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...their services and speed up renovation works and implement staff retraining programmes....
...Marriott....
...Retail continued its steep decline in value, the Specialist portfolio (Leisure and Hotels) followed while offices held firm....
...Data breaches can be expensive — just ask Marriott. The hotel group said last November that hackers had been accessing its database since 2014, compromising up to 339m guest records....
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...(The hotel boasts on its website of its “unique service culture . . . delivered with an audacious twist”.)...
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