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History Hilton Hotels: A Contemporary ClassicHilton Hotels Corporation is recognized around the world as a preeminent lodging hospitality company, offering guests and customers the finest accommodations, services, amenities and value for business or leisure. While the Hilton brand has, for more than 80 years, been synonymous with excellence in the hospitality industry, our acquisition in 1999 of Promus Hotel Corporation expanded our family of brands to include such well-known and highly respected brand names as Hampton Inn®, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, and Homewood Suites by Hilton®. Through ownership of some of the most recognized hotels in the world and our newly enhanced brand portfolio, Hilton is now able to offer guests the widest possible variety of hotel experiences, including four-star city center hotels, convention properties, all-suite hotels, extended stay, mid-priced focused service, destination resorts, vacation ownership, airport hotels and conference centers. Today's Hilton can be viewed as a major industry competitor in a number of areas:
Owning hotels. Hilton owns such unique, irreplaceable hotel assets as New York's Waldorf=Astoria, The Hilton Hawaiian Village® on Waikiki Beach, Chicago's Palmer House Hilton and the Hilton San Francisco on Union Square. These large-scale properties occupy the best locations in the nation's best markets.Managing/franchising hotels. The company is a prominent franchisor of hotels across its entire brand family, with income from management or franchise fees accounting for some 30 percent of Hilton's total cash flow.Vacation ownership. Hilton Grand Vacations Club, the company's vacation ownership business, operates properties across the country including such desirable locales as Las Vegas, Orlando, New York, Miami and Honolulu.International. With the 2006 acquisition of Hilton International, Hilton Hotels Corporation became a global force with more than 2,800 hotels in more than 80 countries throughout the world.
The following pages outline how Hilton has become an industry success through a vision of aggressive expansion efforts and cutting-edge innovation.
Business Travel Programs Since 1919, Hilton Hotels has led the way with innovations for executives on the road. Recent innovations include:
Hilton Hotels designed a program of special services with the business traveler in mind. Towers Concierge Class offers separate check-in; complimentary Continental breakfast and evening hors d'oeuvres; and in-room fax machines.Our fully-staffed business centers help business travelers with many office tasks such as graphic presentations, faxing, copying and word processing.In September 1995, Hilton Hotels Corporation was the first hotel company to team up with American Express to offer a no-fee co-branded credit card that features what many frequent travelers value most. The Hilton Credit Card from American Express offers cardmembers one of the richest rewards structure of any leading travel rewards card program, no annual fee and a low introductory interest rate.