20 January 2008
Hilton Hurghrada Long Beach Resort convenes the annual party for the staff celebrating the successes and profits achieved by the resort during 2007.

The celebration was attended by General Manager, Mr. Kareem Nahas, who praised the efforts exerted by the staff members, reviewing the results and achievements of the hotel. He also unveiled some of the future plans for development and growth.

"These successive achievements and successes will be added to the long history of Hilton Hotels and Resorts in Egypt, as a natural result for the staff efforts of the wide spread branches nationwide. These efforts were crystal clear in Hilton Hurghada Long Beach Resort staff that managed to do their best to reach such distinctive level of profits and results during 2007" Nahas declared on this regard.

The celebration included a number of wonderful parts and dancing shows, in addition to distributing the prizes for the distinguished individuals of the different departments and the hotel staff.

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Note to Editors:
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, with 14,481 rooms and 16,700 team members. This portfolio covers three regions:

  • Arabian Peninsula & Indian Ocean (17 hotels): U.A.E, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Mauritius, Seychelles

  • Egypt & North Africa (21 hotels): Egypt, Morocco, Algeria

Africa (6 hotels): Nigeria, Ethiopia, Kenya, Cameroon, South Africa

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 a signed development pipeline of an additional 15 properties in the Arabian Peninsula (U.A.E - the Residence, Beach Club and Conrad - all in Dubai - in Abu Dhabi with its first Conrad, two new Hilton Worldwide Resorts in Ras Al Khaimah and Hilton hotels in Qatar and Kuwait), Egypt (Luxor), Lebanon (Beirut), Jordan (Amman & Aqaba), Equatorial Guinea (Malabo), Uganda (Kampala) and Ghana (Accra).

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)

For more information about our company, please visit www.hiltonworldwide.com. To download images please visit www.vismedia-online.com

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              - 00 202 5805927
Kuwait             - 00965 225 6200           Lebanon           - 00 202 5805928
Oman                 - 800 788788                 Syria                - 00 202 5805926 

For further information please contact:
Noha Bassily
Regional Public Relations Manager
Hilton Hotels Egypt
Tel:  +20 2 2594 6933
Fax: +20 2 2594 6922
Email: Noha.Bassily@hilton.com

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