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Marriott International

Experimenting
  • Hotels
  • ~414,000 associates
  • Copilot for staff
  • Ask Bonvoy beta (Jun 2026)
  • 2,000+ hotels on new systems
  • No AI results reported

Marriott International has reported no business return it credits to AI and no count of employees using its AI tools. Colin Coleman, SVP of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, said in Jun 2026 that Marriott sorts its AI into three tiers: Microsoft Copilot, which Skift reported had been rolled out to nearly every employee, possibly excluding hotel associates; low-code tools for teams; and larger systems such as sales and contact center AI and the Ask Bonvoy search beta. Marriott had moved 2,000+ hotels onto new core systems by Aug 2026.

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Their approach to AI

The platform
Marriott International runs Microsoft Copilot for employees, low-code tools for teams and its own production systems, Colin Coleman said in Jun 2026, and Skift reported that Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, which may not include hotel associates; Global CIO Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott is building a model-agnostic AI chassis for guests, associates and owners, and Ask Bonvoy runs on what Marriott calls proprietary AI architecture.
The models
Marriott International calls its AI chassis model-agnostic and has not named the models behind Ask Bonvoy or its sales and contact center tools; employees use Microsoft Copilot (Jun 2026), the RENAI concierge pilot drew on ChatGPT (Dec 2023), and Google and OpenAI are distribution partners.
The reach
Marriott International has not published how many employees can use Microsoft Copilot or how many do; Skift reported in Jun 2026, after a talk by Colin Coleman, that Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, without saying whether that covers hotel associates (Marriott employs about 148,000 people and manages about 414,000 associates in all). Ask Bonvoy reached a subset of Marriott Bonvoy members in U.S. English from Jun 2026.
The catch
Marriott International reports no return it credits to AI and no count of employees using its AI tools: Skift reported in Jun 2026 that Marriott's larger AI systems were starting to deliver revenue and cost savings, and Anthony Capuano said sales AI will be judged on conversion and hotel revenue, but Marriott has published no figures.

Snapshot

Employees
~414,000 associates
Year-end 2025: about 148,000 employed by Marriott and 266,000 employed by hotel owners with employment managed by Marriott (2025 Form 10-K)
Technology budget
Not disclosed
About 25% of $1.25B to $1.35B of 2026 investment spending goes to the digital tech transformation and corporate systems (Aug 2026); capital and technology expenditures were $604M in 2025
AI/ML headcount
Not disclosed
Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad, announced Oct 2024, adds to the global technology team
Who owns AI
SVP Colin Coleman
Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI (Jun 2026); EVP and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer Drew Pinto leads digital and IT strategy, Global CIO Naveen Manga leads IT
Platform
Microsoft Copilot plus in-house systems
Copilot for staff (nearly every employee per Skift, hotel associates unclear); a model-agnostic AI chassis in build (May 2026); Ask Bonvoy on proprietary AI architecture
Models
Model-agnostic; not disclosed
Microsoft Copilot for staff; the RENAI concierge pilot drew on ChatGPT (Dec 2023); Google and OpenAI are distribution partners
Reach
Not disclosed by Marriott
Skift reported Copilot rolled out to nearly every employee (Jun 2026), which may not include hotel associates and is not a usage count; Ask Bonvoy beta for a subset of members from Jun 2026
Use cases
Sales, contact centers, events, search, front desk
Named by Anthony Capuano (May 2026) and Naveen Manga (Jun 2025, May 2026), plus marketing, pre-arrival messages, engineering and recruiting

Key findings

  1. Colin Coleman, Marriott International's Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, described three tiers of AI on Jun 3, 2026: Microsoft Copilot, which Skift reported had been rolled out to nearly every employee without saying whether that includes hotel associates; low-code and no-code tools that teams build with; and larger AI systems aimed at revenue and cost savings.

  2. Anthony Capuano said on May 6, 2026 that Marriott International is implementing a unified enterprise-wide generative AI strategy and already uses AI in a business transient sales tool, real-time call assistance in its customer engagement centers, event planning tools, marketing campaign assistance and pre-arrival guest messages; Global CIO Naveen Manga called 2026 a year for scale that month.

  3. Marriott International began a beta of Ask Bonvoy, a conversational search grounded only in Marriott-owned property data, on Jun 16, 2026 for a subset of Marriott Bonvoy members in U.S. English across about 10,000 properties, and was one of ten launch partners when Google opened hotel booking in AI Mode on Aug 27, 2026.

  4. Marriott International moved more than 2,000 select-service hotels in the U.S. and Canada onto its new reservations, property management and loyalty systems by Aug 2026, a replacement its 2026 proxy says will let it make better use of AI, and about 25% of its $1.25 billion to $1.35 billion of 2026 investment spending goes to that program and corporate systems.

  5. Marriott International has reported no business return it credits to AI as of Oct 2026, and Anthony Capuano gave no figures when an analyst asked on the May 6, 2026 call how to judge its AI work; the more than $90 million of above-property cost savings it reported for 2025 came from an enterprise-wide productivity initiative that Marriott did not credit to AI, and Marriott has published no count of employees using its AI tools.

Where Marriott sits

Stage
Experimenting

Marriott International has reported no business return it credits to AI as of Oct 2026: Anthony Capuano said on the May 6, 2026 call that sales AI will be judged on conversion rates and hotel revenue but gave no figures, Skift's Jun 2026 report that Marriott's larger AI systems were starting to deliver revenue and cost savings carried none, and the more than $90 million of above-property cost savings in 2025 came from an enterprise-wide productivity initiative that Marriott did not credit to AI. Marriott International has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a count of employees using its tools; the only reach figure is Skift's account, after a talk by SVP Colin Coleman, that Microsoft Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, a trade-press paraphrase with no usage count that may not cover hotel associates. That leaves Marriott International at Experimenting although AI runs in production in sales, contact centers, front desks and search; one cost, revenue or headcount return it credits to AI, or a stated count of employees using its AI tools under a named owner such as Coleman, would move it to Piloting.

