Doubletree hotel and resorts refers to the chain providing full-service on an international level. It has got its trademark from the Hilton Hotels Corporation.
In recent times it is comprised of 160 properties, which is providing services through 42,168 rooms in all parts of Canada and Latin America. Major number of Doubletree Hotels have their independent owners and the operation is carried out through franchisees. The brands of Doubletree consists of Doubletree Guest Suites, Doubletree Hotels as well as Doubletree Club Hotels.
The foundation of the initial Doubletree Hotel was laid in the year 1969 in Scottsdale, Arizona adjacent to Scottsdale Fashion Square mall. Currently, this particular location is used in the form of Scottsdale Days Inn. The land has been actually acquired on lease basis from the mall and the lease is scheduled to expire in the year 2009.
One more Doubletree Hotel was started in 1974 in Tucson, Arizona. It further led to the introduction of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies during the 1980s. The year 1994 marks the formation of Doubletree Corporation that took place through the merger of Guest Quarters Suites Hotels as well as Doubletree Hotels. The merger of Red Lion Hotels Inc. and Doubletree Corporation took place in 1996.
While the merger process of Promus Hotel Corporation and Doubletree Corporation was carried out in 1997. Doubletree Hotels initiated the utilisation of Relax Max song belonging to Dinah Washington in one of their television commercials in 2006. It started with its initial brand in Europe at Cambridge Garden House Hotel, Cambridge in the month of April 2008.
Doubletree Hotels, Suites, Resorts and Clubs maintain a tradition of offering chocolate chip cookie to all their guests during the time when they check-in into their property. This is also a practice to put them at an advantage to the rest of their competitors. As per the estimations made Doubletree distributes nearly 29,000 chocolate chip cookies on a daily basis, which comes to a total of more than 125,000,000. The manufacturers of these cookies are the Christie Cookie company and in June 2002 Doubletree went ahead and distributed its 100,000,000th cookie to its customers.
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