Hilton Worldwide achieved several milestones in 2010, including opening its 600,000th guestroom in the U.S. Hilton is now the largest hospitality company in the country by number of rooms. Other big achievements include:
- Reaching a global pipeline by year end that included 868 hotels and more than 138,000 rooms.
- Opened 178 hotels with more than 24,000 rooms and signed management agreements or franchise agreements on more than 230 hotels with more than 44,000 rooms. These signings increased Hilton Worldwide’s pipeline outside the U.S. by nearly 40 percent in 2010 in terms of number of rooms, with the Asia Pacific and Middle East & Africa regions combined increasing 52 percent.
- Increased the percentage of its total pipeline of rooms outside the U.S. from 15 percent in 2007 to approximately 50 percent by the end of 2010, and the percentage of its rooms under construction outside the U.S. grew from 11 percent in 2007 to 73 percent by the end of 2010.
- Became the first major global hospitality company to implement a sustainability measurement system as a brand standard with LightStay, which measures energy and water use as well as waste and carbon outputs at its properties globally.
Last year, the company also saw construction completed on the first Home2 Suites location and the launch of eforea spa at Hilton hotels.
