As of December 31, 2023, the company owned 77 upscale hotels containing approximately 42,000 rooms in the United States, Brazil, and Canada.

In 1927, John Willard Marriott and his wife Alice opened a root beer stand in Washington, D.C. that they named “The Hot Shoppe,” which later became a public company.

[2] In 1957, Hot Shoppes, Inc. expanded into the lodging business with the opening of its first hotel in Arlington, Virginia, and in 1967, the company was renamed Marriott Corporation.

[5][6] Host Marriott managed lodging and travel concessions at airports and along turnpikes and interstate highways.

[5] After the company divested its non-hotel business and reorganized as a real estate investment trust in 1998,[7] it adopted its current name—Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.—in 2006.