Hilton Worldwide
| Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US43300A2033 |
| founding | 1919 |
| Seat | Tysons Corner , United States |
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| Number of employees | 169,000 |
| sales | 11.663 billion USD |
| Branch | Hotel industry |
| Website | www.hilton.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Hilton Worldwide Holdings (formerly Hilton Hotels Corporation ) is a US company based in Tysons Corner , near Washington, DC , and one of the largest hotel chains in the world.
history
The hotel chain was founded in 1919 by Conrad Nicholson Hilton in Cisco (Texas) and has since developed into a leading hotel brand. In the first half of the century, growth was still limited to the USA.
The worldwide expansion began with the opening of the Caribe Hilton in Puerto Rico in 1949. The first pillar in Europe was opened in 1955 ( Istanbul ), three years later the first German representative followed in Berlin . Hilton was the first to offer guests amenities like televisions and direct dial telephones.
In 1949, Hilton Hotels Corporation and Hilton International were formed to distinguish between hotels in the United States and those outside of it. The international trademark rights were sold to the British company "The Hilton Group plc ." In the late 1960s . After Hilton International changed hands several times, the British company Ladbroke Group PLC took over the company in 1987 .
In 1997, both Hilton groups agreed to work together on marketing to ensure a uniform appearance for customers. In addition, there was a collaboration in sales and marketing, including the use of a common logo. In February 2006, Hilton International went to the parent company for $ 5.3 billion and merged with it.
The 131 hotels of its own Scandic brand were sold to the Scandinavian investment company EQT in spring 2007 for around 833 million euros . In July 2007, the investor Blackstone Group acquired the Hilton chain for US $ 26 billion (19 billion euros).
In September 2013 it was announced that the Blackstone Group would like to bring the Hilton hotels back onto the stock exchange. The stock started trading on December 11, 2013 at US $ 20 under the abbreviation HLT and ISIN US43300A1043. At the end of 2016, Blackstone still owned 40.3% Hilton Worldwide, whereby a purchase agreement with the Chinese company HNA Group was agreed for 25% .
On January 3, 2017, the merger of the spin-offs from Park Hotels & Resorts Inc. and Hilton Grand Vacations Inc. was completed. After the spin-offs, the number of shares was reduced from 30 billion to 10 billion.
Locations
overview
Hilton Worldwide is present in 104 countries. As of December 2016, the Hilton Worldwide Corporation ( NYSE : HLT) has 4,922 hotels with a total of 804,097 rooms under its management. This puts the hotel group in second place in the chain hotel industry in terms of the number of rooms, behind Marriott and ahead of InterContinental .
In the United States, 2,300 hotels are owned, managed or franchised by Hilton Worldwide . Outside the United States, the company operates 262 Hilton-branded hotels. In addition, around 700 more hotels are being planned, making the company the fastest growing hotel chain in the world.
Well-known houses are Hilton Hawaiian Village , Waldorf-Astoria in New York City , The Drake and The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago , Langham Hilton and London Hilton Park Lane , Cavalieri Hilton in Rome , Ramses Hilton in Cairo . The Nile Hilton , one of the most famous hotels in Egypt , moved to the Ritz-Carlton Group in 2009 due to disputes between the owner and operating company , under which it reopened at the end of 2011 after extensive renovations.
German-speaking area
The first Hilton hotel to open in Germany was the Berlin Hilton in West Berlin , which opened in 1958 and has been part of the InterContinental Hotels Group since 1978 . From 1971 to 1978 the German Helmut Hoermann was General Manager of the Hilton International Company and targeted the expansion into the Federal Republic of Germany.
In 1991 the Hilton Group took over the Domhotel, which Interhotel had opened on Gendarmenmarkt in November 1990 .
