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Hilton Hotels & Resorts<ref>Refreshed Hilton Hotels & Resorts Brand Identity Emphasizes Leisure Portfolio.</ref> (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton Worldwide.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton. As of December 30, 2019, 584 Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties with 216,379 rooms in 94 countries and territories are located across six continents.<ref name="10K" /><ref name="USNews">Template:Cite news</ref> This includes 61 properties that are owned or leased with 219,264 rooms, 272 that are managed with 119,612 rooms, and 251 that are franchised with 77,451 rooms.<ref name="10K" /> In 2020, Fortune magazine ranked Hilton Hotels & Resorts at number one on their Fortune List of the Top 100 Companies to Work For in 2020 based on an employee survey of satisfaction.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Overview

Conrad Hilton founded the Hilton hotel chain in 1919, when he bought his first property, the Mobley Hotel, in Cisco, Texas.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The first hotel to feature the Hilton brand was the Dallas Hilton. In late 2010, Hilton announced a name change of the Hilton Hotels brand to Hilton Hotels & Resorts along with a new logo design, as part of a rebranding effort for the flagship brand.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Today, Hilton Hotels & Resorts is Hilton's flagship brand and one of the largest hotel brands in the world.<ref name="Rooney11">Template:Cite news</ref> The brand is targeted at both business and leisure travelers with locations in major city centers, near airports, convention centers, and popular vacation destinations around the world.<ref name="USNWR">Template:Cite news</ref>

Hilton Hotels & Resorts participates in Hilton Honors, Hilton's guest-loyalty program established in 1989.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Members who book directly through Hilton-owned channels receive exclusive discounts and amenities such as free Wi-Fi, digital check-in, keyless entry, and the ability to use a mobile app to choose specific rooms.<ref name="Mettler16">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Bowsher16">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2015, approximately 20 Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties were inducted into the Historic Hotels of America organization. Among these hotels were Hilton Fort Worth, which hosted John F. Kennedy's final speech, and Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, the setting of the film Blue Hawaii.<ref name="Trejos14">Template:Cite news</ref>

Accommodation

U.S. Americas
(excl. US)		 Europe Middle E.
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Pacific		 Total
2013<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 246 || 42 || 151 || 50 || 65 || 554

Rooms 100,118 14,662 40,121 16,100 25,669 196,670
2014<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 239 || 43 || 152 || 51 || 75 || 560

Rooms 98,567 14,921 41,902 16,693 28,964 201,047
2015<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 238 || 45 || 154 || 52 || 83 || 572

Rooms 99,807 15,486 42,456 16,872 32,014 206,635
2016<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 241 || 43 || 143 || 52 || 91 || 570

Rooms 101,016 14,910 41,117 16,658 35,061 208,762
2017<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 244 || 43 || 142 || 51 || 98 || 578

Rooms 102,367 15,109 40,724 16,030 37,193 211,423
2018<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 244 || 48 || 138 || 50 || 106 || 586

Rooms 102,862 16,791 40,046 16,214 39,710 215,623
2019<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 242 || 48 || 135 || 50 || 109 || 584

Rooms 101,880 16,956 39,520 17,089 40,934 216,379
2020<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 239 || 49 || 131 || 47 || 114 || 580

Rooms 100,381 17,099 38,946 16,495 41,867 214,788
2021<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 246 || 55 || 127 || 45 || 125 || 598

Rooms 103,154 18,913 38,170 16,216 45,329 221,782
2022<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 246 || 55 || 127 || 47 || 129 || 604

Rooms 102,766 19,205 38,122 17,111 47,166 224,370
2023<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation CitationClass=web

