Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group hopes a little style can help it stand out in the crowded leisure industry. The company targets business and leisure travelers at its nearly 40 boutique hotels in the US and Canada. Unlike most chains, Kimpton hotels are modeled in different styles, creating a unique environment for travelers in mostly smaller, European-style accommodations, some in renovated historic buildings.
Upscale destination restaurants are located next to most hotels. Bill Kimpton founded the company's first hotel, the Bedford (in San Francisco) in 1981. The expanding chain has since reached northward to the Pacific Northwest and eastward as far as Boston.
The company's environmental program is called Earth care. Every hotel adopts standard environmentally friendly products and practices, such as eco-friendly cleaning supplies and recycling.[4]
LGBT
Every year, the company sponsors a Red Ribbon Campaign generating awareness and funds for local HIV service agencies. In addition, local hotels make donations to LGBT charities and host events for local community groups. Kimpton formed K-GLEN, the Kimpton Gay and Lesbian Employee Network, to advise the company on personnel and community outreach concerns. The committee meets quarterly and has representation from every region of the country. Kimpton Hotels was included as one of the ten best companies for gay and lesbian employees by The Advocate. Kimpton has received a 100% rating on the Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign every year since 2005.
Hotels brands are
1-Hotel Monaco
There are seven Hotel Monaco locations:
• Chicago, Illinois
• Denver, Colorado
• Salt Lake City, Utah
• San Francisco, California
• Seattle, Washington
• Hotel Monaco Washington
• Portland, Oregon
• Alexandria, Virginia
An eighth location is planned for Baltimore, Maryland, to be opened in 2009.
2-Hotel Palomar
There are four Hotel Palomar locations:
• San Francisco, California
• Hotel Palomar Washington
• Dallas, Texas
• Rosslyn, Virginia
Future Hotel Palomars are planned for Los Angeles, California, Nashville, Tennessee, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The very well known hotels of kimpton are:
Hotel Monaco Denver
A sophisticated, high-style luxury hotel located in the historic 1917 Railway Exchange Building and the 1937 Art Moderne Title Building, the boutique Hotel Monaco Denver is within walking distance of Larimer Square, downtown Denver, and the 16th Street Mall. With rich interiors and custom-designed furnishings, guests enjoy a comfortable, residential feeling. Offering personalized service, the boutique Hotel Monaco Denver caters to the distinguishing guest accustomed to luxury accommodations, for business or leisure travel.
Hotel Palomar, a San Francisco hotel just one block from Union Square and Moscone Center. The Hotel Palomar, a best of Kimpton Hotels, is a sophisticated urban sanctuary in the heart of downtown San Francisco. Our four star, four diamond luxury hotels offers the style of a boutique hotel in quiet seclusion, five floors above the traffic of nearby bustling Union Square.
Centrally located in San Francisco's SOMA district at the intersection of Fourth and Market Streets, our hotel is within walking distance of the Moscone Convention Center, Chinatown, the Financial District and Union Square.
Enter the Hotel Monaco Portland, formerly the Fifth Avenue Suites Hotel, and be welcomed as a longtime friend at our luxury hotel. In our downtown Portland, Oregon hotel, we invite you to paint a picture of your perfect hotel experience and let us make it into a grand masterpiece. Recognized by Travel + Leisure as one of the Top 500 Hotels in the World, and a long-time patron of the arts, the Hotel Monaco Portland supports the local art community by filling our historic, early 20th century building with original fine art created by Pacific Northwest artists. Built in 1912, our downtown luxury hotel is a living gallery, both inside and out.
