning, affluent individual business and leisure guests with elegant and luxurious accommodations. Guests of Park Hyatt® receive highly attentive personal service in an intimate and refined environment.

Andaz® hotels are upscale boutique properties designed to reflect the unique cultural scene and spirit of the surrounding neighborhood, providing a vibrant yet relaxed atmosphere geared toward today’s individual business and leisure travelers. Guests of Andaz® receive friendly, yet uncomplicated service.

Grand Hyatt® hotels are large-scale, distinctive properties that provide sophisticated global business and leisure travelers with upscale accommodations in major gateway cities and resort destinations.

Hyatt Regency® hotels are full service properties with facilities tailored to serve the needs of conventions, business travelers and resort vacationers; they are conveniently located in urban, suburban, airport, convention and resort destinations around the world.

Hyatt® hotels are smaller-to-mid-sized properties located in various markets across the United States, serving individual business and leisure travelers.

Hyatt Resorts® are vacation destination properties, including beach, mountain, desert, golf and spa properties across the Park Hyatt®, Grand Hyatt® and Hyatt Regency® brands.

Hyatt Place® hotels are mid-sized properties designed for families and the multi-tasking business traveler; they are located in urban, airport and suburban areas.

Hyatt Summerfield Suites® are extended-stay, residential-style properties that aim to provide individual travelers with the feel of a modern condominium.

Hyatt Vacation Club® properties provide members with vacation ownership opportunities in regionally inspired, residential-style properties with the quality of the Hyatt brand.

[edit] Leadership

Mark S. Hoplamazian is the current President and CEO of Hyatt Hotels Corporation. He took over the position on November 28, 2006.

[edit] Notable properties

Atlanta: The Hyatt Regency Atlanta was built in 1967 and was the first contemporary atrium hotel in the world. The hotel is also notable for being the first Regency hotel in the Hyatt brand. The hotel was influential in helping Atlanta develop into the international destination that it is today, and to this day remains the only major downtown Atlanta hotel with a front drive on the famed Peachtree Street. Architect John Portman designed building was the original Hyatt Regency property, was the first hotel centered around an atrium

Bethesda: Located over a subway station and in the center of downtown.

Buenos Aires: Hyatt Hotels acquired the Duhau Palace, a Neoclassical former residence inspired in the Château du Marais, in 2002, and following the addition of a 13-story annex at the other end of the property, opened the Park Hyatt Buenos Aires in 2006.^[18]

Aruba: Hyatt Regency Aruba Resort and Casino features a multi-level pool, newly renovated rooms and suites, 7 restaurants, and one of the most popular casinos on the island, the Copa Cabana.

Cairo: Located on Al-Roda Island, the Grand Hyatt Egypt was built in 1998 with 41 floors and 714 rooms. The hotel includes a shopping mall and there is a rotating restaurant.

Cleveland: The Hyatt Regency Cleveland, is located in the 1890s built Cleveland, Ohio Arcade. The Cleveland Arcade was a shopping center, but between 1998-2002 was renovated as the Hyatt Regency Hotel. There is some retail on the two stories, and the rooms follow after that. In addition there is a five-star restaurant named 1890, a reference of the year the Cleveland Arcade opened.

Connecticut: The Hyatt Regency Greenwich, located in Old Greenwich, CT is on the site of the former world headquarters of Conde Nast Publishing and retains the original building's corner tower.

Dallas: The Hyatt Regency Dallas, along with the fifty-story Reunion Tower, were featured prominently at the beginning of the opening credits of the television series Dallas.

Hollywood: The Continental Hyatt Hotel was in the movie Almost Famous starring Kate Hudson (2000), and its pool has featured in several films including This is Spinal Tap (1984), and the Park Hyatt Hotel in Century City was the scene of the famous "6th floor into swimming pool" scene in the 1989 movie Lethal Weapon 2 starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover.

Kansas City, Missouri: Initially named the Hyatt Regency Kansas City, the atrium walkways collapsed in 1981 since they did not meet engineering code. The hotel was since renovated and renamed Hyatt Regency Crown Center and remains in operation,

Los Angeles: Century Plaza Hotel, one of the 11 endangered historic sites (see Wikipedia article)

New Jersey: The Jersey City Hyatt Regency is also used as headquarters for the NJ Clean Energy Conference.^[19]

San Francisco: The Hyatt Regency San Francisco formerly provided a rooftop revolving restaurant called Equinox, offering 360-degree views of the city and the bay – the restaurant is now an elite club for certain hotel guests only and it no longer rotates. This hotel was sold for close to $200 million to Dune Capital Management and DiNapoli Capital Partners in January 2007 – roughly $250,000 for each of the hotel's 802 rooms.^[20] The property has been used several times as a filming location, featured most prominently in producer Irwin Allen's 1974 disaster film The Towering Inferno, the 1977 Mel Brooks comedy High Anxiety, Don Siegel's spy thriller Telefon of the same year, and the 1979 sc-fi thriller Time After Time.

