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Hilton Group plc is a leader in the leisure sector, with interests in hotels, health clubs, and a range of UK-regulated betting and gaming services. Its portfolio of world-class brands includes Hilton, the world’s most famous hotel chain, and Ladbrokes, the world’s biggest bookmaker. The Hilton International (HI) hotels division operates the Hilton brand — some 250 hotels — throughout the world except North America and sells and markets more than 2,400 hotels globally with its Alliance partner, US-based Hilton Hotels Corporation (HHC). HI also operates 140 mid-market Scandic hotels, 176 time-share properties in Egypt and Scotland and, through its Alliance with HHC, jointly operates 18 luxury Conrad hotels. Ladbrokes, the betting and gaming division, owns around 2,320 retail betting shops across the UK, Ireland and Belgium and extends its presence around the world with a range of websites: Ladbrokes.com, Ladbrokescasino.com and Ladbrokespoker.com. Between them they have more than 1 million registered customers in 160 countries. In the UK it also operates Vernons, the UK’s leading pools betting operator. Hilton Group’s LivingWell Health Clubs division operates health and fitness clubs in many Hilton hotels and a nationwide network of stand-alone Premier clubs in the UK. LivingWell’s network is international, with 15,000 members and 9 clubs, including 5 in Australia, Germany, Turkey, Malta and the most recently opened club in Brazil. Committed to doing business in a responsible way, Hilton Group aims to bring a positive benefit to the societies in which it operates, through high-quality services, economic growth, environmental protection, community involvement and employment. Hilton Group employs more than 77,000 people in more than 80 countries worldwide.

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Quick facts about Scandic Scandic is the leading hotel chain in the Nordic region, with over 140 hotels in nine countries. Scandic has won awards over the past year, both for best hotel chain in Sweden and for its genuine environmental work. Scandic offer accessible travel: it is easy and it caters for everybody.

Scandic – hotels with common sense

Scandic's thinking has roots that go deep into our Nordic heritage. We took the traditional Nordic "taking care of one another" attitude and developed it into a relaxed, affordable, good-quality, mid-market hotel concept. All our beliefs and the decisions we make within Scandic are based on Nordic common sense. Scandic will offer service that is accessible and affordable to the majority. It should be easy. It should be value for money. We intend to be open-minded. The way we work can be summed up as "Omtanke" – consideration for other people. You can see Omtanke in action whenever we serve our guests. It also guides our behaviour towards our colleagues and partners. In a broader sense, Omtanke means looking beyond economic issues to ethical and environmental considerations. True to the Nordic common sense that guides our philosophy, we want to run a business that benefits everybody: the environment, society and ourselves. Of course, our main goal is economic responsibility towards Scandic and our owners. To achieve this goal we need good salesmanship – we need to do things efficiently and ethically. For society and for the environment, our ecological goal is to be the most environmentally friendly company. Our ethical responsibility is the service and safety we offer to our guests, and we therefore put a lot of effort into security and safety at our hotels. In short, Scandic aims to be a good company in a good society.

Scandic history

The route to becoming the Nordic region's leading hotel chain began over 40 years ago, by the roadside in the district of Närke, in Sweden. Read more about the journey in this section.

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Our partners

Our partners play an especially important part in our GetAway by Scandic products. Here we provide information about who they are and how we cooperate with them.