Summit Hotels and Resorts is a Filipino brand of hotels owned and operated by Robinsons Land Corporation, the real estate arm of JG Summit Holdings established by Filipino-Chinese entrepreneur John Gokongwei Jr. It began operating in 2009 with the opening of its first hotel, Summit Ridge Tagaytay in Tagaytay, Cavite. As of 2020, the company has six hotels, all located in the Philippines.
History
Robinsons Hotels and Resorts, is the largest hotel group in Philippines with 31 operating hotels and is the hospitality arm of RLC. Robinsons Land Corporation (RHR), the real estate arm of JG Summit Holdings, a business conglomerate established by Filipino-Chinese entrepreneur John Gokongwei Jr., first entered the hospitality industry in 2004 with the establishment of Robinsons Hotels and Resorts (RHR), its hospitality division. The company opened several luxury hotels in the country in partnership with various foreign hospitality brands, such as the Crowne Plaza Galleria and Holiday Inn Galleria, Dusit Thani Mactan Cebu, and The Westin Sonata Place Ortigas. As tourism in the Philippines continued to grow due to the increasing number of middle class travelers, RLC decided to tap into this hospitality market with the establishment of Summit Hotels and Resorts, its midscale hotel brand, and Go Hotels, its budget hotel brand, in 2009. That year, Summit Hotels and Resorts opened its first hotel in Tagaytay, Cavite, the 108-room Summit Ridge Tagaytay.[1]