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.
History
The Thon Hotel chain was established in 1989. Thon Hotels is part of the
Olav Thon Group
Olaf or Olav (, , or British ; Old Norse: ''Áleifr'', ''Ólafr'', ''Óleifr'', ''Anleifr'') is a Scandinavian and German given name. It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as ''*Anu-laibaz'', from ''anu'' "ancestor, grand-father ...
(''Olav Thon Gruppen'') which in turn is owned by the Olav Thon Foundation (''Olav Thon Stiftelsen'').
Olav Thon
Olav Thon (born 29 June 1923) is a Norwegian real estate developer and listed in the ''Forbes'' list of billionaires as the 198th richest person in the world with a net worth of $6 billion as of March 2013. He is Norway's richest person a ...
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.
Gallery
File:Thon Hotel Vika Atrium.jpg, Thon Hotel Vika Atrium at Vika
Vika may refer to:
__NOTOC__ Persons
* often a short form of Victoria (and variants) in Eastern Europe
* Vika Lusibaea (born 1964), Solomon Islands politician
* Hilda Vīka (1897–1963), Latvian artist and writer
* Ludo Vika (born 1955), Dominica ...
File:Thon Hotel Opera Oslo.jpg, Thon Hotel Opera in Oslo
File:Thon Hotel Kristiansund.jpg, Thon Hotel Kristiansund at Innlandet
File:Høyers hotell - Skien.jpg, Thon Hotel Høyers in Skien
File:Bergen, Mariakirken - panoramio.jpg, Thon Hotel in Bergen
References
Other sources
The 53 places to Go in 2008Thon Hotels with stronger environmental profile
External links
*
{{Authority control
Hotel chains
Hotels in Norway
Companies based in Oslo
Hospitality companies of Norway
Norwegian brands