Currently (as of 2018), the group is represented in Germany in addition to the Hilton Berlin at Mohrenstrasse 30 in Bonn , Düsseldorf , Dresden , Cologne , Nuremberg and with two stores each in Frankfurt am Main and Mainz . Following the takeover of the former Kempinski- run hotel at Munich Airport (since then Hilton Munich Airport ), there are three Hilton-branded hotels in Munich . In addition, the chain has a Hilton Garden Inn in Stuttgart and Frankfurt am Main and a Hampton each in Aachen ( Alter Tivoli ), Berlin and Hamburg. At the beginning of 2013, the first hotel of the Hilton luxury brand Waldorf Astoria in Germany opened in the high-rise Zoofenster in Berlin .
In July 2015, the traditional Hotel Reichshof opened in Hamburg as part of the new Curio Collection under the name Reichshof Hamburg, Curio Collection by Hilton .
In Austria there are currently three Hilton in Vienna and one in Innsbruck , in Switzerland there is a hotel at Zurich Airport .
On March 1st, 2008, Olivier Harnisch took over the position of Vice President International Operations Hilton Hotels - Germany & Switzerland from his predecessor Ola Ivarsson. In this position he is responsible for the hotels in Germany and two hotels in German-speaking Switzerland. Since 2011 Olivier Harnisch has also been responsible for Austria and Scandinavia as Area Vice President Northern and Central Europe . His area of responsibility now includes 28 hotels and four brands.
Brands
As of February 15, 2017, the following brands are operated by Hilton Worldwide:
- Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts , 26 luxury hotels and resorts
- Conrad Hotels & Resorts , 29 luxury hotels and resorts
- Canopy by Hilton , 35 hotels planned
- Hilton Hotels & Resorts , 570 hotels and resorts in 85 states
- Curio - A Collection by Hilton , 110 hotels in planning
- DoubleTree by Hilton , 494 hotels and resorts
- Tapestry Collection by Hilton , 7 hotels planned
- Embassy Suites by Hilton , 232 hotels
- Hilton Garden Inn , 717 hotels
- Hampton by Hilton , 2,200 hotels
- Tru by Hilton , 383 hotels planned
- Homewood Suites by Hilton , 418 Condominium Hotels
- Home2 Suites by Hilton , 57 hotels and 476 in planning
- Hilton Grand Vacations , 47 hotels
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hilton Worldwide Holdings: Form 10-K. (PDF (1.09MB)) February 15, 2017, p. 2 , accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Hilton Worldwide Holdings: Form 10-K. (PDF (1.09 MB)) February 15, 2017, p. 41 , accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
- ↑ https://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/turkey/hilton-istanbul-bosphorus-ISTHITW/about/60-years.html
- ↑ Hilton sells Scandic hotels. In: Handelsblatt . March 3, 2007, accessed June 5, 2017 .
- ^ Hilton hotel group back on the stock exchange. In: Handelsblatt. September 12, 2013, accessed June 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Share goes on sale at $ 20. In: Handelsblatt. December 12, 2013, accessed June 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Does the HNA participation in Hilton fail? In: General hotel and gastronomy newspaper . March 7, 2017. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Hilton Worldwide Holdings: Form 10-K. (PDF (1.09MB)) February 15, 2017, p. 3 , accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
- ↑ 325 hotels . The wind of change. In: Hotels . July / August, 2016, p. 24 .
- ↑ Waldorf-Astoria moves into the zoo window. In: Der Tagesspiegel . January 24, 2009. Retrieved June 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Hotel Reichshof Hamburg gets the Curio by Hilton brand. (No longer available online.) In: hottelling . March 2, 2015, archived from the original on May 7, 2016 ; Retrieved June 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hilton Group opens first hotel in Hamburg - Curio by Hilton Reichshof in a historic building. In: TrendJam magazine . Retrieved July 16, 2015 .
- ↑ Hilton Worldwide Holdings: Form 10-K. (PDF (1.09MB)) February 15, 2017, p. 5 ff. , Accessed on March 18, 2017 (English).
