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<STREET1>10400 FERNWOOD ROAD
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<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Washington, D.C. 20549 </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="5"><B>SCHEDULE 14A INFORMATION </B></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="3"><B>Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14(a) of the </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT
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</B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:24px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:2%; text-indent:-2%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Filed by the
Registrant&nbsp;&nbsp;<FONT STYLE="FONT-FAMILY:WINGDINGS">&#168;</FONT>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Filed by a
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">April&nbsp;17, 2012 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dear Marriott Shareholder: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Earlier this month you received the proxy statement
for the Marriott International, Inc. 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, scheduled for May&nbsp;4, 2012. In the proxy statement, the Board of Directors recommends a vote &#147;For&#148; the advisory resolution approving executive compensation (Item
3). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">To our disappointment, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS) has recommended that its clients vote against
Item&nbsp;3. In contrast, another proxy advisory firm, Glass, Lewis&nbsp;&amp; Co., Inc., has recommended votes &#147;For&#148; Item&nbsp;3. In its report, Glass Lewis states that &#147;the Company has adequately aligned executive pay and corporate
performance in the past year&#148; and &#147;[o]verall, the Company maintains a well-designed executive compensation program.&#148; </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The purpose of this letter is to explain why a vote &#147;For&#148; Item&nbsp;3 is appropriate. </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ISS Uses an Inappropriate Peer Group </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ISS notes that Mr.&nbsp;Marriott&#146;s compensation is 1.23 times the median of the Company&#146;s peers. However, the peer group selected by ISS to benchmark our executive compensation includes
companies that are inappropriate and ignores our closest lodging competitors. The ISS peer group includes companies in unrelated businesses, including four automotive retail and automotive parts companies. We do not believe investors view these
companies as similar in size and industry sector to our lodging management and franchise business. One selected peer, Penske Automotive Group has a market capitalization that is less than 20% of Marriott&#146;s and another, Icahn Industries LP, is
not a Russell 3000 company. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In addition, despite the Company&#146;s specific request to ISS, the ISS peer group does not
include either Starwood Hotels&nbsp;&amp; Resorts Worldwide or Hyatt Hotels, which are more comparable public company competitors. In contrast, when ISS evaluated Starwood&#146;s executive compensation program, in a report issued on April&nbsp;11,
2012, ISS did not select any of the four automotive retail and parts companies as peer companies but did include Marriott as one of Starwood&#146;s peer companies. As a result, the median CEO compensation of the ISS-selected peer group for Starwood
was $11.6 million, which is slightly <I>higher </I>than Mr.&nbsp;Marriott&#146;s 2011 compensation and 22.7% higher than the median CEO compensation of the ISS-selected peer group for Marriott. We believe this further demonstrates that ISS&#146;s
conclusion that there was a pay-for-performance disconnect at Marriott resulting from &#147;relatively high compensation&#148; is a consequence of ISS&#146;s peer group selection, and that Mr.&nbsp;Marriott&#146;s 2011 compensation was appropriate
when compared to other companies in Marriott&#146;s industry sector. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>ISS Fails to Adequately Recognize the Favorable Impact of the
Timeshare Spin-Off to Shareholder Value </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">ISS asserts that there is a &#147;pay for performance&#148; disconnect as a result
of the decision by the Board&#146;s Compensation Policy Committee (the &#147;Committee&#148;) to make several adjustments related to the spin-off of our timeshare business to the financial metric (earnings per share) used to assess Company
performance under the 2011 annual incentive plan. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The timeshare spin-off was announced on February&nbsp;14, 2011, and was
completed on November&nbsp;21, 2011. The transaction was structured to generate substantial benefits to the Company, including cash tax benefits, cash proceeds from preferred equity issued by Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (VAC) and future
VAC payments for Marriott rewards, as well as ongoing royalty fees from VAC. In the spin-off, for every ten shares of Marriott stock held, Company shareholders received one share of VAC, which was trading at approximately $28.71 per share as of
April&nbsp;12, 2012. </FONT></P>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company believed the timeshare spin-off would enhance the value of the Company by
