History of Golden Tulip

At present Golden Tulip has over 230 hotels around the world and possesses almost 50 years of hospitality experience.

1962 Golden Tulip Hotels is founded in the Netherlands when six independent hotels decided to merge with each other.

1975 Initiation of Golden Tulip Hotels Worldwide from the joint venture between Golden Tulip Hotels and KLM-Royal Dutch Airlines. The group expands its hotel management business and through the KLM network creates a group of licensed hotels in KLM destinations.

1986 Consolidation of the licensing and hotel management businesses into one company: Golden Tulip International.

1996 Utell International is assigned the operation of the hotel licensing business of Golden Tulip and Tulip Inn, under the name Golden Tulip Worldwide.

2001 NH Hotels reunites Golden Tulip Worldwide (franchise portfolio) with the recently acquired Golden Tulip International hotels (management portfolio).

2002 Just in time to celebrate its 40th anniversary, Golden Tulip Worldwide demerges from NH Hotels through a management buyout. Starting from that time Golden Tulip Hospitality Group expended its hotel chain worldwide. At the middle of 2008, the company portfolio comprised 780 hotels in 50 countries.

2009 Golden Tulip enters the Russian Market by signing Development and Representative Agreement with IFK Hotel Management.

2009 Louvre Hotels joined forces with the Golden Tulip Hospitality Group, when Starwood Capital Group took over the latter. This move propelled Louvre Hotels Group (Louvre Hotels & Golden Tulip) in the top 10 of the worldwide hospitality industry.