Working At Best Western International

The business model of a membership association gives Best Western a unique competitive advantage. Unlike publically traded hotel companies, Best Western doesn’t have to please Wall Street by making decisions that can sometimes be at the expense of the hotel owners. Each Best Western member has a voice in the operation of the company, and our employees work to add value to their membership.

Here’s what you can expect as an employee:


Enjoy yourself

• Our Employee Activities Committee (EAC) sponsors exciting events – such as BBQs, holiday parties, craft fairs fundraisers, and more – throughout the year.
• Our beautiful workplace and courtyard looks like a hotel itself, and is located in one of the most gorgeous and livable cities in the world.
• Enjoy great employee discounts:  Suns tickets, AAA and health club memberships, child care, computers, cell phones and more.
• Hotel discounts for you, your family, and your friends.

Wellness support

• Gather wellness credits through wellness challenges and other wellness activities for cash awards. We make it easy and fun to get fit.
• Participate in our annual Wellness Fair, where an assortment of vendors offer a variety of services to help you stay well.
• The Wellness Committee and Best Western Cafés offer Healthy Rewards, a program that enables you to earn free lunches when you purchase healthy items offered in the Cafés.
• Through our Employee Assistance Program, we offer employees and their immediate families professional counseling to help resolve problems affecting their emotional health.
• Stay in tip-top condition with mobile, on-site health screenings.

Feel proud

• Best Western International Inc. is THE WORLD'S BIGGEST HOTEL FAMILYSM with more than 4,000 independently owned and operated hotels.
• Our employee engagement scores rank us as one of the highest in Arizona. .
• We're happy to be an employer of choice and proud that so many employees have chosen to stay at Best Western for 10, 20, even 30+ years.
• Best Western's corporate offices have made a concerted effort to reduce, reuse and recycle. In fact, our Beardsley Operations Center in Phoenix recently earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency prestigious Energy Star, the national symbol for protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency.

Speak your mind

• We value and support open communication.
• At any time, employees can submit a question, concern, idea, etc., to the companies “Listen Line” on the company intranet and get a prompt response.
• Employees are periodically invited to sit down with the CEO for lunch to share their feedback. Leadership wants to know your thoughts.

Help out

• We’re always coming up with fun and creative activities to help a cause, from selling candy at Valentine's Day to raising money for the Arizona Humane Society, to having a salsa cook-off to collect money for St. Mary’s Food Bank.
• Through our Best Western for a Better World program, our hotel owners, staff and customers donate time, money and talent to causes that benefit children and families.
• Best Western International’s Employee Activities Committee helps non-profit organizations in the Phoenix metropolitan area through fundraising events and donation drives.
• World Vision is Best Western's charity of choice. Our member hotels and staff sponsor children around the globe.
• We are the presenting sponsor of the New Orleans Hornets Bookmobile.
• We’re committed to doing our part to protect the environment. A task force has been charged with promoting green best practices to our employees, and implementing practical, environmentally-friendly solutions at our corporate facilities in Phoenix.