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Hilton Hotels leaving Bahrain
2005-12-20
Interesting, though I've no clue if this is significant.
The Hilton chain is pulling out of Bahrain after 30 years, it was revealed yesterday. As of next month, the Hilton in Manama will be managed by another international chain called Golden Tulip Hospitality. Golden Tulip, which has its head offices in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, and Lausanne, Switzerland, has already signed a management agreement with the Hilton's owners in Bahrain.Golden Tulip Hospitality is the owning company of Golden Tulip Hotels, Inns & Resorts, franchising some 251 hotels across 37 countries - with the majority of hotels located in urban destinations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Through its commercial alliance with TOP International Hotels, a German-based hotel consortium, the French B&B Group and Australian Tourism Hotels and Leisure (THL), the combined portfolio comprises more than 52,000 rooms in 534 hotels. A Hilton spokesman was not available for a comment yesterday.
"Um."
Posted by:Seafarious

#6  Strange how the Holiday Inns overseas are quite nice places, in sharp contrast to their stateside establishments.
Posted by: gromky   2005-12-20 01:51  

#5  The Holiday Day Inn was a close second.

Yeah, the Holiday Inn was nice. But the flight attendants stayed at the Hilton... (heh).
Posted by: Pappy   2005-12-20 00:42  

#4  I thought it might be something like that, but one never knows these days, does one? I stayed at a Golden Tulip hotel in Amsterdam. I may even still have a towel or two from there...
Posted by: Seafarious   2005-12-20 00:40  

#3  Sea, this is probably just part of a series of realignments going on in the hotel industry worldwide. 9/11 and oil prices have changed the economics for tourists from some places to the middle east ... Golden Tulip caters to Euro travellers whose airfares will be a lot less expensive (in some cases subsidized by their governments) than they would be for American travellers. Hilton just sold a bunch of hotels in the UK too, some of them to Golden Tulip IIRC.
Posted by: lotp   2005-12-20 00:34  

#2  The Holiday Day Inn was a close second. $8.00 for a pint of Guinness was a bit dear however. But the all girl Phillipino band singing Achy Breaky Heart night after night made it all worthwhile.
Posted by: Besoeker   2005-12-20 00:32  

#1  Dang. I liked the Hilton in Manama.
Posted by: Pappy   2005-12-20 00:27  

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