improving the Company&#146;s return on invested capital, furthering the Company&#146;s longstanding strategy to separate ownership from management and franchise operations, and simplifying the company&#146;s investment story. Management further
believed the timeshare spin-off would enhance the value of VAC as the merits of that business would be more evident as a standalone business. Finally, the transaction gave shareholders choice, by allowing them to invest in either or both companies
rather than one combined organization. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We believe that the successful completion of the VAC spin-off, together with the
strength of the Company&#146;s underlying business, is reflected in the Company&#146;s stock price performance since the date of the spin-off, which has substantially outperformed the market. From November&nbsp;20, 2011 (pre-spin) through
April&nbsp;12, 2012, stock prices for the Company and VAC combined are up 34 percent, Starwood Hotels&nbsp;&amp; Resorts&#146; stock price is up 18 percent and the S&amp;P is up 16 percent. Year to date in 2012, the Company&#146;s stock price
(alone) is up 29 percent, Starwood Hotels&nbsp;&amp; Resorts&#146; stock price is up 17 percent and the S&amp;P is up 10 percent. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Despite these results, the ISS analysis fails to recognize the positive impact of the Company&#146;s successful spin-off of our timeshare operations and has the effect of penalizing the Company for taking
into account non-cash charges incurred in connection with the timeshare spin-off when determining annual EPS performance. ISS speculates that the effect of these spin-off related charges on net income likely was a key factor that affected the
Company&#146;s stock price performance for the year. In fact, as discussed in our year-end earnings release, excluding the effect of timeshare spin-off adjustments, adjusted net income for 2011 reflected a 23 percent increase over full year 2010
adjusted net income. In our earnings release, we noted the dramatic increase in return on invested capital and our meaningful top line growth in our lodging business in 2011. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We believe that in the context of significant transactions like the timeshare spin-off, adjustments are appropriate to ensure an &#147;apples-to-apples&#148; comparison of budget targets and actual
results. The adjustments disclosed in the Company&#146;s proxy statement were made to exclude the portion of budgeted timeshare earnings after the spin-off on November&nbsp;21, 2011, as well as certain non-cash impairment charges, transaction
expenses and tax costs that were recorded in connection with the spin-off. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Marriott&#146;s Compensation Programs are Tied to the
Company&#146;s Long-Term Value </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Marriott&#146;s annual and long-term incentive awards are designed to promote shareholder
value creation and sustainable, quality earnings over the long term. Annual incentive awards are primarily tied to financial goals (EPS), as well as objective, pre-established non-financial goals (e.g., room growth, associate engagement, guest
satisfaction, and RevPAR Index) that are key drivers of long-term value in the hospitality industry. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The Company also grants
long-term equity incentives in the form of stock appreciation rights and stock awards. With four-year vesting requirements, these equity-based awards help the Company achieve its objectives of attracting and retaining key executive talent, linking
Named Executive Officer (NEO) pay to Company stock performance and aligning the long-term interests of NEOs </FONT></P>
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with those of shareholders. In particular, executives do not receive any value from stock appreciation rights unless our stock price increases. Both the four-year vesting requirements and the
ten-year exercise term for stock appreciation rights encourage management to take a long-term perspective when addressing business decisions such as our timeshare spin-off. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Finally, the Company emphasizes a long-term perspective through its stock ownership guidelines, which require each executive to own Company stock with total value equal to a multiple of between one to
four times (depending upon the executive&#146;s position) his or her individual salary grade midpoint within five years of becoming subject to the guidelines. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Conclusion </B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The spin-off of the timeshare business generated substantial
shareholder value. Mr.&nbsp;Marriott&#146;s compensation is reasonable compared to that of our direct competitors. Our compensation programs are appropriately tied to a variety of long-term performance criteria, and not just near term stock
performance. For these reasons, we believe that Marriott&#146;s compensation programs have historically and continue to align pay with performance, and we strongly urge you to vote &#147;For&#148; the advisory resolution approving executive
compensation (Item&nbsp;3). </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px" ALIGN="center"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I>THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS RECOMMENDS THAT</I></B> </FONT></P>
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