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Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is an American hotel and leisure company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. One of the world's largest hotel companies, it owns, operates, franchises and manages hotels, resorts, spas, residences, and vacation ownership properties under its 11 owned brands. , Starwood Hotels and Resorts owned, managed, or franchised over 1,200 properties employing over 180,400 people, of whom approximately 26% were employed in the United States.
On November 16, 2015, Marriott International announced it would purchase Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide for $13.6 billion, presumably creating the world's largest hotel chain once a closed deal.
Starwood may refer to:
- Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, an American hotel and leisure company acquired by Marriott in 2016
- Starwood Amphitheatre, a former outdoor music venue in the Nashville, Tennessee area
- Starwood (nightclub), a former music venue in West Hollywood, California
- Starwood Festival, an annual Neo-Pagan, New Age, multi-cultural and world music festival
- Starwood Capital Group, an American private investment firm
The Starwood was a popular nightclub and music venue in West Hollywood, California from early 1973 to 1981. Many punk bands and heavy metal bands started their careers playing at the club. The Starwood was located on the northwest corner of Santa Monica Blvd. and North Crescent Heights Blvd. It had been a fashionable jazz and pop music nightclub called P.J.'s in the 1960s, which attracted a large number of film and TV personalities and some old school jazz musicians. The club hosted such acts as the Bobby Fuller Four, the Standells, Rufus Thomas, Trini Lopez, and Kool & the Gang who recorded live albums there. It was managed by Elmer Valentine before he left to found the Whisky a Go Go.