Richard marriott host hotels

International hotel company in Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. is an American real estate investment trust that invests in hotels.

As of December 31, , the company owned 77 upscale hotels containing approximately 42, rooms in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.^[1] The company, based in Bethesda, Maryland, is listed on Nasdaq, and is a component of the Nasdaq Financial and the S&P indices.

History

In , John Willard Marriott and his wife Alice opened a root beer stand in Washington, D.C. that they named “The Hot Shoppe,” which later became a public company.^[2] In , Hot Shoppes, Inc.

expanded into the lodging business with the opening of its first hotel in Arlington, Virginia, and in , the company was renamed Marriott Corporation.^[2]

In , the Van Noy Brothers of Kansas City, Missouri, formed Van Noy Railway News and Hotel Company to operate news stands along the Missouri Pacific