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Top 25 Hotel franchises based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 296 hotel franchises headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 265,227 professional contacts across them, including 44,833 with verified work emails. Houston is the largest hub.
This list covers hotel franchises headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest hotel franchises based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 57,308 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Marriott International, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 56,664 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hilton (NYSE: HLT) is a leading global hospitality company with a portfolio of 27 world-class brands comprising more than 9,100 properties and over 1.3 million rooms, in 143…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 16,921 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Part of IHG Hotels & Resorts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 13,312 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Best Western Hotels & Resorts headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, is a privately held hotel company within the BWH℠ Hotels global enterprise.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 12,745 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Hyatt Regency hotels, where connections flow seamlessly whether you’re traveling for business or leisure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 11,035 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DoubleTree by Hilton hotels are distinctively designed properties that provide true comfort to today’s business and leisure travelers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 7,949 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are Wyndham Hotels & Resorts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 6,197 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hooters operates over 400 Hooters restaurants in 42 states and 27 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 5,576 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “To contact our Customer Support Team about an upcoming or past stay, please visit: For Franchise Opportunities, please visit…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 5,191 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Choice Hotels International, Inc.(NYSE: CHH) is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 4,786 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Aimbridge, hospitality is at the heart of everything we do.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 4,762 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Embassy Suites by Hilton, we anticipate travelers’ needs and deliver what matters most.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 3,808 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Loews Hotels & Co was founded in 1960 and continues to own and operate hotels and resorts in the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 2,914 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sonesta is now the 8th largest hotel company in the US, with 13 brands that consist of 1100 hotels, 100K+ rooms across three continents and include The Royal Sonesta, The James…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 2,397 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1973, Drury Hotels Company, LLC, is a Missouri-based family-owned and operated hospitality company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,332 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Greg Flynn in Flynn Group has grown from a small Applebee's operator and developer in Washington State into the world's largest franchise operator and one of the 20…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,265 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 550 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Americas Best Value Inn is the fastest-growing hotel chain in the country, increasing from two properties to over locations and guestrooms throughout North America in just 13…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 433 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Baywood Hotels, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Red Lion Hotels Corporation is an innovative hotel company doing business as RLH Corporation and focuses on the franchising, management and ownership of upscale, midscale and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 392 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since his first hotel acquisition in 1982, Gary Tharaldson has owned over 350 hotel properties throughout the United States.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 391 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to our Restaurant Family.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 374 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sparked by the vision of one entrepreneur opening a single smoothie and juice bar over two decades ago, to today - Kahala Brands is one of the fastest-growing franchising…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 373 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BWH Hotels is a leading, global hospitality enterprise comprised of three hotel companies, including WorldHotels™, Best Western® Hotels & Resorts and SureStay® Hotels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 360 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Preferred Hotels & Resorts is the world’s largest independent hotel brand, representing 600 distinctive hotels, resorts, residences, and unique hotel groups across 80 countries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: hotel franchises. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names hotel franchises.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of hotel franchises, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name hotel franchises. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Hotel franchises based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 296 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among hotel franchises, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “hotel franchises”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names hotel franchises), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among hotel franchises, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 44,833 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names hotel franchises, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many hotel franchises are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 296 hotel franchises headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Marriott International, headquartered in Bethesda, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most hotel franchises?
Houston leads with 9 headquartered companies, followed by Atlanta (8) and Dallas (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 44,833 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 296 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.