Chocolate chip cookie tradition to come to China?
31 October 2006
[photopress:DoubleTreecookie.jpg,full,alignright]Hilton has signed a multi-year agreement with Tianjin Automobile Industrial Group — a 100 percent state-owned-enterprise mainly owned by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government — to manage an upscale, 360-room hotel in Tianjin. It will be called The Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Tianjin and should open in late 2007. Tianjin Automobile will refurbish and redesign a 25-story office building to house the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Tianjin. Plans call for 27,000 square feet of meeting and ballroom space and state-of-the-art business center facilities. This will be the first Doubletree Hilton in China. That is the dry news. Now the interesting bit. Doubletree is, as far as is known, the only hotel group in the world that hands every guest a chocolate chip cookie at check-in. A warm chocolate chip cookie. A delicious chocolate chip cookie. It is not known whether this tradition will carry on in China but there seems no good reason why it should stop. Hilton acquired Doubletree in December 1999. It has changed much but, so far, has kept the chocolate cookie.
Source: Commercial Property News
