Mr. Marx

Steven Marx

Managing Principal

Lifestyle Hospitality

A seasoned pioneer in boutique hotels, Steve Marx has risen to become the industry's most recognized expert in lifestyle properties. While leading Kimpton Hotels, Loews Hotel Corp, and W Hotels, Steve guided each company through significant growth and stellar financial results. At Kimpton, where he grew the company from 12 to 30 hotels over 8 years, Steve and his team were responsible for launching the Monaco brand. With Loews Hotels, he met the challenge of repositioning several under performing properties, while at the same time spearheaded the largest growth period in Loews' history.

Mr. Marx's most noteworthy accomplishment with Starwood was to transform W Hotels from the least to the most profitable brand in the company in one short year. The many strategic alliances formed and relationships established throughout his successful career are the foundation for Lifestyle Hospitality. The Lifestyle team has been hand picked with top tier talent in each discipline.

His vision of creating a new and innovative lodging concept is sparked by his entrepreneurial spirit and his desire to continue to push the envelope by launching Lifestyle Hospitality, LLC in January 2006.

Mr. Marx can be contacted at 203-698-2772 or smarx@lifestylehg.com

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Hotel Sustainable Development: Principles and Best Practices
Sustainability is now a daily topic that affects every facet of hotel development and operations. As hotelier Hervé Houdré recently noted "The goal of Sustainable Development is clearly to secure economic development, social equity, and environmental protection. As much as they could work in harmony, these goals sometimes work against each other". In the June Hotel Business Review, some of the industry's most recognized sustainable development experts come together to identify emerging trends and discuss how sustainability is currently affecting the hotel industry. Each author presents the most important aspects of sustainable development of much interest to hotel owners, operators, investors and developers. We include perspectives and case studies on best practices from leading hotel groups and other industry players.
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