here s the power player of the week. before you walk through the lobby ejecting you went to our room and never came back to the lobby unless you were on your way out of the hotel. today the lobby is a gathering place. bill marriott is talking about millennials, folks in their 20s and early 30s and what they want in hotels. marriott has been in the business for 60 years. i traveled 110,000 miles last year. at age 8. he s all about the future. how much of you focus is on the millennials? right now about 45% to 50% of our business and in another three or four years they ll be 60% of our business. we just got through talking about a portfolio project we have going on. marriott has an innovation lab where staffers brainstorm and talk with millennials. they have mock ups of the potential hotel rooms, edgy, not much color, big beds and big tvs
guests. probably over a million people a night. how does that make you feel? concerned that they re being well taken care of. three years ago marriott stepped down as chairman and ceo. you haven t exactly retired though have you? i don t think i ever will. i m averaging 40 to 50 hours a week. why do you keep doing it? zbli love it. but when e asked what the satisfaction of the job swb marriott surprised us. he talked about the 360,000 employees. 50% of our general managers in our hotels have been with the company 25 years or more and started as hourly workers and that to me is terrific. we can bring somebody in a waiter and make them president of the company. that s just the way america is supposed to work. even though he s moved upstairs in the company, bill marriott still visits about 200 of his hotels each year and he shows no signs of slowing down. that s it for today.
but no desk since they re on their laptops. this is the shower. that s the shower almost right in the guest room. it s pretty bare bones. you got a bed, a shower a sink. and a big tv. and a big tv. you can tell marriott is having to adjust to some of it. we were not exactly cool with flowered bed spreads. now there s no bed spreads. they have a cover over the sheets and blankets. does that scare you? no. u think it s tes right thing to do. this is what the customers wants. that could be the motto for their success. we opened on the same day lynn berg on the atlantic. he met him and said you and i went in business on the same day. now marriott has 19 brands were more than 4,000 hotels 720,000 rooms and a lot of
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here s the power player of the week. before you walk through the lobby ejecting you went to our room and never came back to the lobby unless you were on your way out of the hotel. today the lobby is a gathering place. bill marriott is talking about millennials, folks in their 20s and early 30s and what they want in hotels. marriott has been in the business for 60 years. i traveled 110,000 miles last year. at age 8. he s all about the future. how much of you focus is on the millennials? right now about 45% to 50% of our business and in another three or four years they ll be 60% of our business. we just got through talking about a portfolio project we have going on. marriott has an innovation lab where staffers brainstorm and talk with millennials. they have mock ups of the potential hotel rooms, edgy, not much color, big beds and big tvs