"Best Western International, Inc. owns the very best Western Hotels & Resorts brand, which it accredits to over 4,500 hotels worldwide. [2] The franchise, with its home office in Phoenix metro, Arizona, [3] consists of greater than 2,000 resorts in North America. [4] The brand name was founded by M.K. Guertin in 1946. As of May 2019, David Kong is the head of state as well as CEO of Best Western and Dorothy Dowling is the principal advertising officer.

In 1964, Canadian hotel proprietors joined the system. Ideal Western then broadened to Mexico, Australia, as well as New Zealand in 1976.

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