Hilton Hotels & Resorts is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton. The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton.

How did Hilton get started?

It was with the intention of buying a bank that he arrived in Texas at the height of the oil boom. He bought his first hotel instead, the 40-room Mobley Hotel in Cisco, Texas, in 1919, when a bank purchase fell through. ... He formed the Hilton Hotels Corporation in 1946, and Hilton International Company in 1948.

Where did the first Hilton hotel open in 1925?

1919 Conrad Hilton enters the hotel business in Cisco, Texas. On his way to buy a bank, Hilton purchases The Mobley, a local hotel, instead. 1925 The first hotel formally named a Hilton opens in Dallas, Texas.