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Hilton Expanding in Mexico.


Beverly Hills-based Hilton Hotels
For the company involved in the buy out please see Hilton Hotels Corporation. This hotel chain is not the company being acquired.
The Hilton brand was re-united internationally after more than 40 years in February 2006, when United States-based Hilton
 Corp. will provide sales, reservations and other services to Mexico's Camino Real hotel The "Camino Real Hotel" established in 1912, this landmark in the heart of El Paso has brought together the elegance that characterizes the Camino Real name and all the warmth and tradition of Southern hospitality.  chain, the company announced.

The 14 Camino Real hotels Camino Real Hotels is a Mexican-based hotel chain consisting of hotels and resorts. History
Camino Real was the name given by 16th century Spaniards to the road that led to the capital of New Spain, today known as Mexico.
 covered in the agreement will be included in Hilton's frequent guest rewards program and will eventually adopt either the Hilton or Doubletree name once the Mexican chain's owner, Grupo Empresarial Angeles, spends more than $40 million to upgrade hotel facilities.

The 359-room Camino Real in El Paso El Paso (ĕl pă`sō), city (1990 pop. 515,342), seat of El Paso co., extreme W Tex., on the Rio Grande opposite Juárez, Mex.; inc. 1873. , the only American property included in the agreement, will be converted to a Hilton in April.

Grupo Empresarial Angeles will eventually become a Hilton franchisee under the agreement. Hilton currently operates nine hotels in Mexico and has five under development.
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Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Jan 29, 2001
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