By Russ Lynch
rlynch@starbulletin.com
Star-Bulletin
November 15, 2001
With occupancy in its two Waikiki hotels hovering in the area of 30 percent to 40 percent, Marriott International
Inc. is banking on more than $100 million worth of renovations to market a new "Waikiki experience,"
Edwin D. Fuller, president and managing director of Marriott Lodging International, said yesterday.
At a media breakfast at the Halekulani Hotel (which isn't in the Marriott family but was chosen because of construction
at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort) Fuller said the company is spending between $65 million and $80 million to
upgrade the Waikiki Beach property.
While that is going on, one of the hotel's two 650-room towers is closed for construction.
At the Renaissance Ilikai Waikiki, which is owned by another company but marketed under the Marriott-owned Renaissance
brand, a $30 million upgrade of the 782-room property is in the works.
Read this entire article in The Honolulu Star-Bulletin.