I’m very happy to announce that, last week, a brand new Courtyard hotel featuring the new lobby design opened in Jackson, Tennessee. Right now, the only other Courtyard hotel to feature the new lobby is the one you see above, which is at the Fair Oaks Courtyard in Fairfax, Virginia.
This wonderful new hotel features all our new design elements. I don’t want to repeat myself, but if you want to see more about the design elements and hear from our guests you can watch the videos above. What I really like about this hotel . . .
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Posted by Brian at 07/03/08 11:03 AM | No Comments
The Courtyard brand continues to grow and expand internationally. We just celebrated the grand opening of the Courtyard by Marriott Beijing Northeast. This is our sixth Courtyard hotel in China and we have three more in the pipeline. It’s located 20 minutes from Beijing Capital International Airport between the Lido Commercial District and . . .
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Posted by Brian at 06/18/08 2:46 PM | 3 Comments
Not too long ago, I told you about the updates we are making to our Courtyard guest rooms. One of these updates is adding high definition flat screen TVs to all our rooms. Technology has been advancing rapidly, especially in the past few years. Flat panel HDTVs have been around for awhile now and we’ve already been installing them in some of our hotels, but now we’re really picking up the pace. Our goal is to have them in place at all of our Courtyard hotels by the end of 2009.
The new flat panel HDTVs will be replacing those big, bulky analog TVs with the huge backs. Each HDTV will be at least 32 inches and every Courtyard will . . .
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Posted by Brian at 05/29/08 2:53 PM | 1 Comment
Just a few weeks ago, Marriott announced that we will be more than doubling the number of hotels we have in the Middle East by 2011. On top of that, it was just announced that Marriott will be managing nine more new hotels in Saudi Arabia starting in 2010. I’m really excited because one third of these new Saudi Arabian properties are going to be Courtyards. It’s a real testament to the global power of the brand.
The new Courtyards will be located in the cities of Riyadh and Jeddah. All will feature the brand’s new, modern design and . . .
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Posted by Brian at 05/14/08 2:27 PM | No Comments
By now, I’m sure many of you have seen the new Courtyard commercial on TV. It seems to be everywhere! Our brilliant marketing team put a lot of hard work into it and I’m really proud and happy about how it turned out.
This new ad campaign signals a different approach for Courtyard because we’re using a new tagline – “It’s a new stay.” This is the first time that slogan hasn’t referred to “business travelers.” In the past, the phrase that was most commonly associated with Courtyard was “The first hotel designed for the business traveler, by the business traveler.”
Our new tagline couldn’t be more accurate. It really is a new stay for our guests . . .
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Posted by Brian at 05/05/08 9:02 AM | 3 Comments
