Marriott's third-quarter earnings showed a 3% increase in worldwide RevPar — or revenue per available room — despite an 8% drop in RevPar in China, the company's second largest market.
Marriott International's business operations and growth are solid, CEO Anthony Capuano told CNBC Monday, amid layoffs of more than 800 corporate employees and continued sluggishness in China's tourism market.The company's third-quarter earnings showed a 3% increase in worldwide RevPar — or revenue per available room — despite an 8% drop in RevPar in China, the company's second largest market.
"Pre-pandemic, about 18 to 19% of our total room nights were cross border travel," he said."Through Q3 we were already over 20% and that's with more to come in terms of restoration of airline seat capacity in Greater China. So we think there's more and more upside for that international inbound." "This is not a traditional corporate cost cutting measure," he said."In decade, the continent teams have matured; we've grown dramatically. We're in 60 new countries. And so we looked at this exercise to try and shift more decision-making to the continents."