MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, INC. (NYSE: MAR - News) is a leading lodging company with more than 2,600 lodging properties in the United States and 65 other countries and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn, Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites, and Bulgari brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the Marriott Vacation Club International, Horizons, The Ritz-Carlton Club and Marriott Grand Residence Club brands; operates Marriott Executive Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., and has approximately 133,000 employees. It is ranked as the lodging industry's most admired company and one of the best places to work for by Fortune® magazine. In fiscal year 2004, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of $10 billion.FOLLOW US ON:
Courtyard by Marriott guests love football. So you can imagine all the lobby buzz for the Big Game. Courtyard was right in the thick of it as the official hotel sponsor for the National Football Leag...
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Marriott International, Inc. is a leading worldwide hospitality company. Its heritage can be traced to a small root beer stand opened in Washington, D.C. in 1927 by J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott. Today it has more than 3500 lodging properties in the United States and 70 other countries and territories across 19 lodging and vacation resort ownership brands.
By Adrian Zackheim, Jim Collins, J. W. Marriott, Jr., Kathi Ann Brown
In the bestselling tradition of The HP Way, The Spirit to Serve describes how one of the most successful hoteliers of the twentieth century built Marriott International from a respectable $50-million-a-year enterprise into the mammoth $9-billion multinational giant of today. Told in the words of J. W. Marriott, Jr., The Spirit to Serve distills years of hard-earned wisdom and experience into twelve timeless lessons that managers at any level can implement in their own business lives.
Marriott International has appointed Paul Rushton as regional director of MICE Sales Asia Pacific. In his new role, Rushton will be responsible for the design and implementation of sales and marketing strategies and growing market share of MICE business for all Marriott branded hotels in Asia Pacific. He is based in Singapore.
Rushton was previously director at Marriott International. He ha...
Making the announcement today, Mr. Marriott said, “As we approach the 85th birthday of our company in 2012 and I proudly celebrate my 60th year of service, I decided to recommend to the board that Arne Sorenson take over the CEO responsibilities. I have been so fortunate to have worked with some of the most talented people in the world over the past six decades. It’s amazing to me what we have ...
J.W. Marriott, Jr.: I am enormously pleased that Arne will become CEO. I can say that there is no one more deserving or capable of assuming this role at such an important point in our company’s history. Arne knows the business, lives our core values, and has earned the respect and admiration of all of our company’s major stakeholders. As Arne takes over the day-to-day reins of the company, he ...
Discussing Robert McCarthy’s appointment, Mr. Marriott said, “I am also very pleased to announce that Bob has been promoted to chief operations officer. In this role, Bob will continue to have oversight for our Global Lodging Services division and for our Ritz-Carlton brand. In addition, the presidents of our four continental operating divisions will have co-reporting relationships to Bob along...
With the Middle East and Africa (MEA) division of Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) planning to double its hotels over five years, the company today announced that Alex Kyriakidis, a top global executive at Deloitte LLP, has been named president and managing director of the division, effective January 1, 2012.
Mr. Kyriakidis, currently Deloitte's global managing director for Tourism, Hos...
Marriott International is announcing new leadership for the TownePlace Suites extended-stay brand to support the company's goals to grow distribution throughout North America and support a distinctive service culture for the brand. Loren Nalewanski has been appointed Brand Vice President and Jim Dausch has been appointed Vice President, Franchising. Reporting to Loren will be Bruce Rohr, the new ...
Loren Nalewanski joined Marriott 21 years ago as a manager trainee with the Courtyard by Marriott brand in Mesa, Arizona. After leadership roles in all departments at Courtyard, Loren assumed positions both in the field and within the headquarters organization. Loren has served in the capacity of General Manager and as Area Director in Human Resources management for the company’s Chicago area hot...
Jones’ new responsibilities include providing strategic leadership to global intermediary segments such as travel management companies, travel agencies, group intermediaries, wholesalers, group tour operators and consortia. He will continue to provide strategic oversight to Marriott’s global sales operations located throughout Europe.
Jones began his Marriott career in 1995 as senior account m...
