Westin Hotels & Resorts are an upscale hotel chain owned by <a href="https://sponsorpitch.com/sponsors/starwood-hotels-and-resorts">Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide</a>. As of 2011, Westin operated over 160 hotels in 37 countries. In 1930, hotel owners Severt W. Thurston and Frank Dupar, both of Yakima, Washington USA, formed a partnership in order to manage their hotels more efficiently. Together with Peter and Adolph Schmidt they formed Western Hotels, with seventeen properties, all but one in the state of Washington.
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