Kohli: Senior living is far more fragmented than the hotel industry
“Obviously the Brookdales and those would be like seven, 800 facilities or homes, but I would say it is a very long tail industry. So it's not like, it's definitely not like how hotel industry of like, Hey, Marriott or Hilton, two or three have like consolidate…”
Neumann: Hilton and Marriott Own Less Than 1% of Their Hotel Properties
“You take Hilton and Marriott where they started by owning a lot of it. And today if I'm not mistaken, listen, we're talking about thousands of properties, less than one percent owned.”
Marriott owns the domain Hampton.com
“And also Hampton.com, I don't think I'm ever going to get. You know who owns that? It's Marriott.”
Linnartz helped grow the Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program to 180 million members
“It started many decades ago, right, and we grew it into this hundred and eighty million member program.”
Resnick: Major hotel chains have shifted from property management to franchising
“The hotel companies themselves have evolved. They started off as hotel owners, like Marriott and Hilton and so forth. First, they were hotel owners. Then they were managing hotels for third parties. Then they really became franchisors. They have wonderfully po…”
Sternlicht: Marriott lobbied Washington to outlaw Starwood's paired-share REIT structure
“Bill Marriott had been at this for
40 years, and I've been at it for three.
He decided that this enough is enough, and they're gonna get rid of our paired share structure.
So he went to Washington, and in the budget reconciliation bill of that year, they threw…”
Volpi: Traditional enterprises remain clueless about extracting value from data
“There are millions of businesses out there, even the big ones that I just cited, like somebody like American Airlines or Marriott Hotels, and I hope I don't insult anybody in the room, are clueless on how to get insights out of their data.”
Kaufman: Keyless access adoption is constrained by physical replacement cycles, not tech
“The problem with all these technologies, the technology exists, and really the period we're in right now is a period of waiting for everyone to adopt the technology and go through these cycles of building new hotels, or changing out the doors in, in the 500,00…”
Enplug provides white-label branding for clients like WeWork and Marriott
“Cause a lot of our customers want to have these enterprise features that are, you know, instead of saying powered by in plug with most of our screens say, you can have the option of saying, you know, powered by we work or powered by Marriott.”
Brand-Owned Content Studios From GoPro, Marriott, and Pepsi Will Accelerate
“And we've now seen that GoPro is going that same direction. You're seeing Marriott Hotels, of all things, has just significantly financed its own studios to do exactly the same thing, and Pepsi is making those noises, and so that is a trend that I absolutely s…”