Hilton Hotel

The Hilton Hotel chain is one of the world's largest chains of hotels.

Founded by Conrad Hilton in Cisco, Texas in 1919, the chain has 499 hotels across the world and has partnerships with many airline and car rental companies. The American Hilton Hotels Corporation is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The Hilton Hotels company has always been a family enterprise.

The original company sold the rights to the Hilton brandname outside of North America to a UK company, which renamed itself The Hilton Group plc. Thus there are two separate companies operating Hilton Hotels.

See also:

• Hanoi Hilton
• Paris Hilton
• Waldorf-Astoria hotel

• Hilton Hotels home page
• Hilton International home page