{"id":10376,"date":"2020-06-02T16:24:15","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T08:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hdeexpo.com\/?p=10376"},"modified":"2021-09-09T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:20:09","slug":"marriott-opens-all-hotels-in-china-sees-steady-u-s-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdeexpo.com\/en\/marriott-opens-all-hotels-in-china-sees-steady-u-s-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott Opens All Hotels in China, Sees Steady U.S. Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Marriott Opens All Hotels in China, Sees Steady U.S. Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t Marriott International has reopened all its hotels in China and is seeing a steady recovery in the United States, its biggest market, Chief Executive Officer Arne Sorenson said on Monday.<\/p> Shares of the hotel operator, which owns the Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis luxury brands, rose as much as 8.1% to USD95.64 in afternoon trading after Sorenson said the occupancy rate in China was 40% currently, up from 7% to 8% in February, when COVID-19 started spreading.<\/p> \u201cIt\u2019s not just leisure travel growing, but it is business travel. Chinese are flying again,\u201d Sorenson said at a Goldman Sachs conference.<\/p> In the United States, Marriott\u2019s hotels that remained open crossed the 20% occupancy threshold and continue to see an improvement, Sorenson said.<\/p> \u201cThe (U.S.) hotels that are performing strongest are those that are most dependent on drive to business.\u201d<\/p> The company had an occupancy rate of about 12% in North America in April, with 16% of its hotels closed temporarily.<\/p> However, Sorenson warned that it could take Marriott a few years to get back to levels of occupancy seen in 2019, when its global occupancy rate was 71%.<\/p>