Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Hampton Opens Eight Hotels in February

Florida home to the largest number of Hampton Hotels

MEMPHIS, TN, March 11, 2008—Hampton (www.hampton.com), the national brand of more than 1,450 mid-priced Hampton Inn® and Hampton Inn & Suites® hotels, opened eight properties in February 2008, representing 764 new rooms.


The new openings include two Hampton Inn hotels and six Hampton Inn & Suites properties. All openings are franchised, newly constructed hotels.


The Hampton Inn hotels are Charlotte/Belmont at Montcross, NC, 85 rooms (photo below), and Gainesville/Haymarket, VA, 95 rooms. The Hampton Inn & Suites hotels are Orlando/South Lake Buena Vista, FL, 125 rooms; Palm Coast-South, FL, 94 rooms; Seal Beach, CA, (photo top left) 110 rooms, Tampa/Wesley Chapel, FL 94 rooms; Lake Wales, FL 78 rooms; and Opelika, AL, 83 rooms.


“With the opening of four hotels this month, Florida is now home to 117 Hampton Hotels, more than any other state in the U.S.,” said Phil Cordell, senior vice president, Hampton Hotels. “We also have another seven hotels currently under construction in the state scheduled to open by year end 2009. Hampton plans to build on this development momentum as we expand across the U.S. and abroad in the coming months.”

For consumers who would like to take their hotel room experience home with them, Hampton has a new program available online at www.hamptonhomecollection.com, where many of Hampton Hotels’ guestroom amenities are available for purchase.

About Hampton Hotels
Hampton Hotels is a part of Hilton Hotels Corporation, the leading global hospitality company, with more than 2,900 hotels and 490,000 rooms in 76 countries, including 100,000 team members worldwide. The More than 2,300 hotels are owned, managed or franchised in North America withcompany owns, manages or franchises a hotel portfolio of some of the best known and highly regarded brands, including Hilton®, Conrad®, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, Hampton Inn®, Hampton Inn & Suites®, Hilton Garden Inn®, Hilton Grand Vacations®, Homewood Suites by Hilton®, and The Waldorf=Astoria Collection® hotels around the world.

For more information about Hampton Hotels, please visit hampton.com/pressandmedia.

Contacts:
Tori Roberson/Charmaine Easie-Samuels
Hampton Brand Communications
(901) 374-5534

Chris Daly
Vice President
Daly Gray Public Relations
ph: 703-435-6293

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