Hotel Chains Improve Diversity, NAACP Says
Associated Press
Hotel chains have made progress in providing business opportunities to minorities, but have been slow to increase black property ownership and advertise in black-owned media, an NAACP report found.
The report assigned grades to 11 national chains--Marriott International Inc. received the highest grade, B, on the 2002 report card; Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. was the lowest with a C.
In the last report card, issued two years ago, the NAACP gave grades of mostly Cs and Ds to the chains.
