Host Hotels & Resorts Inc HST

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (Host Inc.), incorporated on September 28, 1998, operates as a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). The Company operates through hotel ownership segment. The Company owned properties and conducted operations through Host Hotels & Resorts, L.P. (Host L.P.), of which Host Inc. was the general partner and of which it held approximately 99% of the partnership interests (OP units), as of December 31, 2016. As of February 20, 2017, its lodging portfolio consisted of 96 primarily luxury and upper-upscale hotels containing approximately 53,500 rooms, with the majority located in the United States, and with seven of the properties located outside of the United States in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico. In addition, it owns non-controlling interests in two international joint ventures: approximately a 33% interest in a joint venture in Europe, which owns 10 luxury and upper-upscale hotels with approximately 3,900 rooms in Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and a 9% indirect interest, through joint ventures, in five operating hotels and two hotels in the final stages of completion in India.

The Company holds non-controlling investments in three domestic hotels and a timeshare joint venture in Hawaii. The Company's hotels operate in urban and resort markets either as luxury properties under such brand names as Fairmont, Grand Hyatt, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, Autograph Collection, Curio - A Collection by Hilton, The Luxury Collection and W, or as upper upscale properties under such brand names as Embassy Suites, Hilton, Hyatt, Le Meridien, Marriott, Marriott Suites, Pullman, Renaissance, Sheraton, Swissotel and Westin. The Company also may invest in upscale and midscale properties, such as Courtyard by Marriott, Hyatt Place, ibis, Novotel or Residence Inn by Marriott, particularly in international markets.