Hotel Chains Improve Diversity, NAACP Says
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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.
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