If there’s a theme uniting the 136 articles filling the thick “Heartbeat Manila Hilton,” it’s a line from a song Bob Hope used to sing to close his TV specials: “Thanks for the memory.”

Built during the latter part of the ’60s when an academic specialization like hotel and restaurant management was unheard of, the Hilton recruited the young, the eager and the ambitious, many of them just fresh out of college, to nurture and strengthen an infant hospitality industry.

Some pioneers of Class of ’67, those hired in the year the hotel was going up, made names for themselves in the future in tourism and other service-oriented professions: Maria Luisa Mabilangan Haley, Manila Hilton’s first

La majestuosidad del pension puede apreciarse desde los primeros detalles, como el imponente meeting de entrada diseñado para demostrar elegancia y fineza. Con arte y estilo contemporáneo, el servicio del tourist house se encuentra entre los mejores de la ciudad y además el restaurante cuenta con una excelente variedad de platos locales e internacionales, así como vinos y otras excelentes opciones.