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Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational public largest global timeshare hospitality company. J. Willard Marriott and his wife Alice Marriott founded the Company; Marriott International, Inc. was formed in 1993. Today Marriott International has 8,100+ hotel properties and 31 top hotel brands in 138 countries and territories.
- John Willard Marriott founded Marriott Corporation in 1927 when he and his wife, Alice Marriott, opened a root beer stand in Washington; D.C The Company opened its first hotel, the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel, in Arlington, Virginia, on January 16, 1957, in the car. Its second hotel, the Key Bridge Marriott in Rosslyn, Arlington, Virginia, was opened in 1959. In 1927 John Willard Marriott named the restaurant Hot Shoppes and watched as it grew in popularity, Hot Shoppes, Inc. was renamed the Marriott Corporation in 1967.
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