”The Marriott Bethesda Downtown at Marriott HQ, located directly next door, will serve as an extension of Marriott’s Design Lab, containing 13 sample “test rooms,” each customizable to reflect different brands. Dubbed Floor57 after the year the company first entered the lodging business, these active rooms are ready to deploy design, technology, and new product and service offerings with customers and other key stakeholders.”
Ah, so that's where they trial brilliant concepts like "Gen Z doesn't use desks so let's rip desks out of our hotel rooms"?
And where they trial cheap plastic fake wood flooring to freeze hotel guests' feet in the morning rather than installing costly carpet?
I hope people who attend this event get really up in the face of Marriott execs and let them know just how miserable a job they're doing.