NEW YORK — Marriott International Inc. turned a better-than-expected profit in its fourth quarter driven by an increased number of rooms in the hotel company’s portfolio and higher occupancy and room rates. The company, based in Bethesda, said Tuesday that ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Annapolis hoteliers said bad weather and cuts in government travel allowances have reduced the number of visitors staying downtown. But some of the loss, they said, is from groups that have been taking their reunions and other gatherings ...

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Greenbrier resort is buying one of the nation’s oldest golf courses after it failed to sell at auction over the summer, the resort’s owner told The Associated Press on Friday. Greenbrier owner Jim Justice confirmed the ...

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BETHESDA — Room rates continued to climb during Host Hotels & Resorts’ third quarter and occupancy improved as the lodging real estate investment trust’s funds from operations climbed 12 percent. Funds from operations rose to $127 million, or 17 cents ...

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Marriott International Inc., of Bethesda, said it completed the transaction with Nashville, Tenn.-based Gaylord Entertainment Co., now Ryman Hospitality Properties Inc., first announced on May 31, to acquire the Gaylord brand and hotel management company for $210 million. Ryman will ...

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WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia can collect sales taxes on the rates hotel guests pay for rooms they book through online travel companies, a judge has ruled. The city has been collecting taxes on the wholesale rates that the ...

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Affordable apartments for seniors being developed by D.C. Archdiocese Construction has started on Victory Court, a mixed-income senior community that will bring 86 apartments to downtown Rockville. The property is being developed by the Archdiocese of Washington’s nonprofit affordable housing ...

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FREDERICK — A state-funded study concludes that conditions are favorable for a proposed hotel and conference center in downtown Frederick. The Frederick News-Post reported Thursday on the study commissioned by the city and the Maryland Stadium Authority. It concludes that ...

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NEW YORK — Marriott International Inc. is betting that it can grow earnings this year through higher bookings and rates despite slowing growth overseas The Bethesda-based hotel company raised its profit expectation for the full year but reined in its ...

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Greenbelt has dismissed a lawsuit that accused Marriott International of a slow response to a suicide bomb attack that killed more than 50 people at a Pakistan hotel. The lawsuit was brought last June ...

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