Hilton Hotels appoints new Regional Director of Sales for Arabian Peninsula and Indian Ocean

Notes and media contacts

About Hilton Hotels Corporation:

Hilton Hotels Corporation is the leading global hospitality company, with more than 3,300 hotels and 550,000 rooms in 77 countries and more than 130,000 team members worldwide. The company owns, manages or franchises 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, the Waldorf Astoria and the Waldorf Astoria Collection, as well as the recently launched Home2 Suites by Hilton. The company also manages the world-class guest reward programme Hilton HHonors.

The company currently operates 42 hotels in the Middle East & Africa - 16 hotels in Egypt, nine hotels in the UAE, six in Saudi Arabia and one each in Oman and Kuwait, plus another nine hotels in Africa and the Indian Ocean.

Hilton Hotels has a signed development pipeline of an additional 22 properties across Middle East & Africa in the U.A.E, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Cape Verde and Tanzania.

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.

The Hilton Reservations and Customer Care telephone numbers in the Middle East are as follows:

UAE - 8000 20000 11
Qatar - 8000 20 222
KSA - 800 82000 10
Egypt - 19009
Bahrain - 8000 4058
Jordan - 00202 25805927
Kuwait - 222 56 200
Lebanon - 00202 25805928
Oman - 800 78 788
Syria - 00202 25805926

For further information please contact:

Samantha Wood
Area Director of PR & Communications
Hilton Hotels, Middle East & Africa
Tel: +971 4 365 4886
Fax: +971 4 391 6792

Keren Gatty Saunt
Associate Account Director
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Tel: +971 4 323 3668
Fax: +971 4 323 3669