Hilton HHonors Strategic Response to Starwood Preferred Guest: The Battle for Customer Loyalty Hilton HHonors is a program which was designed to build loyalty to the Hilton brand worldwide. Membership in the program is open to anyone who applies at no charge. Members earn points toward their Hilton Honors account whenever they stay at a HHC or HIC property. Like many other reward programs‚ as members accumulate points they can redeem them for HHonors hotels or use them toward products and services
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an aggressive frequent guest program Issue statement: How can H maintain its customers loyalty in response to Starwood Case analysis Customer 3 segments average member belongs to 3.5 programs want a streamlined reward-redemption process and points that do not expire most important feature: room upgrades‚ airline miles‚ free hotel stays‚ a variety of on-property benefits and services game players corporation Hilton: managed by Hilton hotels corporation and Hilton international 492 hotels‚ 154000
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Hilton Hotels is one of the market leaders in the hotel and gaming industry in the United States. Hilton is a well-known and distinguished name in fine hotels across the United States and worldwide. In 1999‚ Hilton expanded aggressively by acquiring the Promus Hotel Corporation‚ Hampton Inn and Suites‚ Doubletree Hotels‚ Embassy Suites Hotels‚ and Homewood Suites. Hilton Hotels Corporation has grown to become the world ’s most recognized and most successful hotel company (Hilton Innovation‚ 2007)
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Hilton Hotels Corp - Travel and Tourism - World Euromonitor International : Global Company Profile January 2009 Hilton Hotels Corp - Travel and Tourism World List of Contents and Tables Strategic Evaluation................................................................................................................................................ 1 SWOT analysis........................................................................................................................
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Case Study | Hilton The challenge Facing intense competition to secure high calibre graduates‚ Hilton International were keen to radically overhaul their approach to the recruitment and selection of management trainees. Equally critical for the future success of the business was the need to introduce an accelerated management training and development scheme which would significantly reduce the typical 15-20 year timeframe for a new recruit to reach the level of an international Hotel General
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1‚ 1964‚ known as Hilton International Co.. It was acquired in 1967 by Trans World Corp.‚ the holding company for Trans World Airlines. In 1986 it was sold to UAL Corp.‚ the holding company for United Airlines‚ which became Allegis Corp. in an attempt to re-incarnate itself as a full-service travel company encompassing Westin Hotels and Hertz rental cars in addition to Hilton International and United Airlines. In 1987 after a corporate putsch‚ the renamed UAL Corp. sold Hilton International to Ladbroke
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Hilton’s suppliers The touches that make Hilton Worldwide. Their supply management professionals in corporate offices and their six regional offices negotiate and implement contracts and agreements with suppliers of products and services in three key areas – Food & Beverage (F&B)‚ Guest Rooms and Public Space‚ and Property Operations ------------------------------------------------- Food & Beverage Hilton Supply Management works closely with national and regional food and beverage
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is that Hilton HHonors need to decide how to approach a different positioning stand and focus on differentiating its loyalty program from the recently announced Starwood Preferred Guest and other competitors rather than to match their program with Preferred Guest. It is recognized that other competitors such as Hyatt and Marriot who are part of the big players in the hotel industry have not respond to Starwood’s announcement. Thus‚ Hilton will need to decide how to differentiate HHonors from other
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The following analysis highlights the internal strengths and weaknesses of our organization and the opportunities and threats facing the company in our external environment. We must work to improve our areas of weakness. Organizational strengths must be leveraged in order to capitalize on external opportunities as They arise‚ and contingency plans formulated in order to deal with threats presented by the environment. SWOT Strengths • Strategy: established differentiation strategy
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Hilton history 1893At the direction of Bertha Palmer‚ the first American “brownie” is created in The Palmer House Hilton kitchen. It is served at the Columbian Exposition World Fair. 1919Conrad Hiltonenters the hotel business in Cisco‚ Texas. On his way to buy a bank‚ Hilton purchases The Mobley‚ a local hotel‚ instead. 1925The first hotel formally named a Hilton opens in Dallas‚ Texas. Elevators‚ laundry shoots‚ air shafts and other non-customer facilities are built along the west side of
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