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Marriott Just Put a Courtyard on an Okinawa Beach. That's Not a Resort Play. It's a Conversion Template.

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Marriott Just Put a Courtyard on an Okinawa Beach. That's Not a Resort Play. It's a Conversion Template.

A shuttered Japanese beach hotel reopens as a 170-key Courtyard, and Marriott's real strategy isn't the property... it's the playbook for converting independent resort assets across Asia Pacific at a pace that should make every regional brand nervous.

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Elena Voss 3 min read · 2h ago