Hilton Hotels from the Middle East and Europe gather at the Jeddah Hilton next week (December 2-4) to promote their properties to the Saudi travel trade market.
The Hilton Roadshow kicks off in Jeddah and will move onto Riyadh and Al Khobar, showcasing a myriad of offers for both business and leisure clients. In addition to showcasing each hotel, new products such as Mini Breaks, Hilton HHonors Event Bonus and Personalised Online Groups (POG), a service offering a straightforward way for companies to organise business meetings and events online.
“All our new products have been created with our clients in mind,” said Guy Epsom, Regional Director of Sales & Marketing for Hilton Hotels in the Arabian Peninsula and Indian Ocean. “POG, for instance saves much of the work that bookers have to do. It is a very powerful tool for conference and events organisers. By offering companies an attractive and customised webpage, their delegates can make their own booking arrangements.”
Hilton Hotels, the global hospitality company, is the leading hotel brand of choice in the world and also in the Middle East. The rankings, published in the 2007 survey report by the independent research company, Business Development Research Consultants (BDRC), saw Hilton regain its pole position by achieving the highest scores among hospitality brands in four of the five criteria terms, including unaided awareness, level of usage, preferred first or second choice for guests, and the highest loyalty ratio. Packages such as Mini Breaks with its unparalleled choice of destinations, offers late checkout and lazy extended breakfast anytime during the week or weekends.
“Almost all countries look to tourism to help generate increased foreign exchange earnings,” said Inayat Ramjean, Director of Sales & Marketing for Hilton Hotels in Saudi Arabia. “Within the Middle East region, Saudi Arabia commands the largest outbound and inbound travel market both in terms of volume and value, hence we are very keen to attract Saudi clientele to our properties. On the other hand with over eight million tourists travelling inbound primarily to the Holy Muslim cities of Makkah and Madinah, via Jeddah, our properties in all these cities are very well placed.”
Hilton Hotels Corporation is the leading global hospitality company, with more than 2,800 hotels and 480,000 rooms in 76 countries and territories, including 100,000 team members worldwide.
The company owns, manages or franchises a hotel portfolio of some of the best known and highly regarded hotel brands including Hilton®, Conrad® Hotels & Resorts, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, Hampton Inn®, Hampton Inn & Suites®, Hilton Garden Inn®, Hilton Grand Vacations™, Homewood Suites by Hilton®, and The Waldorf=Astoria Collection®.
The company currently operates 43 hotels in the Middle East and Africa – 18 hotels in Egypt, nine hotels in the UAE, four in Saudi Arabia and one each in Oman and Kuwait, plus another ten hotels in Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Hilton's heritage in the Middle East stretches back nearly 50 years, when it became the first international hotel brand to open a property in Egypt - the Nile Hilton in 1959. It was also the first international hotel brand to open a property in the UAE over 35 years ago - the Hilton Al Ain in 1971.
The 46-suite Qasr Al Sharq, or ‘Palace of the Orient’ which opened last year is now a member of The Waldorf=Astoria Collection®. The first phase of a Worldwide Resort in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE opened in January this year with 151 villa suites right on the beach.
Hilton Hotels has an opening pipeline of an additional 15 properties across Middle East & Africa in the U.A.E, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda and Ghana.
The Hilton Family of Hotels adheres to founder Conrad Hilton’s philosophy that, “It has been, and continues to be, our responsibility to fill the earth with the light and warmth of hospitality.” The company put a name to its unique brand of service that has made it the best known and most highly regarded hotel company: be hospitable®. The philosophy is shared by all brands in the Hilton Family of Hotels, and is the inspiration for its overarching message of kindness and generosity (www.behospitable.com)
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The Hilton Reservations and Customer Care telephone numbers in the Middle East are as follows:
UAE - 8000 20000 11 Qatar - 800 97103
KSA - 800 82000 10 Egypt - 19009
Bahrain - 8000 4058 Jordan - <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = SKYPE />00 202 5805927
Kuwait - 00965 225 6200 Lebanon - 00 202 5805928
Oman - 800 788788 Syria - 00 202 5805926
