Financial Information
Lodging Development
We added 122 properties, totaling 27,059 rooms, across our brands in 2012 and 42 properties (8,883 rooms) left the system, not including residential products or ExecuStay. We also added three residential properties (89 units) and no residential properties left the system. Highlights of the year included:
- Converting 30 properties (5,553 rooms), or 20 percent of our gross room additions for the year, to our brands, including seven properties joining our Autograph Collection brand. Twenty-one of the properties converted were located in the United States;
- Thirty percent of our gross room additions were from the acquisition of the Gaylord brand and hotel management company. At year-end 2012, as a result of the acquisition, we managed five hotels (8,098 rooms) as well as other attractions including a showboat, golf course, and saloon;
- Adding approximately 30 percent of all the new rooms outside the United States; and
- Adding 70 properties (8,470 rooms) to our North American Limited-Service brands.
We currently have nearly 130,000 hotel rooms under construction, awaiting conversion, or approved for development in our hotel development pipeline and we expect to add approximately 30,000 to 35,000 hotel rooms (gross) to our system in 2013.
We believe that we have access to sufficient financial resources to finance our growth, as well as to support our ongoing operations and meet debt service and other cash requirements. Nonetheless, our ability to develop and update our brands and the ability of hotel developers to build or acquire new Marriott-branded properties, both of which are important parts of our growth plan, depend in part on capital access, availability and cost for other hotel developers and third-party owners. These growth plans are subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control. See the “Forward-Looking Statements” and “Risks and Uncertainties” captions earlier in this report and the “Liquidity and Capital Resources” caption later in this report.