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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Bloomberg Surveillance Podcast. I'm Tom Keane along

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Speaker 1: with Jonathan Ferrell and Lisa Brownowitz Jailey. We bring you

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Speaker 1: and of course on the Bloomberg terminal. Right now, Lisa

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Speaker 1: Bramins and Tom keenan we digress, and we digress to

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Speaker 1: corporate management in moving forward in this pandemic, Anthony Kapjanos,

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Speaker 1: with Marriott the CEO and Tony Capiano out of Cornell Hotel,

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Speaker 1: has had the toughest task in management of any corporate

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Speaker 1: officer in America, filling his shoes of the great Arne

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Speaker 1: Soords and I'm gonna go to Cornell Hotel and Arne

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Speaker 1: Soords and life is service. How have you managed this

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Speaker 1: tough task? Well? I had the first of all, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me. It's great to be back in per

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Speaker 1: with Arnie for almost a quarter of a century. I

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Speaker 1: think the easiest way to manage through the grief that

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Speaker 1: that the Marriott family has experienced is to honor his

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Speaker 1: legacy by continuing all the great work he had done

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Speaker 1: and continuing the company down the path that he had

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Speaker 1: set forth for us. Cornell Hotel didn't have a course

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Speaker 1: pandemic one oh one. They may now what they may now?

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Speaker 1: What have you learned? A few things? I think I've

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Speaker 1: learned how valuable our culture is. I've found how resilient

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Speaker 1: and adaptable are people are around the world. I've learned

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Speaker 1: how much people miss travel, and I've learned how responsive

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Speaker 1: we need to be to these sorts of crises. We

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Speaker 1: had to not only stabilize the company's balance sheet in

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Speaker 1: a matter of weeks, but roll out all new operating

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Speaker 1: and um cleanliness protocols in a hundred and thirty three

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Speaker 1: countries around the world in a matter of weeks, Tony,

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Speaker 1: How difficult is it to hire enough personnel to meet

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Speaker 1: the credible demand of people who do want to get

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Speaker 1: back on the road. It varies by market, Lisa. In

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Speaker 1: the markets here in the US where we've seen demands

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Speaker 1: spike most rapidly California, Texas, Florida, it is challenging, and

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Speaker 1: we're competing for labor not only with other hospitality and

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Speaker 1: travel companies, but with those industries that have thrived, some

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Speaker 1: of the online retailers and the like. We really have

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Speaker 1: to be much more proactive and deliberate about reminding folks

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Speaker 1: as we're dealing with a number of supply chain kinks

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Speaker 1: and certainly labor market frictions, were also dealing with a

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Speaker 1: different international backdrop, and we had President Biden come out

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Speaker 1: and warned companies about doing business in Hong Kong. How

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Speaker 1: are you dealing with these types of saber rattling warnings

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Speaker 1: and possibly even more than saber rattling, particularly with respect

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Speaker 1: to expand. Well, we continue to expand in China. It's

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Speaker 1: our biggest, second biggest market globally. We've got four hundred

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Speaker 1: we're helped a bit Virtually the entirety of our footprint

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Speaker 1: are viewed a bit more as a Chinese company versus

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Speaker 1: assets there um. But again we've got to navigate these

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Speaker 1: complexities in a hundred and thirty three countries around the world.

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Speaker 1: And it's really I think starts with being good corporate citizens.

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Speaker 1: Best thing you ever did was restore the old King

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Speaker 1: cole mural at the St. Regis Hotel in New York.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to restore it in Hong Kong. You

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Speaker 1: absolute palace. The reality is you've got to get fat

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Speaker 1: cat bankers into that St. Regis and Hong Kong. How

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Speaker 1: are you going to do that given the politics of Beijing, Well,

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Speaker 1: it will certainly be a challenge. What's interesting is, at

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Speaker 1: least through the pandemic, given the condition of borders in China,

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Speaker 1: UM China is relying almost entirely on domestic demand. But

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Speaker 1: we look at corporate business travel in China in market

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Speaker 1: the pricing powers there, but the mix is different because

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Speaker 1: it's largely domestic demand. Tony, what about globally, are you

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Speaker 1: starting to see global travel wax or Wayne? Given the

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Speaker 1: increase in delta variant around the world, it varies by market,

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Speaker 1: track and analyze the data in real time. When the

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Speaker 1: EU came out with a fairly opaque statement about borders

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Speaker 1: we see really muted demand patterns. Honestly, I just actually

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Speaker 1: much of this is going to be the new normal

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Speaker 1: going forward? I think There will be changes we've made

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Speaker 1: the contactless technology we've put in place, the ability to

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Speaker 1: more than four thousand hotels around the world. I think

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Speaker 1: Amazon and Jesse and Bezos, they're affecting your base way.

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Speaker 1: I think they're affecting to me this entirely of travel

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Speaker 1: that travel on tourism companies had to make heart wrenching

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Speaker 1: the efficiency ratio up in a gorgeous chart before the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: The number was a brilliant six. After the pandemic and

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Speaker 1: It's only for the problem banks where the efficiency ratios

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Speaker 1: zel mean for Brian moynihan James Diamond and the rest

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Speaker 1: just up up we go. In cell phone payments, you

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Speaker 1: Brian moynihan and Management is a Bank of America that

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Speaker 1: a physical presence will help them now for the delayed

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Speaker 1: rebound of the consumer for banking and small business small

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Speaker 1: when we see a pickup and loan activity. Unfortunately, Tom,

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Speaker 1: Alison Williams and bloom Bag Intelligence, you as well, Lisa,

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Speaker 1: David George, you want you to parachute in Mackenzie or

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Speaker 1: It's good to see it than wity of research analysts

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Speaker 1: the final. Let's think about the positive. John. I'm happy

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Speaker 1: so negatively for so long. And what's happening with Steve

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Speaker 1: is gonna see it. It's gonna catch up as always

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Speaker 1: HSBC Globe ahead of fixed income research on this bond market.

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Speaker 1: Always fantastic to catch up with Steve Major Tom, and

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