Wholesale Travel Distributor Tourico Holidays, Inc., Connects Directly with Selected Hilton Family Hotels

ORLANDO, Fla. | Providing more efficient connectivity for travel sellers worldwide, the vast inventory of Hilton Family of Hotels in the U.S. is now available to the world’s largest travel agencies, tour operators, and consumer travel web sites through Tourico Holidays, Inc. This agreement allows Tourico Holidays to connect with the renowned flagship, offering clients a variety of properties, including Hilton, Conrad, Doubletree, Embassy Suites Hotels, Hilton Garden Inn, Hilton Grand Vacations and The Waldorf=Astoria Collection hotels, in destinations across America.

“Our company is a single source that distributes travel inventory through a wide variety of channels worldwide. Not only will we be able to provide our clients with selected hotels they need within the Hilton Family of Hotels, but this partnership will supply Hilton’s U.S. properties with year-round reservations, as we’ve opened up their inventory to a global marketplace. When Japanese tourism is in low season, Italian tourism industry is in high season,” explains Asi Ginio, Executive Vice President of Product Development for Tourico Holidays, a Travel Holdings, Inc., company.

Connecting with Hilton’s American inventory is also greatly advantageous for Tourico Holidays, which can now offer its clients the ability to book Hilton properties up to the last minute. The company’s retail clients, including sister site, LastMinuteTravel.com, will also feature these Hilton properties at rates that support Our Best Rates. Guaranteed. *

"We are delighted about our relationship with Tourico Holidays, which has led to a direct connect with many of our U.S. hotels,” says Kelly Yoder Phillips, Vice President, International and Leisure Sales for Hilton Hotels Corporation. “We anticipate this direct connect enhancement to result in additional inbound business from the almost 100 countries in which Tourico Holidays is operating, including gateway and secondary cities where our hotels are located. Conversely, direct connect will provide Tourico Holidays customers with nearly unlimited room inventory to book our hotels in the U.S."

Tourico Holidays continues to be a leading provider of wholesale travel on a global scale by providing its clients with desirable properties like those in the Hilton Family of Hotels. This connectivity follows the very successful direct connection with the former Hilton International in mid-2007, which is now part of Hilton Hotels Corporation.

* Restrictions apply. Lower rate must be found on a non-Hilton Family Booking channel. Claim must be submitted within 24-hours of booking. See for full terms and conditions of Our Best Rates. Guaranteed.

About Tourico Holidays, Inc. | Tourico Holidays, (), is a subsidiary of Travel Holdings, Inc., a worldwide travel distribution company. Tourico Holidays is a global wholesale travel provider with over 150 international distribution websites, more than 13,000 merchant hotel agreements, operating in 23 languages in over 100 countries. As a supplier to over 2,000 tour operators and travel agents, Tourico Holidays operates and maintains global websites and online interfaces that serve a large diversity of travel sellers.

About Hilton Hotels Corporation | Hilton Hotels Corporation is a leading global hospitality company, with more than 3,000 hotels and 500,000 rooms in over 76 countries and territories, including 100,000 team members worldwide. The company owns, manages or franchises a hotel portfolio of some of the best known and highly regarded brands, including Hilton®, Conrad® Hotels & Resorts, Doubletree®, Embassy Suites Hotels®, Hampton Inn®, Hampton Inn & Suites®, Hilton Garden Inn®, Hilton Grand Vacations®, Homewood Suites by Hilton® and The Waldorf=Astoria Collection®. For more information about our company, please visit .