24 April 2008
Nile Hilton recently held the Team members' Annual Training Certificate Presentation. The ceremony took place at Alf Leila Ball room on April 1st 2008.

Mr Jean Welti General Manager presented certificates to all team members who had participated in training courses through out the year 2007.

The ceremony was followed by a delicious lunch buffet prepared specially by the Kitchen team in celebration of the awarded team members.

In the photo: Mr Jean Welti, General Manager (centre), Mrs Hasnaa Aziz, Training Manager, Mr Haakon Gaarder-Larsen, Director of Operations, Mr Hisham Abousbaa, Personnel Manager , and Mr Youssef Ahmed Human Resources Manager with the awarded team members.

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Hilton Hotels Corporation is the leading global hospitality company, with more than 2,900 hotels and 490,000 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.

Hilton Hotels has a signed development pipeline of an additional 16 properties across Middle East & Africa in the U.A.E, Qatar, Kuwait, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Equatorial Guinea, Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde.

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:
Samantha Wood
Area Director of PR & Communications
Hilton Hotels, Middle East & Africa
Tel: +971 4 365 4886
Fax: +971 4 391 6791
Email: Samantha.Wood@hilton.com

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