How the stages are defined
Ownership
SVP Colin Coleman leads enterprise data, analytics and AI; EVP Drew Pinto leads digital and IT strategy
Platform
Hybrid: Microsoft Copilot for staff; in-house Ask Bonvoy and a model-agnostic AI chassis
Models
Model-agnostic by design; Microsoft Copilot for staff; Ask Bonvoy models not disclosed
Hosting
Not disclosed; Copilot is a Microsoft service, Skift cites a Google Cloud partnership, and personal data stays inside Marriott
Reach
Copilot for staff, nearly every employee per Skift (Jun 2026), hotel associates unclear; Ask Bonvoy beta for some members

How they deploy

One generative AI strategy across the enterprise

Anthony Capuano said in May 2026 that Marriott International's focus is a unified enterprise-wide generative AI strategy serving associates, guests and owners, and named regional and headquarters functions such as legal and global finance as further opportunities. Global CIO Naveen Manga said the same month that 2025 had been a year of experimentation, learning and piloting, that 2026 is a year for scale, and that Marriott runs its AI work as one portfolio across guests, associates and owners. Capuano said in Aug 2026 that Marriott is using AI across the company to deliver revenue to owners more efficiently, improve the guest experience and automate workflows for associates.

Three tiers of AI

Colin Coleman, Marriott International's Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, told the Skift Data + AI Summit on Jun 3, 2026 that Marriott sorts its AI into three tiers: Microsoft Copilot, which Skift reported had been rolled out to nearly every employee, a figure that may not include hotel associates; low-code and no-code tools at the team level; and larger production systems aimed at revenue or cost savings. Skift reported that Marriott had moved past pilots and the build of its operating systems into a third phase of its AI rollout, and that Coleman sees rethinking the workflows underneath as the harder work.

Core systems first

Marriott International is replacing its central reservations, property management and loyalty platforms in a multi-year digital and technology transformation, which Alex Pyhan's company biography describes as a move to modern core cloud-enabled systems. Anthony Capuano said in Feb 2026 that the program had moved from development into deployment, starting with select-service hotels because they are less complex; Marriott's 1,000th hotel switched on May 5, 2026, and more than 2,000 had switched by Aug 2026. Marriott's 2026 proxy statement says the new stack will let Marriott better use AI.

A model-agnostic chassis grounded in Marriott's data

Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott International is building a horizontal protocol and model-agnostic AI chassis as the foundation for its AI use cases for guests, associates and owners, and that Marriott does not plan to expose personal data to a model outside its enterprise. Skift's Jun 2026 preview of Colin Coleman's talk said every generative AI tool inside Marriott draws on one connected layer linking customer, property and owner data. Marriott built Ask Bonvoy on what it calls proprietary AI architecture and grounds its answers only in Marriott-owned, verified property data rather than open web content (Jun 2026).

Direct bookings as AI search grows

Anthony Capuano said in Feb 2026 that AI could redefine the customer acquisition model the hotel industry has used for decades, and that Marriott International is optimizing its content for generative AI services so its hotels appear wherever travelers search. Capuano said in May 2026 that Marriott's scale, reviews and real-time rates give it a content and search advantage, and told a Bank of America investor conference on Sep 9, 2026 that distribution is where AI will have its biggest effect on the industry and that Marriott feeds Google and OpenAI as much content about its portfolio as it can. Marriott's 2025 Form 10-K warns that AI at online travel agents and new intermediaries could divert bookings and raise distribution costs.

Test with a brand, a partner or a hotel tier first

Marriott International tends to try new technology in a narrow slice before a wider launch: Renaissance Hotels piloted the RENAI concierge at three U.S. hotels in Dec 2023, Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy tested a generative AI search built with Publicis Sapient in Mar 2024, the front desk room assignment tool took time to get right before its Jun 2025 deployment, Skift reported, and Ask Bonvoy started as a beta for a subset of members in Jun 2026.

Deployment model
Marriott International runs technology centrally under EVP and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer Drew Pinto, who leads global sales and support channels, revenue management, digital and IT strategy; Global CIO Naveen Manga leads IT strategy and platform modernization, Colin Coleman leads enterprise data, analytics and AI, and Chief Digital and Transformation Officer Alex Pyhan leads the core systems overhaul. Marriott International gives employees Microsoft Copilot, lets teams build with low-code tools, and ships larger AI systems through Marriott.com and the Marriott Bonvoy apps, its sales teams, its 19 customer engagement centers and hotel front desks; Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that engineering teams use AI across the software development life cycle. Hotel owners generally pay for centralized programs such as reservations and loyalty, so Marriott expects the overwhelming portion of its technology transformation spending to be reimbursed over time (2025 Form 10-K). The Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad, Marriott's first global capability center, was announced in Oct 2024 to add engineering capacity, next-generation solutions and security capabilities.
Model providers
Marriott International describes its AI chassis as model-agnostic (Naveen Manga, May 2026) and has not named the models behind Ask Bonvoy, which it says runs on proprietary AI architecture (Jun 2026), or behind its sales, contact center, marketing and room assignment tools. Marriott International employees use Microsoft Copilot, which Skift reported in Jun 2026 had been rolled out to nearly every employee, a figure that may not include hotel associates. RENAI by Renaissance, piloted at three U.S. hotels from Dec 2023, drew on ChatGPT and open sources to build a directory of local recommendations vetted by hotel staff, and the Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy generative AI search was developed with Publicis Sapient (Mar 2024). Marriott International's work with Google on AI Mode hotel booking (since Nov 2025) and with OpenAI on its ad pilot program are distribution arrangements; Marriott has not said either company supplies the models in its own tools.
Data and infrastructure
Marriott International is moving its central reservations, property management and loyalty systems to modern core cloud-enabled systems: Amadeus agreed in Nov 2021 to deploy its cloud-based Amadeus Central Reservations System, which it said would ultimately replace Marriott's proprietary reservations system, and Agilysys agreed in Dec 2022 to deploy its cloud-native property management system across Marriott's luxury, premium and select-service hotels in the U.S. and Canada. Marriott has not named the clouds under those systems or its loyalty platform vendor. Skift's Jun 2026 preview of Colin Coleman's talk said every generative AI tool inside Marriott draws on one connected layer of customer, property and owner data and referred to a Google Cloud partnership, which Marriott has not described. Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott does not plan to expose personal data to a model outside its enterprise, and his company biography credits him with a patent-pending composable technology architecture. Ask Bonvoy answers only from Marriott-owned, verified property data, and Marriott Media, the media network Marriott launched in Jun 2025, uses first-party data with 200+ targetable attributes on a consent basis. Marriott's 2025 Form 10-K says greater reliance on cloud services and use of AI increase its exposure to cybersecurity incidents.

