Marriott's 'QuickGroup' Online Booking Provides Instant Rates and Availability
for Small Groups
BETHESDA, Md., June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Want a convenient way to compare
room prices and hotel locations for your next small group, even if that is at
1:00 am -- just go to Marriott's QuickGroup booking site on Marriott.com.
The site allows small group customers to enter dates and city locations and
check availability around the world for group room blocks between 10 and 25
rooms for up to seven nights. Customers can compare group room rates at
participating Marriott, Renaissance, JW Marriott, Courtyard, Residence Inn,
SpringHill Suites, Fairfield Inn and TownePlace Suites hotels in a particular
area, making it easy to shop several options and instantly book a block of
rooms online.
Meeting planners and customers have instant access to space dimensions and
floor plans of the hotel's meeting space. Marriott plans to allow meeting and
banquet rooms to be bookable online in the near future. For more information
or to book rooms for small groups, log onto marriottmeetings.com.
This new online booking tool also provides benefits for the bride who
needs to find accommodations for out of town wedding guests and for the
"soccer" parent responsible for organizing the team's out of town tournament
accommodations.
"We sell the way the customer wants to buy and more and more, people,
including small group planners and social business planners want the
convenience of buying online 24 hours a day, seven days a week," said David
Marriott, senior vice president, global sales.
Marriott.com also has electronic tools available to assist meeting
planners in finding the perfect space to fit their needs and budget. These
include space and budget calculators, online rooming and group lists, custom
web pages for groups, and step-by-step guides on everything from planning to
post-meeting follow up.
MARRIOTT INTERNATIONAL, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) is a leading lodging company with
more than 3,000 lodging properties in the United States and 66 other countries
and territories. Marriott International operates and franchises hotels under
the Marriott, JW Marriott, The Ritz-Carlton, Renaissance, Residence Inn,
Courtyard, TownePlace Suites, Fairfield Inn, SpringHill Suites and Bulgari
brand names; develops and operates vacation ownership resorts under the
Marriott Vacation Club, Horizons by Marriott Vacation Club, The Ritz-Carlton
Club and Grand Residences by Marriott brands; operates Marriott Executive
Apartments; provides furnished corporate housing through its Marriott
ExecuStay division; and operates conference centers. The company is
headquartered in Bethesda, Md., and had approximately 151,000 employees at
2007 year-end. It is ranked as the lodging industry's most admired company
and one of the best companies to work for by FORTUNE(R), and has been
recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the 2007
Sustained Excellence Award and Partner of the Year since 2004. In fiscal year
2007, Marriott International reported sales from continuing operations of $13
billion. For more information or reservations, please visit our web site at
www.marriott.com .
SOURCE Marriott International
Gordon Lambourne, +1-301-380-1368, Gordon.Lambourne@marriott.com, or Laurie
Goldstein, +1-301-380-5296, Laurie.Goldstein@marriott.com, both of Marriott
International
