Hilton's Hampton Brands on Track

Opening 90-100 Hotels in 2006, Open 13 Hotels in July

. October 14, 2008

MEMPHIS, TN, August 7, 2006. Hampton (www.hampton.com), the national brand of more than 1,350 mid-priced Hampton Inn(R) and Hampton Inn & Suites(R) hotels, has opened 13 properties in July 2006-- representing 1,239 new rooms. The new openings include five Hampton Inn hotels and eight Hampton Inn & Suites properties. The opening of 13 hotels this month helps the brand continue its incredible development strides and celebrate the opening of more than 10 hotels in a month for the third time this year.

"We are thrilled to see our brand continue to grow at such record pace," said Phil Cordell, senior vice-president, Hampton Brand Management. "The opening of our 13 new properties this month will help us maintain our target for opening 90-100 hotels in 2006, and we still estimate that 2007 will be a record year for openings overall.

"Our Hampton Inn & Suites product maintains its growth as well, with the opening of eight Hampton Inn & Suites hotels this month, constituting 80 percent of all Hampton hotel openings in 2006," added Cordell.

The next step for Hampton is the introduction of their new bedding package, featuring a crisp, white duvet cover, enveloping a plush comforter with 200-thread-count, white sheets and the guest's choice of down or foam jumbo size pillows. The new bedding package will be available in all Hampton hotels by year end 2006.

13 new Hampton Hotels opened in July 2006:

Dubuque, Iowa 7/31/2006, 97

Danbury, Conn. 7/21/2006, 116

Middletown, Del. 7/13/2006, 72

York, Neb. 7/12/2006, 64

Cambridge, Ohio 7/7/2006, 87

Hampton Inn & Suites Hotels (Open Date, Number of Rooms)

Albuquerque-Coors Road, N.M. 7/28/2006, 88

Brownsburg, Ind. 7/28/2006, 83

Atlanta Six Flags, Ga. 7/25/2006, 101

Milwaukee Downtown, Wis. 7/20/2006, 138

Wells/Ogunquit, Maine 7/14/2006, 87