Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Hospitality |
Founded | January 2016 |
Founder | Hilton Worldwide |
Headquarters | , |
Number of locations | 228 (2022) [1] |
Parent | Hilton Worldwide |
Website |
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Tru by Hilton is an American chain of hotels owned by Hilton Worldwide. [2] [3] [4]
The hotel brand was announced in January 2016 at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in Los Angeles. It was designed to compete against Comfort Inn and La Quinta, [5] and the first Tru by Hilton hotels were expected to open late in the same year. [6] The goal was to create rooms of 228 square feet (21.2 m2) with "clever" bathrooms. The brand uses platform beds instead of box springs and uses a landing zone where guests can place their luggage and hang their clothes rather than a dresser. Hilton realized that they could shrink the width of the room from the typical 12 to 10 feet (3.66 to 3.05 m) because typically the TV cabinet would take up 2 feet (0.61 m), but with flat screen televisions the space could be spared. The desk that was decided to be used is a portable chair attached to a table, allowing the guest to use the chair wherever they want in the room. [7] As of February 2021 [update], it has 178 properties with 17,403 rooms in two countries and territories, all franchised. [1]
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Tru by Hilton will operate as a franchise, under Hilton. When the launch of the new brand was announced, Tru by Hilton had already signed over 100 franchise agreements. [8] [9] The brand will occupy the mid-scale hotel market. [10] The hotels will offer limited food and beverage options and feature a social area characterized by a large central lobby, referred to as The Hive, that is divided into sections for eating, working, playing and lounging. [5] The front desk, called the Command Center, will also have a social media wall to engage guests. [11]
Tru by Hilton was designed to be scalable so that properties could vary in size and still fit in urban, suburban, airport or highway adjacent settings. [12] The brand's initial locations were in the Atlanta, Cheyenne, WY, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, St. Louis: St. Charles, Missouri, Denver, Portland, Boise, ID, [13] Oklahoma City and Nashville markets. [3] [9]