Marriott International and its more than 7,300 hotels around the world are launching efforts to help communities where they operate during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rooms for Responders
Marriott Bonvoy is launching Rooms for Responders in collaboration with its credit card partners, American Express and JPMorgan Chase, to provide up to $10 million worth of hotel stays at no cost rooms to front-line health-care workers in some of the hardest-hit cities in the United States.
To help identify health-care responders in need of overnight stays, Marriott Bonvoy is working with the Emergency Nurses Association, which acts as a resource for the global emergency nursing community, and the American College of Emergency Physicians, which represents emergency physicians, emergency medicine residents and medical students. Both organizations represent thousands of emergency doctors and nurses in the United States and internationally.
The program will provide approximately 100,000 room nights to front-line nurses and doctors in target cities in most need at this time, including New York; Newark, N.J.; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Los Angeles; Detroit; Las Vegas; and New Orleans. ENA and ACEP will administer the program matching doctors and nurses with accommodations at participating hotels. The goal of the program is to offer these workers a place to stay whether they live locally or have traveled in to support overwhelmed hospitals.
Community Caregiver Program
Marriott recently launched its Community Caregiver Program for health-care workers on the front-lines of the pandemic. This program, available in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America, provides special rates for first responders and health-care professionals who want to book rooms at hotels in close proximity to the hospitals where they’re working. The rate is available on Marriott.com at nearly 2,500 hotels.
Given the unprecedented disruption to the travel industry, a number of our hotels have, unfortunately, had to close temporarily. Even as the hotels were shutting their doors, associates from New Delhi, India to Santos, Brazil, have found multiple ways to support the communities in which the hotels are located. The Riviera Marriott Hotel La Porte de Monaco and AC Hotel Nice, for example, donated all of their unused produce and food products to a local children’s charity, which provides housing and other services for endangered children.
Many of these properties have contributed by providing food, pre-packed and cooked meals to crisis relief efforts and much-needed supplies like cleaning products, masks, gloves, anti-microbial wipes, sanitizers and shower caps for medical and other frontline workers.
Community Donations
Many of Marriott’s properties globally have contributed by providing food, pre-packed and cooked meals to crisis relief efforts and much-needed supplies like cleaning products, masks, gloves, antimicrobial wipes, sanitizers and shower caps for medical and other front-line workers. Other hotels, including the Sheraton Djibouti, are distributing food packs to help the hungry.
Through Marriott Bonvoy’s Giving Platform, members can donate Marriott Bonvoy points to relief organizations that are active in COVID-19 responses around the world and that Marriott is also supporting, including the American Red Cross, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, UNICEF and World Central Kitchen.
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