What happens when construction or conversion of my Delta Hotels By Marriott hotel is complete?
Delta_Hotels_By_Marriott Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
(5) Visit your hotel when you tell us construction or conversion is complete to ensure that you have complied with the final plans, specifications, and standards and to determine if the hotel is ready to open and operate under the system (Franchise Agreement – Exhibit C (New Development) – Section 3; Exhibit C (Conversion) – Section 4).
(6) Provide hotel staff with on-site training or training tools necessary for operating system hotels (Franchise Agreement – Section 9).
(7) Train your general manager and your hotel management team (see Item 5 and below in this Item 11 for additional details regarding training) (Franchise Agreement – Section 9).
(8) Make available our manuals, procedures, systems, guides, programs (including our quality assurance program), requirements, directives, specifications, design criteria, and such other information and initiatives for operating hotels in the system (the "standards") to you through our electronic systems or in such other manner we deem appropriate (Franchise Agreement – Section 10.1).
Hotels converting to the Marriott system and newly renovated hotels must complete a photo shoot within 60 days after conversion or completion of the renovation, as applicable. The photographs must be captured and processed by an approved professional photographer. The photographs must be no more than five years old.
Source: Item 10 — FINANCING (FDD pages 82–101)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 Delta Hotels By Marriott Franchise Disclosure Document, after construction or conversion of your hotel is complete, a representative from Delta Hotels By Marriott will visit the site. This visit is to ensure that the franchisee has complied with the final plans, specifications, and standards set by Delta Hotels By Marriott. The purpose of the visit is also to determine if the hotel is ready to open and operate under the Delta Hotels By Marriott system.
Additionally, hotels converting to the Marriott system and newly renovated hotels must complete a photo shoot within 60 days after conversion or completion of the renovation. These photographs must adhere to specific standards, be professionally rendered in high resolution, and be captured and processed by an approved professional photographer. The portfolio should contain around 20 photographs, and the cost of this photo shoot is the responsibility of the franchisee.
Delta Hotels By Marriott also provides hotel staff with on-site training or training tools necessary for operating system hotels. Furthermore, Delta Hotels By Marriott will train the general manager and the hotel management team. Delta Hotels By Marriott will also make available their manuals, procedures, systems, guides, programs, requirements, directives, specifications, design criteria, and such other information and initiatives for operating hotels in the system to you through their electronic systems or in such other manner they deem appropriate.