Regent Hotels & Resorts


Regent Hotels & Resorts is a luxury hospitality brand, jointly owned by InterContinental Hotels Group and Formosa International Hotels Corporation since June 2018, with hotels and resorts in Asia and Europe. Since the formation of the joint venture, the brand logo and monogram have been refreshed and works have begun to reposition the brand at the top end of the luxury hotel segment.

History

The brand was started by hotelier Robert H. Burns as a joint venture with Japan's Tokyu Group in 1970. In 1986, EIE International acquired a 35% stake. When Burns decided to sell his remaining 65% stake in 1992, EIE exercised its right of first refusal to acquire the entire company, which was then promptly sold to the Four Seasons hotel chain. Hotels under development at the time of purchase in Bali, Milan, New York, and Istanbul were subsequently opened as Four Seasons.
In 1998, Carlson acquired the Regent name for new hotel developments and created a luxury hotel division while the Four Seasons continued managing existing and new Regent hotels.
In 2002, Carlson agreed with Rezidor SAS to develop the Regent hotel brand in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East.
In March 2006, Carlson renamed its Radisson Seven Seas Cruises to Regent Seven Seas Cruises and merged the cruise operation and Regent International Hotels under a common brand.
In 2008, Regent Seven Seas Cruises was sold to Apollo Management, an investment company. Carlson retained ownership of the master Regent brand, along with the operations of Regent Hotels & Resorts around the world.
In 2010, Carlson sold the Regent Hotel business to Formosa International Hotels, the largest listed hotel operator in Taiwan and owner of Grand Formosa Regent Taipei hotel in Taipei, Taiwan, which was opened by Regent's founders in 1990 as The Regent Taipei.
Co-founder Robert Burns was appointed Honorary Chairman and Ralf Ohletz president. Ohletz had worked with another Regent co-founder, Adrian Zecha, for 25 years.
In March 2018, the InterContinental Hotel Group announced that it had agreed to buy a 51% majority stake in Regent Hotels for $39 million and hopes to expand the brand's footprint to 40 hotels from the current portfolio of six hotels. This includes rebranding the iconic InterContinental Hong Kong, which initially opened as a Regent property in 1980, to a Regent property once again in 2022 following major renovations. New properties have since been signed in Kuala Lumpur, Chengdu and Shanghai, with IHG planning a careful rollout of the brand to ensure its exclusivity at the top-end of the hospitality market.

Current properties

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The following property developments were terminated before opening: