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- This article is about the hotel brand Ritz-Carlton Hotels, for other uses please see Ritz (disambiguation)
- The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach, Manalapan, Florida
- The Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain Hotel & Spa
- Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- The Ritz-Carlton Millenia Singapore
- The Ritz-Carlton Cancun, Mexico
- The Ritz-Carlton, Istanbul (s.alaca)
- The Ritz-Carlton Mega Kuningan, Jakarta, Indonesia
- The Ritz Carlton Pacific Place, Jakarta, Indonesia
- The Ritz-Carlton Surabaya, Indonesia
- The Ritz-Carlton Bintan, Indonesia
thumb|The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. '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 Ritz-Carlton headquarters are found in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a community along the border of Washington, D.C..
History
The first Ritz-Carlton Hotel was built in Boston in 1927. (The original building was recently sold to Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces.) The New York Ritz-Carlton was located at Forty-sixth and Madison Avenue. From 1910 Louis Diat ran the kitchens and "famously invented vichyssoise".
The Montreal Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Sherbrooke Street was built in 1912, but officially, it is not part of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chain.
Naples, Florida is the only city with two Ritz-Carlton hotels on the same road.
In 2005, Ritz-Carlton was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.
Ritz-Carlton offers fractional residences around the United States under the name Ritz-Carlton Club. Properties include Aspen Highlands and Bachelor Gulch in Colorado, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, San Francisco, CA and Jupiter, FL.
Highest hotel in the world
Ritz-Carlton will occupy the top 15 floors of the International Commerce Centre in Hong Kong. The hotel's lobby is at 425 meters (1,394 feet) above the ground, becoming the highest hotel in the world when completed, surpassing the Park Hyatt Hotel in the Shanghai World Financial Center in Pudong, Shanghai.
Awards
The Ritz-Carlton has been featured on Zagat Survey Top Lists for dining, hotels and service. The Dallas, TX and Wolfsburg Germany locations both received top honors from Zagat in 2009, including Top Large Hotel for the Dallas location.