Platforms and internal tools

  • Microsoft CopilotBy Jun 2026

    Microsoft Copilot is the general AI assistant Marriott International gives its employees and the first of the three tiers Colin Coleman described at the Skift Data + AI Summit on Jun 3, 2026; Skift reported that Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee. Marriott has not said when the rollout began, whether it includes hotel associates, or how many employees use it.

    Users
    Nearly every employee, per Skift (Jun 2026); hotel associates unclear
    Models
    Microsoft Copilot

    Source

  • Model-agnostic AI chassisIn build (May 2026)

    Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott International is building a horizontal protocol and model-agnostic AI chassis as the foundation for its AI use cases for guests, associates and owners, with guardrails that keep personal data from models outside Marriott's enterprise. Marriott has not named the chassis, its vendors or where it runs.

    Models
    Model-agnostic by design

    Source

  • Ask BonvoyJun 2026 (beta, phased rollout)

    Ask Bonvoy is Marriott International's conversational, natural-language search on Marriott.com and the iOS and Android Marriott Bonvoy apps: it interprets a query, identifies the guest's trip purpose and returns curated properties and amenities such as dining, spa and golf from Marriott-owned, verified property data, then hands off to Marriott's existing booking flow. Marriott plans to add loyalty points-based searches over time and to release Ask Bonvoy globally later in 2026.

    Users
    A subset of Marriott Bonvoy members and new sign-ups, in U.S. English at launch (Jun 2026)
    Models
    Not disclosed; Marriott calls the architecture proprietary

    Source

  • Associate AI tools in sales and serviceBy May 2026

    Anthony Capuano named the AI tools Marriott International's associates already use: a business transient sales tool for sales teams, real-time call assistance and AI desktop assistance in the customer engagement centers, event planning intelligence tools, marketing campaign assistance and AI for pre-arrival guest communications. Marriott has not named the tools' vendors, models or users.

    Source

  • Homes & Villas AI searchMar 2024

    Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy added a generative AI search that lets travelers describe a trip in natural language and returns matching destinations and rentals from more than 140,000 homes, with weather and things to do. Marriott International tested it as part of its broader technology transformation, developed it with Publicis Sapient, and in Jun 2026 described the 2024 natural-language search as launched.

    Models
    Not disclosed; built with Publicis Sapient

    Source

  • RENAI by RenaissanceDec 2023 (pilot)

    RENAI by Renaissance is a virtual concierge, reached by text message or WhatsApp, that combines recommendations from Renaissance Hotels' Navigator staff with a directory built using ChatGPT and open sources and vetted by those Navigators. Renaissance piloted RENAI at three U.S. hotels and planned more than 20 properties globally by Mar 2024; Marriott International has not reported its status since.

    Models
    ChatGPT, with human-vetted picks

    Source

  • Olivia recruiting assistant

    Marriott International's careers site offers Olivia, a recruiting assistant that helps job seekers search openings, answers questions and guides them through applications. The careers site runs on Paradox, which describes Olivia as its AI assistant for hiring.

    Models
    Paradox

    Source

  • New core reservations, property management and loyalty systemsDeployment from early 2026

    Marriott International's multi-year digital and technology transformation replaces its central reservations, property management and loyalty platforms with a new cloud-enabled ecosystem, which Marriott says will add digital retail capabilities for hotels and let it make better use of AI. Chief Digital and Transformation Officer Alex Pyhan leads the program, Amadeus (reservations, agreed Nov 2021) and Agilysys (property management in the U.S. and Canada, agreed Dec 2022) are the named vendors, and Marriott's board technology committee oversees it.

    Users
    2,000+ select-service hotels in the U.S. and Canada (Aug 2026)

    Source

Vendors and partners

  • MicrosoftBy Jun 2026

    Microsoft Copilot, the AI assistant for employees · Skift reported after a talk by Colin Coleman that Microsoft Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every Marriott International employee (Jun 2026), a figure that may not include hotel associates.

  • GoogleNov 2025

    Partner on hotel search and booking inside Google's AI Mode · Anthony Capuano said in Feb 2026 that Marriott International began working with Google in Nov 2025 on a property search experience in which users describe what they want, compare hotels and complete the booking through AI Mode; Marriott was one of ten partners when Google launched hotel booking in AI Mode for English-speaking U.S. users on Aug 27, 2026. Skift referred to a Marriott Google Cloud partnership in Jun 2026 that Marriott has not described.

  • OpenAIDec 2023

    Ad pilot program participant; ChatGPT behind the RENAI pilot · RENAI by Renaissance drew on ChatGPT in Dec 2023, and Anthony Capuano said in May 2026 that Marriott International is one of the first travel participants in OpenAI's ad pilot program.

  • Publicis SapientMar 2024

    Co-developer of the Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy AI search

  • Paradox

    Runs Marriott's careers site and its Olivia recruiting assistant · Marriott International's careers site loads from Paradox's platform and offers Olivia for job search, questions and applications (checked Nov 1, 2026).

  • AmadeusNov 2021

    Cloud-based central reservations system · Amadeus announced on Nov 18, 2021 an agreement to deploy the Amadeus Central Reservations System, which it said would ultimately replace Marriott International's proprietary reservations system; Drew Pinto discussed the transition to Amadeus at Skift's Jun 2024 summit.

