Hilton Garden Inn
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hospitality |
| Founded | 1996 |
Area served | Worldwide (49 nations and territories) |
| Products | Hotels |
| Parent | Hilton Worldwide |
| Website | www |
Hilton Garden Inn represents a U.S.-based chain of full-service hotels designed to serve both corporate and leisure guests. As a subsidiary of Hilton Worldwide, the brand operated 862 locations worldwide as of December 2019, comprising a total of 126,086 rooms across 49 nations and territories. This portfolio includes 81 managed hotels offering 15,678 rooms and 781 franchised properties with 110,408 rooms.
Origins and Initial Expansion
The concept began in the late 1980s under the name CrestHill by Hilton, with only four of an intended 25 hotels constructed due to a sluggish real estate climate. Of these original sites, three remain part of the chain today, situated in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Southfield, Michigan, and Valencia, California. The fourth property transitioned to a Four Points hotel. Rebranded in the early 1990s as Hilton Garden Inn, the chain was created to provide accessible full-service accommodations primarily in secondary and tertiary markets. Over approximately 25 years, it grew from just four hotels to more than 860 locations.
Growth Post-2000
Hilton Garden Inn marked its international debut outside North America in 2006 with the opening of the Hilton Garden Inn Stuttgart Neckarpark in Stuttgart, Germany.
The brand has outlined plans to enter numerous markets such as Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Busselton, Croatia, the Faroe Islands, Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, India, Kenya, Ireland, along with further expansions across the United States, Canada, UK, Italy, Germany, Romania, Namibia, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Poland. A property in Santa Marta, Colombia was slated for launch by 2016.
In 2021, Hilton Garden Inn introduced its first hotel in Australasia by opening a location in Albany, Western Australia.