includes a list of references but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations . please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations . august 2008 learn how and when to remove this template message wyndham hotels & resorts type private subsidiary of wyndham worldwide industry hotel founded dallas texas u.s. 1981 founder trammell crow headquarters parsippany new jersey key people kevin speidel president parent wyndham worldwide website http www.wyndham.com main.wnt wyndham hotels and resorts is a hotel and resort chain based in the united states . it has locations in canada mexico colombia ecuador 1 turkey 2 germany 3 the uk and the caribbean . the company sold many of its hotels in the early 2000s . history edit wyndham hotel corporation was founded in 1981 in dallas texas by trammell crow the president of trammel crow company tcc . the company appears to have been named after a friend of crow s a woman named wyndham robertson who wrote a profile of him for fortune magazine . as the company grew it eventually merged with a hotel reit called patriot american hospitality pah . patriot american organized the combined company as a paired share reit in which patriot owned the real estate assets and leased the hotels to wyndham to run . the firm grew rapidly in the late 1990s acquiring multiple portfolios of hotels and renaming them wyndhams . in 1998 in an effort to build an upscale limited service brand the company acquired the summerfield hotel corporation and renamed it summerfield suites by wyndham . wyndham garden hotels are smaller properties usually full service that are located in suburban or airport locations . later that year the combined company introduced a short lived luxury brand grand bay hotels & resorts which would include 11 hotels that the company had acquired over the past few years and would turn patriot into a multi brand hotel operating and ownership organization . the company also included several european properties including the great eastern hotel in the city of london . wyndham hotel in guayaquil ecuador however the company s rapid growth drained cash and the firm was unable to continue to grow on its own . in march 1999 the group agreed to a 1 billion restructuring when a consortium of private equity firms including thomas h. lee partners and apollo real estate advisors assumed control of the company . they renamed it wyndham international . the company s paired share status was dropped and wyndham international re emerged as a c corporation . from 1999 to 2004 the firm struggled to pay down debt and was forced to sell off many of the hotels it had acquired in the late 1990s often at a deep discount in an industry still suffering from the effects of the 9 11 terrorist attacks . the effort to expand the grand bay hotels & resorts brand was canceled and the brand s franchised limited service offerings summerfield suites and wyndham garden hotels continued to lose units as hotels converted out of the system . many of the summerfield suites hotels were sold to the intercontinental hotels group and were converted to staybridge suites hotels . in june 2005 wyndham international was acquired by affiliates of the blackstone group for 3.24 billion and taken private . in the subsequent months many of its hotels were sold to goldman sachs group and columbia sussex . blackstone rebranded most of the remaining assets as lxr luxury resorts and sold the wyndham and wyndham garden hotel brands to cendant . blackstone sold summerfield suites to hyatt hotels which renamed it hyatt house . on august 1 2006 all cendant hotel brands became part of wyndham worldwide . wyndham worldwide consists of the following brands of hotels baymont inn & suites days inn howard johnson s knights inn microtel ramada super 8 travelodge wyndham wyndham garden hotels hawthorn suites and wingate by wyndham . besides hotels the company also operates wyndham vacation resorts formerly fairfield resorts and worldmark by wyndham formerly trendwest time share resorts . in 2013 wyndham worldwide acquired shell vacations club for 102 million including 153 million of debt . 4 the federal trade commission ftc filed suit against wyndham in june 2012 following a security breach that led to the theft of payment card data for hundreds of thousands of wyndham customers . wyndham decided to fight the lawsuit in court unlike many companies which often try to settle ftc data security enforcement actions quickly . in april 2014 united states district court for the district of new jersey judge esther salas denied wyndham s motion to dismiss in a much anticipated decision to this case . 5 references edit spanish el universo . el nuevo hotel wyndham tiene financiado ya el 31 % de la obra . retrieved 30 june 2013 . wyndham hotels in turkey . wyndham hotels and resorts llc . retrieved 2 august 2013 . wyndham hotels in germany . wyndham hotels and resorts llc . retrieved 2 august 2013 . wyndham buys shell vacations for 102m in cash . http www.businessweek.com . retrieved 2 september 2014 . external link in work help percival iv lynn c. ; poyner spruill llp 8 april 2014 . new jersey federal court rejects wyndham s challenge to federal trade commission s ftc data security enforcement authority . the national law review . retrieved 19 april 2014 . external links edit official website v t e wyndham worldwide wyndham hotel group baymont inn & suites days inn hawthorn suites howard johnson s knights inn microtel ramada super 8 motels travelodge wingate by wyndham wyndham hotels & resorts tryp by wyndham dolce hotels and resorts wyndham exchange & rentals cottages4you cuendet endless vacation rentals hoseasons james villa holidays landal greenparks northcourse novasol rci the registry collection the resort company resortquest wyndham vacation ownership worldmark by wyndham wyndham vacation resorts v t e hotel chains accor adagio formule 1 f1 formula 1 ibis budget styles mama shelter 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