"Best Western International, Inc. owns the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it accredits to over 4,500 hotels worldwide. [2] The franchise, with its home office in Phoenix az, Arizona, [3] consists of more than 2,000 resorts in The United States and Canada. [4] The brand was founded by M.K. Guertin in 1946. Since May 2019, David Kong is the head of state and also Chief Executive Officer of Best Western as well as Dorothy Dowling is the principal marketing officer.

In 1964, Canadian resort proprietors signed up with the system. Best Western then increased to Mexico, Australia, and New Zealand in 1976.

In 2002, Finest Western International introduced Ideal Western Premier in Europe and also Asia. (The other resorts in the chain were referred to as Best Western.) In 2011, the chain's branding system-wide altered to a three-tiered system: Ideal Western, Ideal Western Plus, and also Best Western Premier."