Diversity & Inclusion - Global Regions

Marriott helps all who travel to take their goals further with new technology, warm hospitality, and exciting choices across 18 brands expanding our cultural diversity.

This includes a longstanding presence in Canada and in Mexico, which continues to be one of the company’s most successful international markets, a commitment to focus on hotel designs and services suitable for Brazilian travelers, and current development of 10 hotels in other parts of Latin America.

In Europe, Marriott has 180 hotels and plans to double its presence by 2015. This will be fuelled in part by a joint venture with AC Hotels to manage and franchise AC Hotels by Marriott in Spain, Italy, and Portugal. The company has also committed itself to an increasing sales focus in Russia, and reached agreements to open new hotels in France, Germany, and Poland.

As Marriott grows, our community ties deepen, aligning with issues that are important to the people who live where we operate hotels in all corners of the globe. In international markets such as the Middle East, growing wealth is creating more travelers and providing greater new hotel development opportunities. In China, Marriott’s largest market outside North America, the company aims to more than double its presence to 120 hotels by 2015. In India, we expect to grow from 12 to 100 hotels across seven brands by 2015.

 

Evolving Our Goals Worldwide

At Marriott, we know that it is essential for our leaders to truly embrace and understand different cultures.

Evolving our diversity and inclusion goals to support global growth is a business imperative for Marriott. Approximately 36 percent of our rooms pipeline and two-thirds of our 42,000 rooms under construction are outside the United States.

To support this rapid growth, the company has opened new development offices in Africa, Brazil, and India which are all staffed by local professionals who fully understand the cultural norms and practices of their respective markets.

 

Marriott has launched a portfolio of tools and resources that will enable us to build cultural competence throughout the company worldwide. An essential component of this learning focuses on enabling associates to understand their own backgrounds and beliefs and how they influence their interaction with others.

The company has also ramped up its language skills and cultural awareness tools offerings, making Rosetta Stone®, Sed de Saber™ and the Cultural Wizard available for no or low cost to all associates. More than 10,000 associates have now enrolled in language programs.

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