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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
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