  • AgilysysDec 2022

    Cloud-native property management system for U.S. and Canada hotels · Agilysys announced on Dec 15, 2022 an agreement to deploy its property management system across Marriott International's luxury, premium and select-service hotels in the U.S. and Canada over the coming years, replacing several proprietary systems.

  • ANSROct 2024

    Supports the Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad

Leadership

AI, data and platform leaders

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Drew Pinto

Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer

Drew Pinto joined Marriott International in 2004 after working at Accenture, and has led global sales and support channels, revenue management, digital and IT strategy since Feb 2023, after running a sales, distribution and revenue management team of more than 6,000 associates. Pinto speaks for Marriott on AI, from his Jun 2024 Skift Data + AI Summit talk to the Ask Bonvoy launch in Jun 2026, and was named to the Forbes CIO Next 2024 list.

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Naveen Manga

Global Chief Information Officer

Naveen Manga joined Marriott International in 2021 as Global Chief Technology Officer and now leads global IT strategy, platform modernization and transformation as Global CIO. Manga led the creation of a patent-pending composable technology architecture and drove the Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad, described the front desk room assignment AI tool at Skift's Jun 2025 summit, and said in May 2026 that Marriott is building a model-agnostic AI chassis. Daniel Dubowski, appointed CISO in Aug 2026, reports to Manga.

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Colin Coleman

Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI

Colin Coleman leads enterprise data, analytics and AI at Marriott International, and Skift described him in Jun 2026 as Marriott's top data and AI executive. Coleman told the Skift Data + AI Summit on Jun 3, 2026 that Marriott sorts its AI into three tiers, from Microsoft Copilot, which Skift reported had been rolled out to nearly every employee (possibly excluding hotel associates), to larger systems aimed at revenue and cost savings, and argued that a connected layer of customer, property and owner data matters more than the volume of data. Marriott has not published a biography of Coleman or his reporting line.

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Alex Pyhan

Chief Digital and Transformation Officer

Alex Pyhan leads Marriott International's multi-year digital and technology transformation, which moves reservations, property management and loyalty onto modern cloud-enabled systems. Pyhan joined Marriott's global sales organization in 2003 and was previously Senior Vice President of Global Distribution, where he negotiated Marriott's wholesale distribution deal with Expedia.

Executives

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Anthony Capuano

President and Chief Executive Officer

Anthony Capuano joined Marriott International in 1995, led global development for more than a decade, became CEO in Feb 2021 and was additionally named President in Feb 2023. Capuano sets out Marriott's AI plans on earnings calls and at investor conferences, including the unified enterprise-wide generative AI strategy and the AI tools he listed in May 2026, and introduced Ask Bonvoy in Jun 2026.

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Jennifer Mason

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jennifer Mason became CFO of Marriott International in Feb 2026, succeeding Leeny Oberg, after serving as Global Officer, Treasurer and Risk Management from 2022 and CFO for U.S. and Canada from 2016. Mason joined Marriott in 1992, earlier held the post of senior vice president, IT Business Partnership and Planning, and reports the progress and cost of the digital tech transformation to investors.

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Peggy Roe

Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer

Peggy Roe has been Marriott International's Chief Customer Officer since Feb 2023, overseeing global consumer strategy including Marriott Bonvoy, after serving as Global Officer for Customer Experience, Loyalty and New Ventures. Roe launched Marriott Media, Marriott's first-party data media network, in Jun 2025.

Board

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Margaret McCarthy

Director; Chair, Technology and Information Security Oversight Committee

Margaret McCarthy has been a Marriott International director since 2019 and chairs the board committee that oversees the digital and technology transformation and reviews how AI, large language models and machine learning are or may be built into Marriott's operations. McCarthy was previously EVP of Operations and Technology at Aetna and Aetna's CIO.

AI org map

Central technology under the Chief Revenue & Technology Officer, an enterprise data, analytics and AI team, and AI put to work in sales, contact centers, front desks and digital channels

Marriott International has no chief AI officer; Colin Coleman, Senior Vice President of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, is its senior data and AI executive. Drew Pinto, an executive officer since Feb 2023, leads global sales and support channels, revenue management, digital and IT strategy; Global CIO Naveen Manga leads IT strategy and platform modernization, and Chief Digital and Transformation Officer Alex Pyhan leads the multi-year systems overhaul. Chief Customer Officer Peggy Roe owns consumer strategy, loyalty and Marriott Media, and a board committee chaired by Margaret McCarthy oversees technology, the transformation and AI strategy.

Marriott International does not disclose how many people work on AI, data or technology. Technology sits in Drew Pinto's revenue and technology organization, which also covers global sales and revenue management, with Naveen Manga leading IT, Colin Coleman leading enterprise data, analytics and AI, and Alex Pyhan leading the core systems overhaul. Marriott announced its first global capability center, the Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad, in Oct 2024 as an expansion of its global technology team supporting infrastructure, engineering capacity, next-generation solutions and security, with ANSR's support. Marriott's 19 customer engagement centers, where AI call assistance is rolling out, have more than 6,000 associates, according to Frid Edmond's company biography.

Reporting lines

  • President and CEO

    Anthony Capuano

    • Revenue and Technology

      Drew Pinto, EVP and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer

      Global sales and support channels, revenue management, digital and IT strategy; executive officer in the 2025 Form 10-K, line to the CEO inferred

      • Global Information Technology

        Naveen Manga, Global CIO

        IT strategy, platform modernization and the Marriott Tech Accelerator; line to Drew Pinto inferred from remits, not published

        • Global Information Security

          Daniel Dubowski, SVP and CISO

          Appointed Aug 2026 after the previous CISO left in Feb 2026; reports to Global CIO Naveen Manga (Hotel Dive)

      • Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI

        Colin Coleman, SVP

        Copilot, team tools and production AI systems; reporting line not published, placed under Drew Pinto's digital and IT remit by inference

      • Digital and Technology Transformation

        Alex Pyhan, Chief Digital and Transformation Officer

        New cloud-enabled reservations, property management and loyalty systems; line to Drew Pinto inferred, not published

      • Customer Engagement Centers

        Frid Edmond, SVP

        19 centers and more than 6,000 associates; line inferred from Drew Pinto's remit over sales and support channels

