Hotel operator Marriott Internationl announced yesterday new moves to protect the environment and make the chain’s hotels more green.  While that in and of itself isn’t too surprising given the pressure businesses are under to go green, it was Bill Marriott’s statement on why that caught my eye.

But it’s not entirely altruistic. Besides meeting customer demand for more environmentally conscious hotel stays and corporate meetings, chief executive J.W. Marriott Jr. said he is worried that climate change poses a serious threat to many of the company’s 3,000 hotels, including some of the most profitable.

“We’ve got to protect our hotels,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of beachfront hotels. We don’t want two feet of water in the lobbies. We’re also in New York City. We have a lot of coastal properties, which I worry about the ocean rising and coming right in, in places it’s not supposed to come.”

Sounds like Marriott has bought the Al Gore hsyteria hook, line and sinker and he gets an F for his knowledge on global warming as a result.

 

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