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Marriott International will set up a global capability center (GCC) in Hyderabad, which will be its first such offshore unit in India and will help support Marriott’s various operations across its global enterprise in 141 countries and territories.
Marriott Tech Accelerator is also in all likelihood the first ever GCC from a hospitality major being set-up in India.
The Marriott Tech Accelerator is an expansion of the company’s global technology team and will support Marriott’s tech infrastructure, engineering capacity, next-gen solutions, and security capabilities across its global enterprise in 141 countries and territories.
Marriott will begin its GCC full-scale operations set to commence by the first quarter of 2025.
Duddila Sridhar Babu, Minister of Information Technology, Electronics, Communications, and Industries, Telangana said that the state has emerged as a global tech leader with over 200 GCCs driving business transformation.
Babu also said that going ahead the state government will come out with incentive schemes to attract more such players.
This announcement builds off 25 years of Marriott doing business in India, which began in 1999 with the opening of the Goa Marriott Resort and Spa.
Earlier this year, the company celebrated its 150th hotel in India, the Marriott Katra Resort and Spa.
The company’s expansion plans in India are expected to take its room count from around 29,000 rooms across 17 brands as of October 2024, to over 42,000 rooms in the coming years.
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