Washington Post (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The luxury Ritz-Carlton hotel chain will cease to be a stand-alone division under the Marriott International umbrella as part of a reorganization that the Bethesda-based company plans to complete by 2011.
The Washington Business Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A D.C. judge has given The JBG Cos. the go-ahead to proceed with a lawsuit to block the city’s deal with Marriott International Inc. for a convention center hotel.
Maghreb Confidential (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Marriott International has been seeking to set up operations in Algeria for five full years. Now it has every hope of doing so, announcing, as it did, that it would open a complex to the east of the capital with 227 rooms and 180 apartments. (...) [178mots]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International (NYSE: MAR) has unveiled the new look of Marriott.com, the world's 7th largest online consumer retail site.* It is the first in a series of improvements to Marriott.com that will make it easier for guests to find and book hotels and manage their Marriott Rewards® account online. Customers will also continue to earn Marriott Rewards®...
TravelDailyNews.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Marriott International announced the signing of five hotels for its newly established Middle East & Africa Region, including its first properties in Algeria, Ghana and Morocco.
Caribbeans Science and Art. (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
By Jens Erik Gould and Nadja Brandt Nov. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Spanish hotelier Sol Melia SA will benefit over American rivals like Marriott International Inc. if a bill before U.S. lawmakers this week to end a 46-year travel ban to Cuba is enacted while a broader embargo is kept in place. The trade embargo would ban U.S. hotel operators from lodging the 1.1 million Americans that the U.S. International...
TravelDailyNews.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Marriott International, Inc. launched The Autograph Collection, a new brand within the company’s global portfolio comprised of upper upscale and luxury, independent, hotels with
GreenBiz.com Green Business News (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In the latest move to expand its sustainability efforts, Marriott International Inc. says its green hotel portfolio will grow tenfold in the next five years with the introduction of a design prototype for new green properties.
The Baltimore Business Journal (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Marriott International Inc. is expanding on several fronts with new hotels in the Middle East and Africa and a new brand. (MAR)
GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
By insider. Pres/COO Ritz Carlton Hotel Co of Marriott International Inc. ( MAR ) Simon Cooper sells 3,500 shares of MAR on 11/10/2009 at an average price of $26.59 a share. Read more » »
Brand Mix (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
As a brand architect, I've always loved Marriott International. Here's a company that's really explored all the brand architecture options. See how, on this frequently-used chart of mine, the company has managed the relationship between the Marriott brand and its hotel properties up and down the price/quality spectrum. Its lower-priced hotels get a Marriott seal of quality endorsement but are kept...
GlobalGiants.Com (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
ENLARGE Photo: Marriott International will expand its green hotel portfolio ten-fold in five years, with a new green hotel prototype for its Courtyard brand that will be pre-certified LEED(R) (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) by the U.S. Green Building Council. Shown here, the Courtyard Portland City Center, which is certified LEED-Gold. (© Marriott International, Inc., William...
The Washington Business Journal (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Marriott International, whose Inn & Conference Center at the University of Maryland College Park was the first hotel in North America to win certification from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, plans to accelerate development of green hotel projects. (MAR)
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) launched today The Autograph Collection, a new brand within the company's global portfolio comprised of upper upscale and luxury, independent, hotels with distinctive personalities in major cities and desired destinations worldwide.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
BETHESDA, Md., Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) announced today that it will expand its green hotel portfolio ten-fold over the next five years by introducing a green hotel prototype that will be pre-certified LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), an internationally recognized green building certification system designed by the U.S. Green Building...
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