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Marriott says its guest reservation system has been hacked, potentially exposing the personal information of approximately 500 million guests. The hotel chain said Friday the hack affects its Starwood reservation database, a group of hotels it bought in 2016 that includes the St. Regis, Westin, Sheraton and W Hotels. Marriott said hackers had gained "unauthorized access" to the Starwood reservation system since 2014, but the company only identified the issue last week. "The company recently discovered that an unauthorized party had copied and encrypted information, and took steps towards removing it," Marriott said in a statement. For 327 million people,...

Should hotels hire registered sex offenders? That's the question two Arizona state legislators are considering after two women claimed they were raped by a night clerk who used a master key to enter their hotel rooms. The purported assaults took place at two different Mesa hotels, the first in 2011 at the Best Western Superstition Springs Inn; the second, a year later at the Marriot Fairfield Inn and Suites. Attorneys for the women say the clerk in question was fired from Best Western before being hired later by Marriot-Fairfield. They have filed suit against both hospitality giants saying they failed...

An employee at the Casa Monica Hotel in St. Augustine, Florida was asked to leave the premises for refusing to remove an American flag pin from his jacket on Wednesday. Sean May, who has worked for more than two years at the company, now faces the harsh reality of losing his job as the front desk supervisor. May, in an exclusive interview with Townhall.com, explained that following his weekly staff meeting on Wednesday -- he was unexpectedly asked by the HR Director to remove the insignia from his uniform. When he protested the policy, he was given two options: Remove...

90 million gun owners are a force to be reckoned with. The so-called "gun lobby" has its purpose, but it is not hiding under every bed in every case of speaking out. Individuals speak out in their own voice, because individuals suffer various indignities hardly none of us would really stand for. Gun owners put up with a lot of crap, nearly all of it illegal and certainly dangerous. How gun control goes, so goes the nation. How would you like to be ambushed for your political beliefs? Gun owner or not, how do you feel about courtesies and such...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Many U.S. hotel chains like to offer USA Today, The Wall Street Journal or their local newspaper as a courtesy to guests. Marriott International Inc will offer a different courtesy: no paper at all. Marriott said on Monday that it will stop dropping daily papers automatically at its guests' doors. Now, it will offer them a choice of papers or, if they want, no paper at all. Based on preliminary data, Marriott projects that this will reduce newspaper distribution by about 50,000 copies daily, or 18 million annually. Beginning June 1, guests at the company's full-service...

September 22, 2008 Pakistani leaders 'should have been at bombed hotel' Philippe Naughton, and Zahid Hussain, Islamabad Pakistan's top leaders were to have attended a state dinner at the luxury Islamabad hotel devastated in a suicide bomb attack on Saturday but changed venue at the last minute, it emerged today. Rehman Malik, who heads the Interior Ministry, said that both President Zardari and Yousuf Raza Gilani, the Prime Minister, were expected at the Marriott hotel to mark Mr Zardari's inaugural presidential address to Parliament. “The National Assembly speaker had arranged a dinner for the entire leadership, for the President, Prime...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A huge explosion ripped through part of the heavily guarded Marriott Hotel in Pakistan's capital Saturday, damaging buildings in a wide radius, killing at least two people and wounding at least 25.

New Hotel Sets Aside Space Just For Women By CHRIS KNAPE   The new JW Marriott hotel under construction in Grand Rapids, Mich., center, will feature a 19th floor and lounge exclusively for female clientele. (Photo by Noel A. Webley II)      GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Among the amenities planned for this city's new JW Marriott hotel, one might be a first in America.The Alticor Inc.-owned riverfront hotel is reserving its 19th floor and a lounge exclusively for female clientele when it opens Sept. 19.Andrea Groom, a spokeswoman for the 24-story, 340-room hotel, said the idea recognizes more than...

A court in Jakarta has sentenced a militant Muslim to 12 years in prison for his role in last year's bombing of the Marriott Hotel which killed 12 people. Ismail, whose real name is Ricky Putranto, was found guilty of storing and transporting the explosives used in the blast. The court did not find him guilty of planning and carrying out the attack. The two main suspects, both Malaysians, remain at large. The Indonesian police have arrested a married couple in a suburb of Surabaya in connection with last week's bomb explosion outside the Australian embassy in which nine people...

Indonesian police have arrested a man suspected of being implicated in the deadly Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta in August 2003, a local daily reports. The Kompas daily quotes East Java Police Chief Inspector General Firman Gani as saying the man, 'Dahlan', was arrested in the East Java town of Ngawi on Thursday. "There was an arrest, of a suspect of that bombing. It was made by a team from the national police headquarters in the territorial jurisdiction of the East Java police," he said. The hotel attack is blamed on the Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah regional terror network, which is...

<p>JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesian police are investigating the owner of a car used in the deadly bombing of a hotel in Jakarta that killed at least 14 people and injured more than 100.</p> <p>Searching through rubble of the JW Marriott, forensic experts have found clues that could link Tuesday's blast to attacks last year in Bali, CNN has learned.</p>

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An explosion outside a Marriot Hotel in downtown Jakarta killed four people on Tuesday, radio reports said. It was not immediately clear whether the blast was caused by a bomb. However, since last year's terrorist bombings in Bali, which killed 202 people, authorities have warned that more attacks were likely. "I saw four badly burned bodies on the street," a reporter from Jakarta's El Shinta radio station said, adding that two cars nearby were on fire. Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang, a police spokesman, said he had heard the report and that officers were on their...

Pornography has become a huge business, with glitzy trade shows to promote its products. (ABCNEWS.com) American Porn Corporate America Is Profiting From Porn — Quietly Jan. 28 — Pornography has grown into a $10 billion business — bigger than the NFL, the NBA and Major League Baseball combined — and some of the nation's best-known corporations are quietly sharing the profits. Companies like General Motors, AOL Time Warner and Marriott earn revenue by piping adult movies into Americans' homes and hotel rooms, but you won't see anything about it in their company reports. And you won't hear them talking about...

(CNSNews.com) - Unless hotels across the country stop piping X-rated movies into their rooms, one family group fears guests who view the pay-per-view porn might act out their deviant fantasies on residents in neighboring communities, and even children. Libertarians, however, accuse the American Family Association of trying to further their moral agenda. AFA's online advocacy wing, OneMillionMoms.com and OneMillionDads.com, has launched a petition drive intended to force Marriott International to "get out of the hardcore porn business." According to AFA spokesman Buddy Smith, the family group is specifically targeting Marriott because the hotel chain has promoted itself in the past...