Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin As the newly appointed President of Luxury at Marriott International, Edmundson reveals what’s next for the world’s largest hotel operator. Tina Edmundson, President of Luxury at Marriott International Courtesy Marriott When it comes to C-Suite leadership in hospitality, Tina Edmundson is a name you need to know. Clocking more than 16 years at Marriott, she joined amid the company’s 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, making it the largest hotel company in the world.
It now comprises 30 brands, and operates approximately 9,000 properties. In a brick and mortar business, it’s hard to see how Marriott could get much bigger. That’s where luxury steps in.
It’s seen as the ‘ bright spot ’ growth engine in hospitality, which puts Edmundson, promoted last year to become Marriott’s President of Luxury, squarely in the hot seat. She now oversees eight brands, including St. Regis, Ritz-Carlton, Ritz-Carlton Reserve, Bulgari Hotels, Edition, Luxury Collection, JW Marriott, and W Hotels.
Raised in Mumbai, India, Edmundson graduated with a finance degree from the University of Bombay, and then moved to the U.S. to pursue her MBA in hotel and restaurant administration at the University of Houston’s Conrad N.
Hilton college. Having worked in hospitality all her life, she’s seen just about everything there is to see in the hotel business. In this interview, she shares her outlook for the future of luxury tr.