    • Customer, Loyalty and Marriott Media

      Peggy Roe, EVP and Chief Customer Officer

      Executive officer in the 2025 Form 10-K, line to the CEO inferred

      • Marketing, Data Activation and Personalization

        Chris Norton, SVP

        Also General Manager of Marriott Media (Jun 2025); reporting line inferred

    • Finance

      Jennifer Mason, EVP and CFO

  • Technology and Information Security Oversight Committee

    Margaret McCarthy, Chair

    Board committee; met four times in 2025

Marriott International does not publish an org chart. The 2025 Form 10-K lists Drew Pinto and Peggy Roe as executive officers and says an interim information security leader would report to the Global Chief Information Officer after the CISO left in late Feb 2026; Hotel Dive reported in Aug 2026 that the new CISO, Daniel Dubowski, reports to Naveen Manga. The lines from Naveen Manga, Colin Coleman, Alex Pyhan and Frid Edmond to Drew Pinto are inferred from their remits. The 10-K also says management committees that include direct reports of the CEO set policy for, and govern, the information security, data privacy and AI programs.

Named people

Executive sponsors
  • Anthony Capuano

    President and Chief Executive Officer

  • Jennifer Mason

    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer · Formerly senior vice president, IT Business Partnership and Planning

  • Peggy Roe

    Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer

Technology, digital and transformation

Headcount not disclosed; the Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad was announced in Oct 2024.

  • Drew Pinto

    Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer

  • Naveen Manga

    Global Chief Information Officer

  • Alex Pyhan

    Chief Digital and Transformation Officer

Data, analytics and AI

Headcount not disclosed.

  • Colin Coleman

    Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI · Described Marriott's three tiers of AI at the Skift Data + AI Summit (Jun 2026)

Information security
Customer engagement centers
More than 6,000 associates in 19 centers (company biography)
  • Frid Edmond

    Senior Vice President, Customer Engagement Centers · The centers are rolling out AI desktop and real-time call assistance (May 2026)

Customer data and personalization
  • Chris Norton

    SVP, Marketing, Data Activation & Personalization; General Manager, Marriott Media · Role as announced in Jun 2025

Brand and business AI pilots
  • Jennifer Hsieh

    Vice President, Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy · Introduced the Homes & Villas AI search in Mar 2024; current role not confirmed

  • Eddie Schneider

    Global Brand Director, Renaissance Hotels · Announced the RENAI pilot in Dec 2023; current role not confirmed

Board oversight
  • Margaret McCarthy

    Chair, Technology and Information Security Oversight Committee

Use cases

Marriott International has not published a count of its AI use cases; Anthony Capuano named AI in sales, contact center call assistance, event planning, marketing campaigns and pre-arrival guest messages in May 2026, Naveen Manga described AI in front desk room assignment (Jun 2025) and software engineering (May 2026), and Marriott runs the Ask Bonvoy search beta, natural-language search on Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy and a recruiting assistant on its careers site. Marriott International reports no business return for any AI use case and no firm-level return from AI; Capuano said sales AI will be judged on conversion rates and hotel revenue.

Use caseAreaStatusROI
Ask Bonvoy conversational search

Ask Bonvoy lets Marriott Bonvoy members search for stays by trip purpose, place and amenities in plain language on Marriott.com and the Bonvoy apps, answering only from Marriott-owned property data and handing off to the existing booking flow; Marriott began a beta in Jun 2026 and called it a phased rollout in Aug 2026.

Digital channelsPilot
Business transient sales tool

Marriott's sales teams use an AI tool for business transient sales, one of the tools Anthony Capuano named in May 2026; Capuano said success will be measured by conversion rates and the direct effect on hotel revenue.

SalesIn production
Real-time call and desktop assistance

Marriott is rolling out AI desktop assistance and real-time call assistance to agents in its customer engagement centers, which handle reservations, customer care and elite member support.

Customer engagement centersIn production
Front desk room assignment

Marriott is deploying an AI tool that automates guest room assignment at the front desk, which Naveen Manga said replaces hours of manual work (Skift, Jun 2025); Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott is evaluating more AI tools for front desk associates.

Hotel operationsIn production
Event planning intelligence and group proposals

Marriott's teams use event planning intelligence tools, and Anthony Capuano said in May 2026 that the new platforms and AI will have their most notable effect on the generation of group requests for proposals (RFPs).

Groups and eventsIn production
Marketing campaign assistance

Marriott uses AI to assist with marketing campaigns, Anthony Capuano said in May 2026, without describing the tool.

MarketingIn production
Pre-arrival guest messages

Marriott uses AI for communications sent to guests before arrival (May 2026).

Guest communicationsIn production
AI in software engineering

Marriott's engineering teams use AI across the software development life cycle, Naveen Manga said in May 2026.

TechnologyIn production
Owner insight platforms

Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott is building platforms that give hotel owners faster insight into hotel operations, as part of its AI work for owners; Marriott has not described the tools.

Owner servicesAnnounced
Generative AI rental search

Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy lets travelers describe the vacation they want, with or without a destination, and suggests destinations and specific homes from more than 140,000 rentals, with weather and local activities.

Homes & Villas by Marriott BonvoyIn production
RENAI virtual concierge

RENAI answers guests' requests for local bars, restaurants and attractions by text message or WhatsApp, mixing Navigator staff picks with a ChatGPT-assisted directory those staff vet; Marriott has not reported its status after the 2023 pilot.

Renaissance HotelsPilot
Olivia recruiting assistant

Olivia, Paradox's AI assistant on Marriott's careers site, helps candidates search jobs, answers their questions and guides them through applications.

Human resourcesIn production
Hotel booking in Google's AI Mode

Marriott has worked with Google since Nov 2025 on hotel booking inside Google's AI Mode, where travelers describe what they want, compare hotels and book; Google launched the feature for English-speaking U.S. users on Aug 27, 2026 with Marriott among ten partners, each acting as merchant of record.

