Marriott Eyes Rewards, All-Inclusives in Cautious Travel Rebound For Marriott, as for much of the travel industry, things are turning up, and pockets of opportunity are becoming clearer. Bloomberg | May 03, 2021 (Bloomberg) -- If thinking about Marriott International conjures the skyscraping Marquis flagship in New York’s Times Square, with its supersonic bubble elevators currently presiding over a dark Broadway, it would be easy to assume that the company faces a bleak near-term future. Indeed, parts of that company’s business are still struggling to find footing amid a travel slowdown that has lasted more than a year. At the Marquis, 800 jobs were eliminated around the year-end holidays. As a whole, Marriott International suffered its worst year in recent history in 2020. It also lost its visionary chief executive officer, Arne Sorenson, to pancreatic cancer.