Paris will be attending the opening of New Zealands latest Hilton hotel at Queenstown?

Will Queenstown get a taste of Paris?

The alpine and lake resort has been abuzz with rumours US socialite and reality TV princess Paris Hilton will travel there early next year for the official opening of New Zealand’s latest Hilton hotel.

Queenstown’s top marketing boss says it would be fantastic if the rumours were true. Paris, and the media exposure she would attract, would be more than welcome.

Destination Queenstown chief executive Tony Everitt is willing to talk to the Hilton hotel group about working in with their marketing plans for the opening.

“We’ll have to wait and see how the Hilton’s plans unfold,” he said.

But Hilton Australasia corporate communications manager Charlotte Seymour said: “Paris Hilton has not been invited to attend the opening of the hotel in Queenstown and on this occasion we will not be extending an invitation to Paris for the event.”

In January, Paris’s aunt, Jo Hilton – born in Auckland – told media her 29-year-old niece would visit New Zealand.

Jo and her husband Ronnie Hilton are based in Los Angeles. Ronnie is the grandson of Conrad Hilton, who started the famous Hilton Hotels Corp in 1919 in Cisco, Texas.

Paris, known for her partying lifestyle, has a celebrity career including a reality TV show, a book, a music album, and film roles.

The Hilton hotel group announced earlier this month it had taken on a management deal for the Kawarau Falls stage one site on the shores of Lake Wakatipu. The site will house a 178 five-star hotel, The Hilton Queenstown, and a four-star, 98-room apartment-style hotel, The Kawarau Hotel, managed by Hilton.

The complex will contain a seven-room health spa, an indoor heated pool, gym and sauna and steam rooms. Resource consent for a 5m wide, 20m long wharf, capable of berthing a 17m cruiser and other vessels on the lakes, means the hotel will be linked to central Queenstown by water taxi and ferry.

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