Best Western Hotels & Resorts

Best Western Hotels & Resorts is a global hospitality brand founded in 1946 and headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. It operates within BWH Hotels, a hotel brand network that includes Best Western Hotels & Resorts, WorldHotels, and SureStay. The group’s model relies heavily on independently owned and operated hotels, making sustainability governance dependent on brand standards, hotel-owner engagement, vendor partnerships and property-level environmental practices. Its sustainability relevance is concentrated in hotel energy use, water, waste, laundry, amenities, single-use plastics, FF&E, construction, local sourcing, EV charging and certification pathways such as Green Key and REST.