SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

SCHEDULE 13D

[Rule 13d-101]

INFORMATION TO BE INCLUDED IN STATEMENTS FILED PURSUANT

TO § 204.13d-1(a) AND AMENDMENTS THERETO FILED PURSUANT TO § 240.13d-2(a)

(Amendment No. 10)

Hyatt Hotels Corporation

(Name of Issuer)

Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share

(Title of Class of Securities)

448579102

(CUSIP Number)

Michael A. Pucker, Esq.

Cathy A. Birkeland, Esq.

Latham & Watkins LLP

233 S. Wacker Drive, Suite 5800

Chicago, Illinois 60606

(312) 876-7700

(Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

August 30, 2013

(Date of Event which Requires Filing of this Statement)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition that is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because of §§240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the following box.     ¨

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The information required in the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (“Act”) or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the Notes).

* Represents shares of the Issuer’s Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Class A Common Stock”), issuable upon conversion of shares of the Issuer’s Class B Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share (the “Class B Common Stock” and, together with the Class A Common Stock, the “Common Stock”). As provided in the Issuer’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, each share of Class B Common Stock is convertible at any time, at the option of the holder, into one share of Class A Common Stock.

The Reporting Person is party to certain agreements with the Separately Filing Group Members (as defined in the Schedule 13D), which agreements contain, among other things, certain voting agreements and limitations on the sale of their shares of Common Stock. As a result, the Reporting Person may be deemed to be a member of a “group,” within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the Act (as defined in the Schedule 13D), comprised of the Reporting Person and the Separately Filing Group Members. Shares listed as beneficially owned by the Reporting Person exclude shares held by any other Reporting Person or by any of the Separately Filing Group Members, in each case as to which the Reporting Person disclaims beneficial ownership.

All references to the number of shares outstanding are as of July 26, 2013, as reported in the Issuer’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2013. The percentage is calculated using the total number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Person and based on 156,615,984 shares of Common Stock outstanding as of July 26, 2013. With respect to matters upon which the Issuer’s stockholders are entitled to vote, the holders of Class A Common Stock and Class B Common Stock vote together as a single class, and each holder of Class A Common Stock is entitled to one vote per share and each holder of Class B Common Stock is entitled to ten votes per share. The shares of Class B Common Stock owned by the Reporting Person represent 0.9% of the total voting power of the Common Stock as of July 26, 2013. The percentage of total voting power of the Common Stock is calculated based on the total voting power of the Common Stock outstanding as of July 26, 2013, which is comprised of 44,088,521 shares of Class A Common Stock and 112,527,463 shares of Class B Common Stock and assumes that no outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock have been converted into shares of Class A Common Stock.

EXPLANATORY NOTE: This Amendment No. 10 to Schedule 13D (“Amendment No. 10”) relates to the Class A Common Stock, $0.01 par value per share, of Hyatt Hotels Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), which has its principal executive office at 71 South Wacker Drive, 12th Floor, Chicago, Illinois 60606. This Amendment No. 10 amends and supplements, as set forth below, the Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person with respect to the Issuer on August 26, 2010 (the “Original Schedule 13D”), as amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on September 9, 2010 (“Amendment No. 1”), Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on May 18, 2011 (“Amendment No. 2”), Amendment No. 3 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on November 29, 2011 (“Amendment No. 3”), Amendment No. 4 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on January 4, 2012 (“Amendment No. 4”), Amendment No. 5 filed by the Reporting Person on December 4, 2012 (“Amendment No. 5”), Amendment No. 6 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on December 11, 2012 (“Amendment No. 6”), Amendment No. 7 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on May 15, 2013 (“Amendment No. 7”), Amendment No. 8 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on June 4, 2013 (“Amendment No. 8”) and Amendment No. 9 to Schedule 13D filed by the Reporting Person on June 21, 2013 (“Amendment No. 9”). The Original Schedule 13D, as amended and supplemented by Amendment No. 1, Amendment No. 2, Amendment No. 3, Amendment No. 4, Amendment No. 5, Amendment No. 6, Amendment No. 7, Amendment No. 8 and Amendment No. 9, is referred to as the “Schedule 13D.” All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings ascribed to them in the Schedule 13D. The Schedule 13D is amended and supplemented by adding the information contained herein. Only those items amended are reported herein.

Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is amended and supplemented as follows:

On August 30, 2013, the Reporting Person, solely in its capacity as trustee of certain trusts for the benefit of Penny Pritzker, transferred 446,851 shares of Class B common stock to certain other trusts for the benefit of Penny Pritzker. As a result of this transfer, the shares are now held by trusts reported on the Schedule 13D filed by a Separately Filing Group Member, Trustees of the Penny Pritzker Family Trusts and Other Reporting Persons, and are no longer reported on this Schedule 13D. There has been no change in beneficial ownership in connection with these shares now being reported by the Separately Filing Group Member. No consideration was paid in connection with this transfer, and this transfer constitutes a “Permitted Transfer” as defined in the Issuer’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and, accordingly, the transferred shares of Class B Common Stock remain shares of Class B Common Stock following this transfer.

