Hotel managers are hopeful the Lazy River Waterpark inside the Marriott at Desert Ridge Resort in northeast Phoenix will re-open Friday after Tuesday’s heavy rainstorm flooded the water park and three of the resort’s restaurants.

Chandler could land an Arizona exclusive — a Renaissance Club Sport, hotel giant Marriott International’s newest concept.

The former Renaissance Scottsdale Resort has a new name, new management and undisclosed plans for the future. The venerable 171-room inn, which straddles the Scottsdale-Paradise Valley border, is tucked behind lush landscaping next to the Scottsdale Borgata shopping center at Scottsdale Road and Rose Lane.

Mesa has a history of attracting low-budget motels, but that trend is about to change.

A Marriott Courtyard planned for Falcon Field Airport will be the first hotel built in east Mesa in a generation and the first within the city limits in 10 years.

Mesa finally has a full-service Marriott.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Suicide bombers posing as guests attacked American luxury hotels in Indonesia's capital and set off a pair of blasts Friday that killed eight people and wounded more than 50, authorities said.

A new 208-suite Residence Inn by Marriott has opened at the Phoenix campus of the Mayo Clinic.

Gilbert has never been a place with an abundance of overnight lodgings for traveling business professionals. But that is about to change. Developers announced Thursday they plan to build two hotels - a Marriott Courtyard and Marriott Residence - near the SanTan Village shopping center.

A proposed $200 million commercial development would bring 260 hotel rooms, office space for an estimated 1,600 employees and shops to Chandler’s Price Road corridor in the next couple of years.

One East Valley Marriott may be doomed but another is nearly ready to bloom, Marriott International’s chairman said Wednesday.

The general manager of the Sheraton Phoenix East told the Mesa City Council on Thursday morning that the hotel will change its name to Marriott in early April.

A report released just last week predicted that Arizona will add nearly 61,000 jobs in 2013.

An 11-story Marriott hotel is scheduled to break ground in downtown Tempe later this year, in what is a rare example of a pre-recession project coming back to life.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A suicide bomber detonated a dump truck packed with a ton of explosives outside the Marriott in Pakistan's capital Saturday, setting off a fiery blast that shattered the luxury hotel, killed at least 42 people and wounded hundreds, officials and witnesses said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Taliban militants based near the Afghan border and their al-Qaida allies are the most likely suspects behind a massive truck bombing at Islamabad's Marriott Hotel, officials and experts said Sunday. At least 53 died in the explosion, including two U.S. Defense Department employees and the Czech ambassador.