DistributionIn production
Content for AI search and OpenAI's ad pilot

Marriott optimizes its hotel content for generative AI services and is one of the first travel participants in OpenAI's ad pilot program.

DistributionPilot
AI in legal and global finance

Anthony Capuano named regional and headquarters functions such as legal and global finance as areas with a real opportunity for AI in May 2026, without describing tools.

Corporate functionsAnnounced
AI in restaurant and bar operations

Marriott's Future of Food 2027 report, drawing on its properties in Asia Pacific excluding China, says AI supports menu development, marketing, staffing and guest insights, and that all the restaurants and bars surveyed in Thailand use AI in their operations; the report names no tools.

Food and beverage (Asia Pacific)In production

Adoption

Skift reported in Jun 2026, after a talk by Colin Coleman, SVP of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, that Microsoft Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every Marriott International employee; Marriott has not said whether that includes hotel associates (it employs about 148,000 people and manages about 414,000 associates in all) or how many employees use it, and publishes no count of its AI use cases. Marriott's AI moved from brand pilots to its main channels and associate tools: RENAI at three Renaissance hotels in Dec 2023, natural-language search across more than 140,000 Homes & Villas rentals in 2024, a front desk room assignment tool from Jun 2025, AI tools for sales, contact centers, event planning and marketing by May 2026, and Ask Bonvoy on Marriott.com and the Marriott Bonvoy apps from Jun 2026, with a global release planned for later in 2026. Naveen Manga called 2025 a year of experimentation and piloting and 2026 a year for scale. Marriott International's new core systems, which it says will let it use AI better, reached its 1,000th hotel on May 5, 2026 and more than 2,000 select-service hotels by Aug 2026. Marriott's 2025 Form 10-K warns that associates could use AI improperly while doing their jobs.

By the numbers

Employees Microsoft Copilot was rolled out to, per Skift
Nearly all
Skift's report of a talk by Colin Coleman (Jun 3, 2026); not stated by Marriott, may not include hotel associates, and a rollout, not a usage count
Properties Ask Bonvoy searches
~10,000
Beta from Jun 16, 2026 on Marriott.com and the Marriott Bonvoy apps for a subset of members, in U.S. English
Hotels moved to the new core systems
2,000+
Select-service hotels in the U.S. and Canada (Jennifer Mason, Aug 3, 2026); Marriott says the new stack will let it use AI better
Technology share of 2026 investment spending
~25%
Digital tech transformation and corporate systems, out of $1.25B to $1.35B guided (Aug 3, 2026)
Rentals covered by the Homes & Villas AI search
140,000+
Generative AI search test launched Mar 21, 2024
Associates
~414,000
Employment managed by Marriott at year-end 2025, about 148,000 of them Marriott employees (2025 Form 10-K)

Rollout, first pilot to today

  1. Feb 2023

    Marriott International named Drew Pinto EVP and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer, combining global sales, revenue management, digital and IT strategy under one executive.

    2025 Form 10-K

  2. Aug 2023

    CFO Leeny Oberg told CNBC that Marriott International was overhauling its digital commerce systems and discussed how AI can improve the travel journey.

    Marriott News Center

  3. Dec 2023

    Renaissance Hotels began piloting RENAI, an AI virtual concierge drawing on ChatGPT and staff-vetted picks, at three U.S. hotels, with more than 20 properties planned by Mar 2024.

    Marriott News Center

  4. Mar 2024

    Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy began testing a generative AI search, built with Publicis Sapient, across more than 140,000 rental homes.

    Marriott News Center

  5. Jun 2024

    Drew Pinto told Skift's Data + AI Summit that Marriott International's digital transformation was its biggest tech overhaul, and discussed the costs of scaling AI and automating front desk tasks.

    Marriott News Center

  6. Oct 2024

    Marriott International announced the Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad, its first global capability center, expected to open in early 2025.

    Marriott News Center

  7. Jun 2025

    Marriott International was deploying an AI tool that automates front desk room assignment, which Naveen Manga, then Global CTO, described at Skift's Data + AI Summit.

    Skift

  8. Nov 2025

    Marriott International began working with Google to design a property search experience that lets travelers book hotels through Google's AI Mode.

    Q4 2025 earnings call

  9. Feb 2026

    Anthony Capuano said Marriott International's new reservations, property and loyalty systems had moved into deployment at test select-service hotels, and that natural-language search would start on Marriott.com and the Bonvoy app in the first half of 2026.

    Q4 2025 earnings call

  10. May 2026

    Marriott International moved its 1,000th hotel onto the new technology ecosystem, Anthony Capuano listed AI tools in use for sales, contact center call assistance, event planning, marketing and pre-arrival messages, and Naveen Manga called 2026 a year for scale.

    Q1 2026 earnings call

  11. Jun 2026

    Skift reported after Colin Coleman's talk at its Data + AI Summit that Microsoft Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every Marriott International employee, without saying whether that covers hotel associates, and that Marriott's AI rollout had moved past pilots into a third phase.

    Skift

  12. Jun 2026

    Marriott International began a beta of Ask Bonvoy, a conversational AI search across about 10,000 properties, for a subset of Marriott Bonvoy members in U.S. English.

    Marriott News Center

  13. Aug 2026

    Jennifer Mason said more than 2,000 select-service hotels in the U.S. and Canada had moved to Marriott International's new core systems, still the early phases of deployment.

    Q2 2026 earnings call

  14. Aug 2026

    Google launched hotel booking in AI Mode for English-speaking U.S. users with Marriott International among its ten launch partners.

    Skift

Economics & controls

Spend and ROI

Technology budget

Marriott International does not disclose a technology budget or an AI budget. Marriott expects $1.25 billion to $1.35 billion of 2026 investment spending, about 25% of it on the digital tech transformation and corporate systems (Jennifer Mason, Aug 2026), after guiding in Feb 2026 to $1.0 billion to $1.1 billion with 35% to 40% in that bucket. Marriott's capital and technology expenditures were $604 million in 2025 and $750 million in 2024, the 2024 figure including about $200 million for the Sheraton Grand Chicago (2025 Form 10-K), and Mason said in Aug 2026 that transformation spending will fall over time while technology investment continues.

