Belmond (company)

Belmond Ltd.
Formerly
 Orient-Express Hotels Ltd
Public
Traded as NYSE: BEL (Class A)
S&P 600 Component
Industry Hospitality
Headquarters London, United Kingdom[1]
Key people
  • Roeland Vos, CEO
Services Hotels, trains, cruises, restaurants
Revenue Decrease US$ 1.5 million (2018)[2]
Website Belmond.com

Belmond Ltd. is a hotel and leisure company that operates luxury hotels, train services and river cruises around the world.[3] In 2015, the company had 35 deluxe hotels, 7 tourist trains, 3 river cruises and restaurants in 22 countries.

The company was formerly known as Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.[4] On 10 March 2014, the global collection of businesses was renamed Belmond,[5][6][7][8][9] and on 1 July 2014, the parent company itself was renamed Belmond Ltd.[10]

Background

The company was founded in 1976 with the acquisition of Hotel Cipriani in Venice. The company derived its original name from the Orient Express train. It operates the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express, which provides overnight train service between London and Venice.[1] It also operates other trains, including the Belmond Royal Scotsman train service, and has a 50 percent interest in PeruRail.

Among the European hotels it owns is Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice and Belmond Reid's Palace in Madeira. The company also owns and operates the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, and the Belmond Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro. It operates two river cruisers on the Irrawaddy River in Central Burma (Myanmar), and Belmond Afloat in France (five canal and river barges).

Business activities

The properties, trains and other services that are owned or managed by Belmond Ltd. include the following.

Hotels

Europe

North America

South America

Asia

Africa

Trains

Sleeper trains

Day trains

Riverboats

Restaurants

References

  1. 1 2 Business Wire (1 February 2013). "Company Profile for Belmond Ltd". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2013-03-18.
  2. ↑ "2018 Belmond Ltd. Annual Report" (PDF). Investor.belmond.com. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Belmond Ltd. - SEC". Sec.gov. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  4. ↑ "Belmond Ltd. Company Information". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2017-08-03.
  5. ↑ "Interview: Behind Belmond's Rebrand of Iconic Orient-Express Name". Skift.com. 17 March 2014. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  6. ↑ Vora, Shivani. "Orient-Express Hotels Gets a New Name". Intransit.blogs.nytimes.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  7. ↑ "Log In". Wsj.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  8. ↑ "Bloomberg". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Archived 28 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ Resource, Hotel News. "Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. Changes Corporate Name to Belmond Ltd". Hotelnewsresource.com. Retrieved 14 November 2017.
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