Marriott International CEO Arne Sorenson and Randy Smith,
co-founder of hospitality research firm STR, will be inducted into the U.S.
Travel Association's U.S. Travel Hall of Leaders at a Nov. 14 dinner in
Washington, D.C.
Sorenson, who joined Marriott in 1996, was promoted to CEO
in 2012. Smith co-founded what was then Smith Travel Research with his late
wife Carolyn in 1985.
Since the U.S. Travel
Hall of Leaders' creation in 1969, 94 people have been inducted.