Andrea Padilla, director of field marketing for Marriott International in Latin America and the Caribbean, was honored in Miami on July 21 as one of The Internationalist’s Latin American 50, marketing professionals recognized as today’s marketing leaders shaping industry for tomorrow.
At Marriott, Andrea is responsible for field marketing and management of key relationships with strategic allian...
Joaquin Cruz has been named director of sales and marketing for JW Marriott Cancun Resort & Spa and CasaMagna Marriott Cancun Resort. In his new role, Cruz will spearhead the marketing and sales goals for both properties by creating and implementing strategies to attract and retain hotel guests and maximize revenue. Cruz, most recently the former director of sales and marketing for La Concha Rena...
Tim Miller has been named Senior Vice President and Managing Director for EDITION Hotels, the company's luxury lifestyle hotel brand. Mr. Miller will set EDITION's brand strategy, oversee operations and work with Marriott's Development team to expand the brand, which currently has hotels in Waikiki Beach, Hawaii, and Istanbul. Another five projects are in advanced stages of development in major...
Paul Adan has been named vice president of development, based in the regional offices in Weston, Florida, reporting to Laurent de Kousemaeker, chief development officer for Marriott in the Caribbean & Latin America region. Mr. Adan has more than 15 years of hotel development and consulting experienced in the region with Hilton International, Sol Melia and NH Hotels, as well as consulting firms CB...
Mr. Harrison, a 28-year veteran of the company, will oversee the company’s global architecture and interior design, construction management, estimating, finance, procurement services, and corporate facilities in his new role. Most recently, he has served as Senior Vice President of Full Service Domestic Design and Project Management for the Architecture and Construction division. In this positi...
Marriott International, Inc. announced that Carl Wilson, executive vice president and chief information officer at the company since 1997, will retire March 31. Bruce Hoffmeister, a 22-year Marriott veteran, will succeed him as Global Chief Information Officer on April 1. With more than two decades at Marriott, Mr. Hoffmeister brings a wide scope and diverse set of experiences to his new role. Cu...
Abbajay is responsible for Marriott’s portfolio of nearly 100 spas worldwide under the Ritz-Carlton, Marriott, JW Marriott and Renaissance brands, including operational standards, vendors, spa design and the financial strategy. She will also oversee the company’s retail stores, including its online retail sites - shopmarriott.com, shopcourtyard.com and collectrenaissance.com.
Her rich history i...
Simon F. Cooper will be responsible for leading the operating performance and growth of the region which includes more than 130 properties and 70 hotels under development represented by The Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott, Marriott, Renaissance, Courtyard and Marriott Executive Apartments brands. Mr. Cooper will be based in Hong Kong and assumes his new role after leading the exceptional growth and per...
Twenty-year hospitality veteran Stephane C. Masson has been named vice president, global procurement for Marriott International, Inc. He will lead a team to manage and deploy, scalable and environmentally responsible procurement initiatives around the world, increase synergies between domestic and international contracts, and advance global supplier diversity.
As Director of Sales and Marketing of the Aruba Marriott and a member of the resort’s executive team, Van den Berg will oversee and implement all ECommerce, marketing and public relations initiatives, as well as transient and group sales. Van den Berg is dedicated to maintaining the resort’s reputation for high service standards. “I’m ready and eager to enter this new chapter of my career,” said ...
Guilherme Cesari has been named vice president of development for Brazil, reporting to Laurent de Kousemaeker, chief development officer for Marriott in the Caribbean & Latin America region. Most recently, Mr. Cesari served as partner at HVS; the world’s largest consulting firm specializing in hotel investments, based in their Sao Paulo office. In his new role, Mr. Cesari will be responsible for ...
Ito, who has 26 years of hotel hospitality experience gathered on the U.S. Mainland and Hawaii, has been with Marriott International since 2000 when he was named general manager of Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort on Hawaii’s Big Island. Four years later, he relocated to Honolulu to become the director of operations at the 1,310-room Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. Most recently, he has been g...
Reporting to Arne Sorenson, the company’s newly appointed president and chief operating officer (effective May 1), McPherson will be responsible for the performance and growth of a new division that combines the United Kingdom, Ireland and Continental Europe. Following a transition period, she will relocate to Europe and begin her new role July 1.
Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square has named Lindsey Tellez as executive meetings manager. Her responsibilities include an emphasis on small corporate group meetings and food and beverage requirements for the 300-room hotel, part of an integrated facility with a total of 90,000 square feet of meeting space when combined with the convention center, both scheduled to open in Spring 2009. Tellez bri...
Carl T. Berquist, executive vice president financial information and enterprise risk management, will become executive vice president and chief financial officer, reporting to Mr. Shaw. Mr. Berquist will retain his role as the company’s principal accounting officer. Mr. Berquist, who joined the company in December 2002, led an initiative to significantly expand effectiveness and transparency in ...
Arne M. Sorenson, executive vice president, chief financial officer, and president, continental European lodging, will become president and chief operating officer of the company, reporting to Mr. Marriott. Since joining Marriott 12 years ago, Arne has rapidly emerged as one of the most effective senior executives in our industry. His success across a wide scope of disciplines uniquely positions ...
Effective May 1, William J. Shaw, currently president and chief operating officer, will become vice chairman of the company, an executive position reporting to J.W. Marriott, Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Mr. Shaw will continue to serve on the board of directors. John Marriott III, chief executive officer of JWM Family Enterprises, L.P., a private partnership, will con...
Based in Eschborn, Germany, Gros is responsible for food and beverage, rooms operations, brand standards and new hotel standards for 104 operating in Continental Europe across five marriott lodging brands. In 2005, Gros was appointed general manager for the new Cologne Marriott Hotel, where he stayed for three years managing a team of 110 associates. Prior to that, he was regional director of fo...
Iris Baugatz is appointed area director of sales and marketing for Central Europe. In this position, she will be responsible for the sales and marketing activities of currently 38 hotels in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Baugatz joined Marriott in 1997 as sales representative at the Courtyard by Marriott Berlin-Teltow. She then held assignments at the Stuttgart Marriott Hotel Sindelfingen (sal...
Vicky Varfis is the new area director of sales and marketing for Eastern Europe. Varfis started her hotel career at the Athens Ledra Marriott Hotel as sales coordinator in 1984. Over the following years, she was promoted to sales executive, sales manager and finally senior Sales manager at the same property. From 1993 to 1998, Varfis held assignments with Business Circle, as director of conferen...
Theo Ocks is named area director of sales and marketing for Western Europe. He was previously cluster director of marketing in Jakarta responsible for two Ritz-Carltons, the JW Marriott and the Mayflower (Marriott Executive Apartments) in Jakarta. His previous assignment was country director of sales and marketing for 35 Accor hotels in Indonesia. Ocks also has experience as director of sales an...
Fremlin, with the support of a sales and administrative team, leads sales efforts in the large region that covers Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, and Hawaii. Fremlin is responsible for growing market share, developing client relationships and ensuring inventory availability. Prior to joining Marriott ExecuStay, Fremlin was the general manager at the...
Jeffrey began his Marriott tenure as an assistant housekeeping manager at Marriott's Rancho Las Palmas Resort in California and quickly climbed the ranks. For the past seven years he served as general manager of the Griffin Gate Marriott Resort & Spa in Lexington, KY, where he grew sales 50%, oversaw a $12.5-million renovation and was recognized with the Regional Marriott GM Sales Leadership Awa...
Marriott International, Inc. announced Ray Bennett today as senior vice president, lodging development for select service and extended stay brands, Eastern region, and leader of Marriott’s Diversity Ownership Initiative, a program developed in 2005 to increase the number of minority- and women-owned hotels. As of year-end 2008, more than 500 hotels were owned, managed or in the pipeline by women ...
Pino is now responsible for the Marriott Vacation Club resort which is located adjacent to the 650 acre Doral Golf Resort & Spa, A Marriott Resort. Marriott’s Villas at Doral includes 141 two-bedroom villas overlooking the Great White Golf Course, a Greg Norman Signature Course. Each villa boasts a fully-equipped kitchen with granite countertops, spacious living and dining areas, luxurious beddin...
