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Article

2 Mar 2007

Author:
Duncan Campbell, Guardian [UK]

Hilton hotels lift European ban on Cubans

The Hilton group yesterday reversed its ban on Cuban delegations staying at its hotels in Europe...The action came after unions and parliamentary groups in Europe announced plans to boycott the organisation after a Cuban trade delegation was banned from a Hilton hotel in Oslo and excluded from the group's hotels throughout Europe. In a letter...the Hilton Hotel Corporation said: "As a US-based company, we face a legal dilemma, with a strict ban on trading with Cuba imposed by the US government, and contradictory legislation in the UK making it illegal to discriminate on the grounds of nationality."