Hilton Worldwide has opened its 4,000th hotel, Hilton Shijiazhuang in the Hebei province of China. It now has 35 hotels operating in Greater China and a pipeline in this region of more than 120 hotels with more than 42,000 rooms.
Since 2007 the hotel group has added 1,100 hotels and increasing its room count by 33 percent.
It also has a pipeline of nearly 1,000 hotels with over 176,000 rooms, which is the largest in the industry and in the history of the company. Hilton Worldwide has opened more than 100 hotels globally since the beginning of 2013, with more than 110 additional hotels expected to open throughout the remainder of the year.
It has the largest pipeline of any hospitality company in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the second largest pipeline in the Americas and Asia Pacific**. Additionally, Hilton Worldwide has nearly 80 percent of its over 93,000 rooms under construction located outside the U.S. and has more rooms under construction globally than any other hospitality company**.