• Marriott reports surprise profit, says travel demand is improving

    Marriott reports surprise profit, says travel demand is improving

    More consumers are traveling now than in the early months of the pandemic, which fueled a surprise quarterly profit for the largest hotel company in the world. Marriott International, whose 7,600
  • Marriott to lay off 17 percent of corporate staff

    Marriott to lay off 17 percent of corporate staff

    Marriott plans to lay off 17 percent of its corporate workforce next month as the coronavirus continues to take a heavy toll on the hotel industry. The Bethesda, Maryland-based company confirmed Wednesday that it will lay off 673 workers late next month. Marriott has around 4,000 employees at its corporate headquarters. Marriott furloughed two-thirds of …
  • Marriott says Trump ordered stop to Cuba hotel business

    Marriott says Trump ordered stop to Cuba hotel business

    The Trump administration has ordered Marriott International to wind down hotel operations in Communist-run Cuba, a company spokeswoman told Reuters, extinguishing what had been a symbol of the US-Cuban detente. Starwood Hotels, now owned by Marriott, four years ago became the first US hotel company to sign a deal with Cuba since the 1959 revolution …
  • Another Marriott data breach exposes info of 5.2 million guests

    Another Marriott data breach exposes info of 5.2 million guests

    Marriott is probing its second major data breach in just over a year — one that may have exposed personal information for millions of hotel guests, the company said. The breach — the third Marriott has reported in less than two years — potentially exposed the names, addresses, birth dates, loyalty account details and other …