Company that owns President Trump’s Vancouver hotel files for bankruptcy

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The company that owns the Trump International Hotel in Vancouver, Canada, has filed for bankruptcy, according to Canadian records — raising questions about the future of one of President Trump’s newest hotels, just three years after it opened.

Trump does not own the Vancouver hotel; the building’s owner pays Trump’s company to operate the hotel and to license the Trump name.

The Trump Vancouver hotel has already been closed for four months because of the coronavirus pandemic. By Friday — a day after the bankruptcy filing — the hotel’s website was taken down, its name was missing from Trump Hotels’ corporate website, and the Vancouver hotel’s accounts were deleted from Twitter and Facebook. Continue reading.