The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to implement a comprehensive security program. This plan is part of a proposed settlement order regarding the FTC’s charges that three large data breaches from 2014 to 2020 resulted from...
There are many truisms about the B2B landscape, and they mostly center around better payments. After all, the ongoing digital transformation reshaping the B2B marketplace is increasingly defined by businesses moving away from paper checks and manual processes toward electronic payment methods, while B2B payment...
Marriott International saw its revenue per available room (RevPAR) increase 4.2% year-over-year during the first quarter, driven largely by growth in international markets. The hotel chain saw its RevPAR grow 1.5% in the United States and Canada and 11.1% in international markets, according to a Wednesday (May 1) earnings release....
Marriott International’s loyalty program, Marriott Bonvoy, is now enabling members to redeem points to see a concert on Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. Eligible members can also enter a sweepstakes for a chance to see one of the stops of the tour, Marriott said in...
January 29, 2020
Certain things will never change when it comes to travel and hospitality. Consumers will always want clean rooms, punctual flights and polite staff. Even so, significant changes, many brought about by younger consumers and increasingly digital operations, are producing shifts in the hospitality industry — shifts that are cementing the bonds of connected commerce, promising to […]
December 20, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has finalized an order requiring Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to implement a comprehensive information security program. This final order settles the FTC’s charges announced in October that the companies deceived customers by claiming to have reasonable data security, when in fact they did not, the FTC said […]
October 09, 2024
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) plans to require Marriott International and its subsidiary Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide to implement a comprehensive security program. This plan is part of a proposed settlement order...
May 01, 2024
Marriott International saw its revenue per available room (RevPAR) increase 4.2% year-over-year during the first quarter, driven largely by growth in international markets. The hotel chain saw its RevPAR grow 1.5% in the...
February 27, 2024
Marriott International’s loyalty program, Marriott Bonvoy, is now enabling members to redeem points to see a concert on Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. Eligible members can also enter a sweepstakes...
