This article is about the hotel brand Ritz-Carlton Hotels, for other uses please see Ritz (disambiguation)

Ritz-Carlton is a brand of luxury hotel and resort with 70 properties that are located in major cities and exclusive resort destinations of 23 countries worldwide. The Ritz-Carlton brand is managed by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marriott International. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has currently 32,000 employees.

The Montreal Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Sherbrooke Street was built in 1912, but officially, it is not part of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chain.

The first Ritz-Carlton Hotel was built in Boston in 1927.

The New York Ritz-Carlton was located at Forty-sixth and Madison Avenue. From 1910 Louis Diat ran the kitchens and "famously invented vichyssoise".

Naples Florida is the only city with two Ritz-Carlton's on the same road.

The Ritz-Carlton headquarters are found in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C..

In 2005, Ritz-Carlton was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.

Highest hotel in the world

See also

• The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel & Spa
• Ritz Carlton Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
• Ritz-Carlton Vancouver
• The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore
• The Ritz-Carlton,Istanbul (s.alaca)

A list of all Ritz-Carlton properties is available here:

• All Ritz-Carlton Properties

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