"Finest Western International, Inc. has the Best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it accredits to over 4,500 resorts worldwide. [2] The franchise, with its home office in Phoenix az, Arizona, [3] consists of more than 2,000 hotels in The United States and Canada. [4] The brand was founded by M.K. Guertin in 1946. As of May 2019, David Kong is the president and CEO of Best Western and also Dorothy Dowling is the chief marketing police officer.

In 1964, Canadian resort proprietors signed up with the system. Finest Western after that increased to Mexico, Australia, as well as New Zealand in 1976.

In 2002, Finest Western International released Finest Western Premier in Europe and also Asia. (The other resorts in the chain were called Best Western.) In 2011, the chain's branding system-wide transformed to a three-tiered system: Best Western, Best Western And Also, as well as Ideal Western Premier."