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is amended and supplemented as follows:

On August 30, 2013, the Reporting Person, solely in its capacity as trustee of certain trusts for the benefit of Penny Pritzker, transferred 446,851 shares of Class B common stock to certain other trusts for the benefit of Penny Pritzker. As a result of this transfer, the shares are now held by trusts reported on the Schedule 13D filed by a Separately Filing Group Member, Trustees of the Penny Pritzker Family Trusts and Other Reporting Persons, and are no longer reported on this Schedule 13D. There has been no change in beneficial ownership in connection with these shares now being reported by the Separately Filing Group Member. No consideration was paid in connection with this transfer, and this transfer constitutes a “Permitted Transfer” as defined in the Issuer’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation and, accordingly, the transferred shares of Class B Common Stock remain shares of Class B Common Stock following this transfer.

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is amended and supplemented as follows:

(a)-(b) As of the date hereof, the Reporting Person may be deemed to be the beneficial owner of 1,038,877 shares of Class A Common Stock, issuable upon conversion of 1,038,877 shares of Class B Common Stock beneficially owned by the reporting person. The number of shares of Class B Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Person represents 0.9% of the total number of shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding. The number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Reporting Person represents 0.7% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding and 0.9% of the total voting power of the shares of Common Stock outstanding, voting together as a single class, assuming that no outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock have been converted into shares of Class A Common Stock.

Schedule A attached to this Amendment No. 10 amends and restates, in its entirety, Schedule A attached to the Schedule 13D. Schedule A attached to this Amendment No. 10 sets forth, as of the date hereof, the number of shares and percentage of the Class A Common Stock outstanding, the number of shares and percentage of the Class B Common Stock outstanding, the percentage of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding, and the percentage of the total voting power of the shares of Common Stock outstanding, voting together as a single class, represented by the shares beneficially owned by each Reporting Person.

Based solely on the information contained in the Schedule 13Ds, as amended, filed by the Separately Filing Group Members, as of the date hereof, the Pritzker Family Group in the aggregate may be deemed to be the beneficial owners of 23,019 shares of currently issued Class A Common Stock and 87,415,377 shares of Class A Common Stock issuable upon conversion of 87,415,377 shares of Class B Common Stock beneficially owned by the Pritzker Family Group. The number of shares of Class A

Common Stock beneficially owned by the Pritzker Family Group and currently issued represents less than 0.1% of the total number of shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding, assuming that no outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock have been converted into shares of Class A Common Stock. The number of shares of Class B Common Stock beneficially owned by the Pritzker Family Group represents 77.7% of the total number of shares of Class B Common Stock outstanding. The number of shares of Common Stock beneficially owned by the Pritzker Family Group represents 55.8% of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding and 74.8% of the total voting power of the shares of Common Stock outstanding, voting together as a single class, assuming that no outstanding shares of Class B Common Stock have been converted into shares of Class A Common Stock.

Schedule B attached to this Amendment No. 10 amends and restates, in its entirety, Schedule B attached to the Schedule 13D. Schedule B attached to this Amendment No. 10 sets forth, as of the date hereof, the number of shares and percentage of the Class A Common Stock outstanding, the number of shares and percentage of the Class B Common Stock outstanding, the percentage of the total number of shares of Common Stock outstanding, and the percentage of the total voting power of the shares of Common Stock outstanding, voting together as a single class, represented by the shares beneficially owned by the Reporting Person and each Separately Filing Group Member. All information with regard to the Separately Filing Group Members is based solely on the information contained in the Schedule 13Ds filed by the Separately Filing Group Members.

Item 7 of the Schedule 13D is amended and supplemented as follows:

SIGNATURES

After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and belief, I certify that the information set forth in this statement is true, complete and correct.

Dated: September 6, 2013

[Signature Page to Amendment No. 10 to Schedule 13D]

Appendix A

Non-U.S. Situs Trusts

Schedule A

Certain Information Regarding the

Reporting Persons¹

Schedule B

Certain Information Regarding the

Separately Filing Group Members¹

Exhibit 8

CERTIFICATE OF SECRETARY

The undersigned, not individually but solely in the undersigned’s capacity as the Secretary of CIBC Trust Company (Bahamas) Limited, a company incorporated in the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (the “Company”), hereby certifies with respect to the Company as follows:

Listed below are the names of representatives of the Company who are duly authorized, empowered and directed, in the name and on behalf of the Company, to:

The signatures appearing opposite their respective names are original copies of their true and genuine signatures.

[Signature Page Follows]

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereunder subscribe my name, not individually, but solely in my capacity as Secretary of the Company, effective as of this 6th day of September, 2013.