Inside Marriott's 1,000-Hotel Tech Cutover (and What's Different from Hilton's Approach)

The mezzanine of the Marriott Marquis Times Square, a notebook open beside a cold latte, the lobby check-in screens glowing in the morning light

Marriott just crossed 1,000 hotels on its new tech ecosystem and is staging a phased natural-language search rollout by end of Q2. The build-with-vendors model is structurally different from Hilton's pure-partner stack — and the fee economics already prove it's monetizing.

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