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Marriott International's headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. Marriott International is the largest hotel company in the world by the number of available rooms. It has 36 brands with 8,785 properties containing 1,597,380 rooms in 141 countries and territories. [1]
In 1987, Marriott sold the Big Boy restaurants franchise rights to Elias Brothers for an undisclosed amount while keeping 208 company-owned Bob's Big Boy restaurants in California and selected locations on the East Coast. [27] In 1988, Marriott purchased all 91 Wag's restaurants from Walgreens Corporation, [28] but dissolved the chain in 1991.
In 2018, Marriott began managing the garden wing of the hotel as a Marriott, while the palace wing is planned to be transformed into a JW Marriott. [42] [43] Cardiff, United Kingdom: The Cardiff Marriott Hotel is located near the Cardiff Central Library. Marriott began managing the hotel in 1992, prior to which it was operated as a Holiday Inn ...
John Willard Marriott Sr. (September 17, 1900 – August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), the parent company of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains, and food services companies.
Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, a timeshare company, formerly a division of Marriott International; Host Marriott Corporation, lodging real estate investment trust, now known as Host Hotels & Resorts. HMSHost, operator of airport concession services, spun off from Host Marriott Corporation
Sheraton Hotels and Resorts is an American international hotel chain owned by Marriott International.As of June 30, 2020, Sheraton operates 446 hotels with 155,617 rooms globally, including locations in North America, Africa, Asia Pacific, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean, in addition to 84 hotels with 23,092 rooms in the pipeline.
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Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation is a pure-play public timeshare company. [2] Formerly a division of Marriott International , Marriott Vacations Worldwide was established as a separate, publicly traded entity focusing primarily on vacation ownership in November 2011. [ 3 ]