Shanghai: The Grand Hyatt Shanghai^[21] is located in the Jin Mao Tower (floors 53 to 87). It has a ballroom for 1200 people, and meeting rooms which seat 400 comfortably. The Park Hyatt occupying the 79th to 93rd floors of the Shanghai World Financial Center, is considered the highest hotel in the world. SWFC measures 492 meters and has 101 stories.

Tokyo: The Park Hyatt Tokyo was featured prominently in the movie Lost in Translation, and also in an episode of I Survived a Japanese Game Show where that episode's winning team stayed in the suite featured in that movie worth $12,000/night, plus a personal chef.

Trinidad & Tobago: The Trinidad Hyatt was used for the 2009 5th Summit of the Americas from April 17 to 19, 2009.

[edit] World events and Hyatt

Trinidad & Tobago – The Hyatt Regency Trinidad was used for the 2009 5th Summit of the Americas from April 17 to 19, 2009.

Australia – The 2006 G20 Meeting of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors was held at the Grand Hyatt in Melbourne between November 18 and November 19, 2006.

Israel – On November 17, 2001, Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi was assassinated in the Jerusalem Hyatt Regency on Mount Scopus.

Jordan – On November 9, 2005, the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Amman, Jordan was targeted by a series of coordinated terrorist attacks along with a Radisson SAS and a Days Inn hotel.

Philippines – The Hyatt Terraces Baguio in the northern city of Baguio collapsed after a July 16, 1990 earthquake.

United States

During Hurricane Katrina, the Hyatt Regency New Orleans received significant damage as almost all of its windows were blown out and the bottom floor was torn apart by flood damage. This hotel located in the Central Business District has not yet re-opened, but scheduled to in mid-2011.
The Hyatt Regency Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri was the site of one of the worst hotel disasters in US history. On July 17, 1981 two of the three skybridges that transversed the hotel's lobby collapsed during a tea dance. The walkways were packed with people when a structural failure occurred causing one bridge, which was hung from the bridge above it, to pull both bridges loose from the ceiling and collapse. 114 people were killed and over 200 were injured. The hotel was later renamed the Hyatt Regency Crown Center.

Main article: Hyatt Regency walkway collapse

During Hurricane Alicia in 1983, the Hyatt Regency Houston in Downtown Houston sustained damage where 74 windows were damaged; Alicia was a Category 3 storm.

[edit] Hyatt Gold Passport

Hyatt Gold Passport is Hyatt's hotel rewards or loyalty program. Membership is free and can be completed either online or with the assistance of a hotel representative. Points can be accumulated and used for redemption nights, upgrades or converted into airline miles with partnering airlines.

[edit] Membership levels

Gold
Platinum
Diamond

[edit] Gallery

The Hyatt Regency Trinidad is located in the International Finance Center of Port of Spain, Trinidad.	Looking up inside the 32-story atrium of the Shanghai Grand Hyatt, part of the Jin Mao Tower	Hyatt West Hollywood in West Hollywood, California	Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia
Hyatt Regency (center) in Săo Paulo, Brazil	Hyatt Regency in Delhi, India	A Hyatt Regency in Cologne, Germany. The KölnTriangle is in the background	A Hyatt Regency in Santa Clara, California, in the United States, Westin Hotel
Hyatt Regency at Orlando International Airport	Hotel Hyatt Regency Kiev in Kiev, Ukraine	Hyatt Regency in Cleveland, Ohio	The Park Hyatt of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Grand Hyatt Cairo, Egypt	Hyatt Regency Ekaterinburg, Russia	Lobby from Hyatt Hotel Santiago, Chile	Hyatt Hotel Muscat, Oman
Hyatt Hotel Denver	Hyatt Regency Houston	Hyatt Place Louisville, Kentucky	Hotel Hyatt Köln, Germany
Hyatt Hotel New Orleans Central Business District with broken windows 2 weeks after Hurricane Katrina	Hyatt Place Chantilly, Virginia	Park Hyatt Washington, D.C.	Hyatt emblem in the background
Hyatt Hotel Amman, Jordan