{"id":122796,"date":"2016-09-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/marriott-international-completes-acquisition-of-starwood-hotels-resorts-worldwide\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:03:05","slug":"marriott-international-completes-acquisition-of-starwood-hotels-resorts-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/marriott-international-completes-acquisition-of-starwood-hotels-resorts-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriott International Completes Acquisition of Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On September 23, Marriott International announced that it has completed the acquisition of Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Worldwide, for which it paid over $13 billion.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The hotel chain created following the Starwood acquisition is the largest in the world, featuring 30 distinct brands and approximately 5,700 hotels with a total of 1.1 million rooms in over 110 countries.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>According to Marriott, the integration of Starwood&#8217;s activities, a process for which it estimates it will record special expenses of $140 million, will result in lower costs by $250 million\/year.<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profit.ro\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Profit<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>What was the total value of the Marriott-Starwood acquisition?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marriott International paid over $13 billion to acquire Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Worldwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many hotels does the combined company operate?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The combined entity operates approximately 5,700 hotels with 1.1 million rooms across 110 countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the projected financial benefits of the merger?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marriott expects the integration to generate annual cost savings of approximately $250 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 23, Marriott International announced that it has completed the acquisition of Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts Worldwide, for which it paid over $13 billion.&nbsp; The hotel chain created following the Starwood acquisition is the largest in the world, featuring 30 distinct brands and approximately 5,700 hotels with a total of 1.1 million rooms in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":66301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2852],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-122796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotels-restaurants"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/hotelieri-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122796"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=122796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}