What is Scandic Hotels?
{{orphan|date=May 2023}} '''Scandic Hotels''' is a company that owns and manages [[Hotel|hotels]]. It is based in [[Stockholm]], Sweden, and mostly operates in countries like Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark. They also have hotels in Germany and Poland. As of the end of 2018, the company had 11,560 employees and ran 283 hotels with 51,693 rooms for guests. They have been committed to being [[environmentally friendly]] since 1994. == History == The first hotel that started the Scandic chain was called Esso Motor Hotel. It opened in 1963 in [[Laxå]], Sweden, and was popular because people were traveling more by car. The chain grew to 59 hotels in Europe by 1972. Esso then sold the hotels outside of Scandinavia, and the remaining 32 hotels, including five in Norway and Denmark, became the biggest hotel chain in Sweden in 1973. In 1983, a Swedish group led by Ratos bought the company and named it Scandic Hotels. Ratos became the sole owner in 1985. In 1986, they opened their first hotel outside Scandinavia in Germany. During the Gulf Crisis in 1990/91, the business was affected, and new management took over in 1992. In 1996, they bought Reso Hotels and became a publicly traded company. They expanded into Finland and Estonia in the following years. In 2001, Scandic Hotels was bought by the Hilton Group, which is based in London. Then, in 2007, a Swedish company called EQT purchased the hotel chain for 833 million euros.<ref>Scandic Hotels Corporate Information, http://www.scandichotels.com/settings/Side-foot/About-us-Container/Corporate-information/History/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331184654/http://www.scandichotels.com/settings/Side-foot/About-us-Container/Corporate-information/History/ |date=2012-03-31 }}. Accessed 2012-12-06.</ref> In July 2013, Scandic Hotels teamed up with Swiss Hospitality to improve its digital systems.<ref>{{cite web|date=11 July 2013|title=For Scandic Hotels, Swisscom Hospitality implements next generation HSIA to allow guests a Click-to-Connect experience|ur