Being the first global hotel organization around the world, including in Asia Pacific, Hilton is heading towards its 100th anniversary in 2019. The organization was established in 31 May 1919, Cisco, Texas, United States by Conrad Hilton, a visionary who tried to build the organization something more than that of a pleasant place to rest.
Hilton is a leading global hospitality company, with a portfolio of 14 world-class brands comprising nearly 4,900 properties with more than 796,000 rooms in 104 countries and territories. Hilton is keen gratifying its mission to be the world”s most hospitable company by delivering extraordinary experiences.
Since the opening of its first property in Asia Pacific, Tokyo Hilton, in 1963, the hotel has extended to in excess of 750 wings, which implies opening of more than one hotel in seven days. Literally, almost one of every four hotel rooms at present under development in the region, and one out of three rooms under development in China, bears the Hilton brand.
As reported, Hilton has decided to celebrate its 100th birthday celebration by opting to employ a couple of dissenting – business creators with foundations in sociology – to look at its effect on the world. The achievements the organization has incorporated were considerably more striking than its representatives at first imagined them to be and each working day with the organization is phenomenal, as they admit.
Alan Watts, president, Asia Pacific, Hilton showing his happiness for the occasion said,” we trust the world is a superior place for the fact that Hilton took birth in it one hundred years back. Throughout our 55-year history in Asia Pacific, we have seen the amazingly positive effect travel and the travel industry can have. Today, as the focal point of importance in travel, the organization expects to proceed with a spirited soul and be the top most cited point for accommodation.”
With 50,000 employees at present working in Hilton’s lodgings and corporate workplaces in Asia Pacific, the organization for the current year was named Asia’s best worldwide work environment by Great Place to Work. There are plans to make in excess of 100,000 new occupations over the district in the years ahead.