Who pays for the systems

Marriott International expects the overwhelming portion of its technology transformation spending to be reimbursed over time (Aug 2026 Form 10-Q). Hotel owners generally pay for Marriott's centralized programs and services, such as reservations, loyalty and marketing, which Marriott says are not designed to affect its own economics over the long term (2025 Form 10-K).

Reported ROI

Marriott International has not reported a business return from AI for any use case or for the company as a whole as of Oct 2026. Skift reported after Colin Coleman's Jun 2026 talk that Marriott's larger AI systems were starting to deliver revenue and cost savings, and Anthony Capuano said in May 2026 that Marriott will measure its sales AI by conversion rates and the direct effect on hotel revenue and that some AI distribution pilots should bring favorable costs for owners, all without figures. Leeny Oberg credited the more than $90 million of above-property cost savings in 2025 to an enterprise-wide initiative to enhance productivity and did not attribute them to AI.

Headcount

Marriott International managed the employment of about 414,000 associates at year-end 2025, including about 148,000 employed by Marriott and about 115,000 Marriott employees in the U.S. Marriott's general and administrative expenses fell 8% to $870 million in 2025, mainly on $39 million lower compensation costs, and restructuring charges for employee termination benefits were $34 million lower than in 2024; Marriott has not tied either change to AI.

Governance and risk

Management committees

Marriott International's 2025 Form 10-K says management committees that include senior leaders and direct reports of the CEO set policy for and govern its information security, data privacy and AI programs, oversee its AI risk management strategy, and escalate AI issues that arise in the business.

Board oversight

Marriott International's Technology and Information Security Oversight Committee, chaired by Margaret McCarthy, met four times in 2025. The committee reviews how Marriott monitors and may use AI, large language models, machine learning and quantum computing, oversaw the multi-year digital and technology transformation, and discussed Marriott's strategies and policies on AI (2026 proxy statement).

Data boundaries and grounding

Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott International does not plan to expose personal data to a model outside its enterprise and builds guardrails into its AI search conversations. Marriott grounds Ask Bonvoy only in Marriott-owned, verified property data rather than open web content (Jun 2026), and RENAI's recommendations were vetted by Renaissance staff (Dec 2023). Marriott Media uses first-party data on a consent basis with opt-outs for guests, Marriott said at its Jun 2025 launch.

People and decision rights

Skift's Jun 2026 preview of Colin Coleman's talk said Marriott International pairs its AI build with AI literacy programs for on-property associates and decision-rights frameworks that set what AI can and cannot act on alone, under Coleman's principle that AI should free associates from repetitive tasks for time with guests.

Disclosed risks

Marriott International's 2025 Form 10-K lists AI risks including inaccurate, misleading or biased output, improper use by associates, fast-changing AI regulation, greater cyber exposure from AI and cloud services, and AI at travel intermediaries diverting bookings and raising distribution costs.

Security leadership and past breach

Marriott International said in its 2025 Form 10-K that its CISO would leave in late Feb 2026, and appointed Daniel Dubowski, previously CISO at Hertz, as Senior Vice President and CISO in Aug 2026, reporting to Global CIO Naveen Manga (Hotel Dive). Marriott settled the FTC and 49 state attorneys general investigations into the 2018 Starwood reservations database incident in Oct 2024, agreeing to pay $52 million to the states and to keep enhancing its privacy and security programs.

Recent signals

  1. Oct 6, 2026

    Marriott International's Future of Food 2027 report for Asia Pacific excluding China said AI supports menu development, marketing, staffing and guest insights, and that all the restaurants and bars surveyed in Thailand use AI in their operations.

    Marriott News Center

  2. Sep 29, 2026

    A Marriott International News Center story said Marriott's pop-up at the Tales of the Cocktail festival in New Orleans featured AI-powered beverage recommendations.

    Marriott News Center

  3. Sep 9, 2026

    Anthony Capuano told a Bank of America investor conference that distribution is where AI will have its biggest effect on the hotel industry, and that Marriott International feeds Google and OpenAI as much content about its portfolio as it can.

    Skift

  4. Aug 27, 2026

    Google launched hotel booking inside AI Mode for English-speaking U.S. users with ten partners, including Marriott International, each acting as merchant of record.

    Skift

  5. Aug 19, 2026

    Marriott International confirmed Daniel Dubowski, formerly CISO at Hertz, as Senior Vice President and CISO reporting to Global CIO Naveen Manga, as it deploys AI across its technology transformation.

    Hotel Dive

  6. Aug 3, 2026

    Anthony Capuano said Marriott International is using AI across the enterprise to automate associate workflows and called Ask Bonvoy a phased rollout, while Jennifer Mason said more than 2,000 hotels had moved to the new core systems and about 25% of 2026 investment spending goes to that program and corporate systems.

    Q2 2026 earnings call

  7. Jun 16, 2026

    Marriott International began a beta of Ask Bonvoy, a conversational AI search grounded in its own property data, for a subset of members in U.S. English, and named Google and OpenAI as partners on AI travel search and advertising.

    Marriott News Center

  8. Jun 3, 2026

    Colin Coleman, Marriott International's SVP of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, described three tiers of AI at the Skift Data + AI Summit; Skift reported that Microsoft Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, without saying whether that covers hotel associates, and that Marriott's AI rollout had moved past pilots into a third phase.

    Skift

  9. May 6, 2026

    Anthony Capuano described a unified enterprise-wide generative AI strategy at Marriott International, listed AI tools in sales, contact centers, event planning and marketing, and said the 1,000th hotel had moved to the new technology ecosystem.

    Q1 2026 earnings call

  10. May 2026

    Global CIO Naveen Manga told a CIO Dive event that Marriott International is building a model-agnostic AI chassis for guests, associates and owners, uses AI across software engineering, and treats 2026 as a year for scale.

    Hotel Dive

  11. Mar 27, 2026

    Marriott International's 2026 proxy statement said its multi-year technology transformation is well underway and will let Marriott better use AI, and that the board's technology committee discussed Marriott's AI strategies and policies in 2025.