In his most recent role, Botwright served as general manager at Marriott’s Villas at Doral in Miami, Fla. Under his leadership the resort was named Marriott Vacation Club’s “World Class Resort” in 2007. Originally from Pennsylvania, Botwright graduated from Mercyhurst College in Erie, Pa. with a Bachelor of Arts degree in hotel, restaurant and institutional management. In Miami, Botwright was inv...
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Video: Marriott-Schrager Venture Expands | CNBC
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) today announced five new hotels for EDITION, a luxury lifestyle hotel brand created in partnership with Ian Schrager. The company said that the brand is on track to have six hotels operating in major global gateway cities on three continents by 2015, including one of Manhattan's most beloved buildings, the "Clock Tower." New EDITION hotels being announced today also include projects under construction in Bangkok and Abu Dhabi, as well as contracts signed for hotels in Los Angeles and Gurgaon, India.
Asia Is Strong For Hospitality Industry | Interview with Marriott's Simon Cooper
Simon Cooper, president and managing director for Asia Pacific of the Marriot Group, told CNBC, "at the present time in Asia, other than India which in the last three or four months has really seen a change of fortune, everything is really running very strongly."
Arne Sorenson, Marriott's New CEO
The board elected J.W. Marriott, Jr., currently chairman of the board and chief executive officer, as executive chairman and chairman of the board, and named Arne Sorenson, currently president and chief operating officer, as president and chief executive officer. He will be the third CEO in the company's history. The board also appointed Robert McCarthy, currently group president for the company, as Marriott International's chief operations officer. All three appointments are effective March 31, 2012.
Arne Sorenson Discusses Timeshare Spin-Off on CNBC's Squawk Box
The details behind the spin-off of Marriott's timeshare business, with Arne Sorenson, Marriott International president/COO.
Marriott's China Ambitions
Simon Cooper, President and Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of Marriott International discusses the hotel chain's expansion plans in the mainland.
Jaipur Marriott Hotel - Grand Opening
Marriott International brought its signature Marriott Hotels & Resorts brand to India’s state of Rajasthan with the opening of the 365-room Jaipur Marriott Hotel.
Marriott Facebook game featured on Fox Business Channel 6/3/11
Marriott International announced on Fox Business Channel a new Facebook game - My Marriott Hotel. The game will help Marriott recruit in emerging markets like India, China and the Middle East.
Marriott Hotel's Facebook Game
Facebook is the social media of choice and Marriott is tapping into its power to teach potential employees about the hotel business.
Marriott Hotel's Facebook game - DEMO
Marriott Intl launches Facebook recruiting game to attract new employees to its hotels. This innovative game will introduce potential many people in developing countries to the hospitality industry and it's fun.
Arne Sorenson Discusses the Summer Travel Season on CNBC's Squawk Box
Hotel room rates have risen in the last year but they are still down 10 percent from before the 2008 economic downturn, Arne Sorenson, president of Marriott International, told CNBC Thursday.
Renaissance Hotels Celebrates its Newest Gem -- Renaissance Arlington Capital View Hotel
Caitlin Moe and Mia Moretti perform for the Renaissance Arlington Capital View Grand Opening Party
Grand Opening: Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay completes a $31 Million Renovation
Miami's only marina-front hotel opens after $31 mil renovation. It showcases the new look and feel of Marriott Hotels & Resorts. Check out the "EVERYTHING MIAMI" themed party.
JW Marriott Indianapolis - Bill Marriott visit
J.W. Marriott, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Marriott International, Inc., visited the JW Marriott Indianapolis for the first time. The hotel opened its doors on February 4, 2011, making it the largest JW Marriott in the world with 1,005 rooms.
D.C. United Soccer Stars "Shake It" Up In New Fairfield Inn & Suites Lobby
Marriott Hotels' Meetings Go Green; tour by Ed Begley, Jr
Green Your Marriott Hotel Stay for $1/Day
DAVID ELSEWHERE "Learn the Moves" Promo - TownePlace Suites
MARRIOTT LOBBY REINVENTION
Courtyard by Marriott Celebrates 25 years of Innovation
Courtyard by Marriott Tour- Totally new design inside & out
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Marriott on the Move | By Bill Marriott
Marriott in the Kitchen 