}}</ref> || Properties || 246 || 57 || 126 || 49 || 135 || 613

Rooms 103,593 19,392 37,917 17,187 47,926 226,015

Notable properties

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The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills
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Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus was built in 1955 as the Istanbul Hilton, the second Hilton hotel in Europe (the first was the Castellana Hilton, in Madrid, in 1953). The Istanbul Hilton is currently the longest serving Hilton hotel outside the United States. It appeared in the James Bond film From Russia with Love (1963).
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The Hilton Edinburgh Carlton in Edinburgh, Scotland
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Hilton Tokyo
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Hilton Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Hilton Athens in Athens, Greece: The hotel opened on April 20, 1963, as Athens' first international chain hotel. Conrad Hilton was present at the opening ceremony.
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Hilton Houston NASA Clear Lake - Houston, Texas
  • Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: The Hilton Addis, a landmark hotel in Addis Ababa, was designed to resemble the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. Hilton was given a 50-year contract to manage the hotel under the condition that it will not open any other property in the city.
  • Albuquerque, United States: The Hilton Hotel in Albuquerque was opened in 1939 as the first Hilton-branded hotel outside Texas and the first high-rise in Albuquerque. It was sold to other companies in 1974 and subsequently left the chain, but ended up with Hilton again in 2019, after which it was branded as part of the Curio Collection. It has been included in the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.
  • Algiers, Algeria: The Hilton Alger first opened in 1993, but closed a year later after the assassination of a representative from Daewoo, which supervised the hotel's construction, during the height of the Algerian Civil War. It reopened as an independent hotel in 1997 and became a Hilton again in 2000, before it closed for the second time in 2017.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Beirut, Lebanon: With construction on the Beirut Hilton finished, the hotel was scheduled to open on April 14, 1975, but the Lebanese Civil War erupted exactly one day before the Grand Opening date, April 13. The hotel never opened and was severely damaged during the war, and the building was demolished in the late 1990s. However, two different hotels later opened in 2011 under the Hilton name in the city's eastern suburb, the Hilton Beirut Metropolitan Palace and the Hilton Beirut Grand Habtoor, which face each other. Both are conversions from independent hotels.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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    • The Drake Hotel was formerly a longtime rival of The Palmer House, before it was acquired by Hilton International in 1980 and operated under its Vista Hotels brand.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Istanbul, Turkey: The Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus is Hilton's first post–World War II property and is the longest operating Hilton Hotel outside the United States, having been continuously managed by the company since its opening in 1955.<ref name="Taraborrelli">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Hamblin">Template:Cite magazine</ref>
  • İzmir, Turkey: The Hilton Izmir was the tallest building in İzmir prior to the completion of the Folkart Towers. After 30 years in service, the hotel closed in 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Kansas City, United States: Hilton began managing the historic Hotel President since 2005 as the Hilton President Kansas City.
  • Kathmandu, Nepal: In 2024, Hilton announced the opening of a hotel in the Nakshal area of Kathmandu, managed by the Shanker Group. It was the tallest hotel in the city and had a glass façade that represented prayer flags.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: In 2004, the Hilton Kuala Lumpur was opened on KL Sentral, directly opposite the main entrance to the Sentral Terminal, as the replacement for their former premises in Jalan Sultan Ismail. The latter was the first internationally run hotel in the city when opening in 1973, and changed management in 2002 (renamed Crowne Plaza Mutiara) before being demolished in 2015 for a (currently on hold) mixed-use development.
  • Kyiv, Ukraine: The Hilton Kyiv is part of a 25-level, multipurpose building called the H-Tower, with the hotel occupying floors 3–8.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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|CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was the site of a bombing by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in September 1975, which killed two people and injured 63.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On 15 January 2018, Irish singer Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries died of alcohol intoxication in her room in the hotel.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

    • The Hilton London Hyde Park was rebranded in 1999 from the Coburg Hotel, which dates back to 1907.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Singapore:
    • The Singapore Hilton was developed alongside its sister property in Kuala Lumpur in 1963, but its opening was delayed to 1970, owing to the administrative logjam caused by Singapore's departure from Malaysia. It is known for hosting the popular European restaurant Iggy's. In 2022, it left the Hilton chain and has been managed by IHG Hotels & Resorts through its Voco conversion brand.
    • The Hilton Singapore Orchard was originally named the Mandarin Singapore (unrelated to the Mandarin Oriental group) until it was converted to a Hilton in 2022. It contains the Chatterbox restaurant, known for its Hainanese chicken rice.
  • Springfield, United States: The Wyndham Springfield City Centre was known as the Springfield Hilton during the company's management between 1980 and 2015. It is notable for being one of the only two chain hotels in downtown Springfield, alongside the President Abraham Lincoln Hotel.
  • Sydney, Australia: On February 13, 1978, the Sydney Hilton Hotel was the site of one of the few terrorist incidents on Australian soil, when a bomb blast killed three people (two council workers and a policeman).
  • Taba, Egypt: Hilton began managing the Aviya-Sonesta Beach Hotel in 1990, a hotel built by Israel during its occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, after an international panel ruled that the strip of land it sat on belonged to Egypt. Rebranded as Hilton Taba, the hotel was popular with Israeli tourists on account of its location near Eilat and its tax-free status (to this day, it is the only hotel in Egypt where Israelis do not need to pay a tax to travel to).<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It left the Hilton chain in 2017 and subsequently joined Deutsche Hospitality.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Willemstad, Curaçao: The Curaçao Hilton, built in 1967, was one of the first international-branded hotels on the island. The property left the chain in 1983, became a Hilton again in 2003, before leaving for good in 2019. It is currently operated by Hyatt as part of its Dreams all-inclusive brand.

Planned projects

Template:Update section A commercial space station project known as Space Islands was proposed by Hilton International in 1999 to be constructed from used Space Shuttle fuel tanks.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> When completed, it was to be called the Hilton Orbital Hotel. The tanks were to be connected together to form a ring, resulting in a space station similar to that pictured in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Plans were also drawn up for the Lunar Hilton, a 5000-room hotel on the Moon, though Steve Hilton noted in 2009 that both these plans were more symbolic than practical at this stage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In October 2012, Hilton announced a property in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka, the Hilton Dhaka, designed by Mustapha Khalid Palash. As of 2023, the hotel has yet to open, though Hilton currently has a targeted 2025 opening date.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In March 2013, Hilton announced that it would be entering Myanmar for the first time with the construction of a 300-room hotel in Yangon.<ref name="investvine">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> While the Yangon hotel has yet to materialize, Hilton did manage to open properties in Mandalay and Naypyidaw in the north of the country (although the Mandalay Hilton has since closed).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In 2018, Hilton announced two hotel projects in Kampala, Uganda: the Kampala Hilton Hotel and the Hilton Garden Inn Kampala. Both projects are still in development. A previous Hilton project in Kampala and announced in 2006 was repurposed into The Pearl of Africa Hotel Kampala, after Hilton exited the venture.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Other ventures

In 2017, Hilton announced that it would remain the sponsor for McLaren until 2021. Hilton was one of the oldest sponsors of F1 series and sponsored McLaren since 2005.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In October 2017, Hilton announced it had committed a total of $50m (£37.8m) over five years to its Hilton Africa Growth Initiative to support the continued expansion of its Sub-Saharan African portfolio.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

See also

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