    2026 proxy statement

  12. Feb 10, 2026

    Anthony Capuano said AI could redefine how the hotel industry acquires customers, that Marriott International has worked with Google on AI Mode hotel booking since Nov 2025 and joined OpenAI's ad pilot, and that the new core systems had moved into deployment.

    Q4 2025 earnings call

  13. Feb 10, 2026

    Marriott International's 2025 Form 10-K disclosed AI governance by management committees, risk language on AI at travel intermediaries, and the departure of its CISO in late Feb 2026.

    2025 Form 10-K

Quick answers

How does Marriott International deploy AI?
Marriott International has reported no business return it credits to AI and no count of employees using its AI tools. Colin Coleman, SVP of Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI, said in Jun 2026 that Marriott sorts its AI into three tiers: Microsoft Copilot, which Skift reported had been rolled out to nearly every employee, possibly excluding hotel associates; low-code tools for teams; and larger systems such as sales and contact center AI and the Ask Bonvoy search beta. Marriott had moved 2,000+ hotels onto new core systems by Aug 2026.
What does Marriott International use AI for?
Marriott International has not published a count of its AI use cases; Anthony Capuano named AI in sales, contact center call assistance, event planning, marketing campaigns and pre-arrival guest messages in May 2026, Naveen Manga described AI in front desk room assignment (Jun 2025) and software engineering (May 2026), and Marriott runs the Ask Bonvoy search beta, natural-language search on Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy and a recruiting assistant on its careers site. Marriott International reports no business return for any AI use case and no firm-level return from AI; Capuano said sales AI will be judged on conversion rates and hotel revenue.
Who leads AI at Marriott International?
AI at Marriott International is led by Drew Pinto (Executive Vice President and Chief Revenue & Technology Officer); Naveen Manga (Global Chief Information Officer); Colin Coleman (Senior Vice President, Enterprise Data, Analytics and AI). Ownership of AI on the org chart: SVP Colin Coleman leads enterprise data, analytics and AI; EVP Drew Pinto leads digital and IT strategy.
What AI platform does Marriott International use?
Marriott International runs Microsoft Copilot for employees, low-code tools for teams and its own production systems, Colin Coleman said in Jun 2026, and Skift reported that Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, which may not include hotel associates; Global CIO Naveen Manga said in May 2026 that Marriott is building a model-agnostic AI chassis for guests, associates and owners, and Ask Bonvoy runs on what Marriott calls proprietary AI architecture.
Which AI models does Marriott International use?
Marriott International calls its AI chassis model-agnostic and has not named the models behind Ask Bonvoy or its sales and contact center tools; employees use Microsoft Copilot (Jun 2026), the RENAI concierge pilot drew on ChatGPT (Dec 2023), and Google and OpenAI are distribution partners.
How many Marriott employees use AI?
Marriott International has not published how many employees can use Microsoft Copilot or how many do; Skift reported in Jun 2026, after a talk by Colin Coleman, that Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, without saying whether that covers hotel associates (Marriott employs about 148,000 people and manages about 414,000 associates in all). Ask Bonvoy reached a subset of Marriott Bonvoy members in U.S. English from Jun 2026.
How far has AI spread at Marriott International?
Marriott International has reported no business return it credits to AI as of Oct 2026: Anthony Capuano said on the May 6, 2026 call that sales AI will be judged on conversion rates and hotel revenue but gave no figures, Skift's Jun 2026 report that Marriott's larger AI systems were starting to deliver revenue and cost savings carried none, and the more than $90 million of above-property cost savings in 2025 came from an enterprise-wide productivity initiative that Marriott did not credit to AI. Marriott International has not reported a company-wide AI rollout with a count of employees using its tools; the only reach figure is Skift's account, after a talk by SVP Colin Coleman, that Microsoft Copilot had been rolled out to nearly every employee, a trade-press paraphrase with no usage count that may not cover hotel associates. That leaves Marriott International at Experimenting although AI runs in production in sales, contact centers, front desks and search; one cost, revenue or headcount return it credits to AI, or a stated count of employees using its AI tools under a named owner such as Coleman, would move it to Piloting.

Open questions

  • Which models and clouds run Ask Bonvoy, the model-agnostic AI chassis and Marriott International's associate AI tools, and what does the Google Cloud partnership Skift referred to cover?
  • Does the Microsoft Copilot rollout Skift reported reach Marriott International's hotel associates as well as corporate staff, and how many employees use it each week?
  • How many AI use cases does Marriott International run in production beyond the handful its executives have named?
  • Whom does Colin Coleman report to, and which revenue and cost results are Marriott International's larger AI systems producing?
  • Has the global release of Ask Bonvoy planned for later in 2026 begun, how many members use it, and what has it done to conversion on Marriott's own channels?
  • What conversion and hotel revenue results have Marriott International's sales AI tools produced, given that Anthony Capuano named those as the measures of success?
  • How many of Marriott International's 19 customer engagement centers and more than 6,000 agents use AI call assistance, and what has it done to handling time or cost?
  • How many hotels use Marriott International's front desk room assignment tool, and what has it saved in staff time or cost?
  • Which vendor runs Marriott International's new loyalty platform, how far have the Amadeus reservations and Agilysys property systems spread, and when will full-service and luxury hotels move over?
  • What do the Google AI Mode and OpenAI ad pilot arrangements cost Marriott International compared with online travel agents, and will Marriott let outside AI agents book rooms directly?
  • What happened to RENAI by Renaissance after its pilot, given the plan to reach more than 20 properties by Mar 2024?
  • How many people work at the Marriott Tech Accelerator in Hyderabad and in Marriott International's data, analytics and AI team?

Sources

Marriott International

Data confidence

Confirmed
Stated in a primary or reputable public source.
Estimated
Derived or approximated from public reporting.
Unconfirmed
Reported, but not yet corroborated.

Marriott International profile · Enterprise AI diffusion report by Imagine · facts checked against their sources on Nov 1, 2026