Talk:Hilton Hotels Corporation

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Contents 1 Space Odyssey movie in Trivia section 2 "reads like an advertisement" 3 HHC is the not the largest hotel chain 4 Trivia 5 New subsection and racism in Norway 6 Errors

[edit] Space Odyssey movie in Trivia section

What about famous orbital Hilton hotel form "2001" Space Odyssey movie in Trivia section :-)

[edit] "reads like an advertisement"

Added the

This section is written like an advertisement. Please help rewrite this section from a neutral point of view.  (April 2008)

to the lead - someone in the know should fix a few paragraphs here. Asav (talk) 10:17, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Removed the POV and ad template. Asav (talk) 15:30, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] HHC is the not the largest hotel chain

This article needs to be changed as it suggests than HHC is the largest hotel chain in the world when Hilton Group holds that. It is therefore important to declare that HHC is simply hotels in the US & Canada therefore many facts on this page should be moved to Hilton Group.

^^ This is no longer relevant has HHC has now bought over Hilton International and there is no longer a distinction between the two companies. Thus Hilton Hotel Corporation is the largest hotel chain in the world (owning over 2600 properties across the entire Hilton Family of hotels)

The entry has the sentence, "On October 14, 2005 Hilton Hotels Corporation approached the British-based Hilton Group (FTSE:HG) with a possible sale of Hilton Group's hotel's business with a possible figure of $6.3US."

This is unclear, is this $6.3US Billion?

[edit] Trivia

Hilton becomes the first international hotel chain with the opening of the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

what date was this?

[edit] New subsection and racism in Norway

I added about controversy in Norway, Scandic Hotels and racism case. An Oslo hotel owned by the U.S.-based Hilton Hotel Corp. faced protests, a boycott and a police complaint this week after refusing to book rooms for a Cuban delegation because of the United States' trade embargo against Cuba. Norwegian law ensures that no one can be denied access based on their citizenship or ethnic origin. The 300,000-member Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees said it would boycott all Scandic hotels in Norway.We are already looking for other hotels for planned conferences," union deputy leader Anne Grethe Skaardal said Friday. "For us, it is unacceptable for the U.S. to dictate to the whole world." http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/16395787.htm —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.156.60.40 (talk) 09:24, 6 January 2007 (UTC).

If this news item is encyclopedic, which is not established at this time, then it should be included in the best article for the topic. This is likely the article that discusses the 40 year boycott that apparently was behind this event, maybe United States embargo against Cuba. A possible brief mention in the article for the Scandic Hotels property that was involved might also be appropriate. But a detailed writeup here of material repeated elsewhere is not correct. Also equating racism to a boycott that is not based on race is inaccurate. Vegaswikian 21:17, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

True, future will show is this important or not. Maybe more opinions, should stay for a while - some weeks, or removed. or moved to other location? Problem with this trade embargo is that this happened in Norway which has it's own laws. People seems to equate this to racism because the only reason for refusing to book rooms was nationality of the quests.

[edit] Errors

The article is also missing a large chunk of history where Hilton acquired Promus brands. This gave them a second corporate office in Memphis, TN (the former Promus headquarters, which is still in operation today and contains many vital functions of HHC including their entire secured data center) and it also gave them the following brands: Doubletree, Embassy Suites, Hampton Inn, and Homewood Suites. The secondary corporate office in Memphis, TN hosts their franchise departments, provides support and vital functions for their franchised hotels, and deals with such primary corporate issues such as state taxes, sales, marketing, hotel IT support, in-house programming of proprietary applications, and Human Resources- just to name a few. The Memphis coporate office should not be ignored as it is a vital operational aspect of the company.

You may also want to include that the reservations offices are in Texas but the primary customer service department is also housed at the Memphis office.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.92.67.206 (talk • contribs)