Overview

We have more than a half-century of innovation and visionary hospitality leadership based on caring for guests and colleagues alike. Hyatt was founded by Jay Pritzker in 1957 when he purchased the Hyatt House Motel adjacent to the Los Angeles International Airport. Over the following decade, Jay Pritzker and his brother, Donald Pritzker, working together with other Pritzker family business interests, grew the company into a North American management and hotel ownership company, which became a public company in 1962. In 1968, Hyatt International was formed and subsequently became a separate public company. Hyatt Corporation and Hyatt International Corporation were taken private by the Pritzker family business interests in 1979 and 1982, respectively. On December 31, 2004, substantially all of the hospitality assets owned by Pritzker family business interests, including Hyatt Corporation and Hyatt International Corporation, were consolidated under a single entity, now Hyatt Hotels Corporation. On November 2, Hyatt announced the acquisition of Apple Leisure Group (ALG), a leading luxury resort-management services, travel, and hospitality group with a unique collection of resort brands with the AMR™ Collection, which consists of more than 100 hotels and resorts across 10 countries.