DiamondRock Hospitality Company

www.drhc.com/http://www.drhc.com/


DiamondRock Hospitality Company is a lodging focused real estate company that owns a portfolio of 23 premium hotels and resorts that contain approximately 10,700 rooms. We also hold a senior note on a 443-room hotel.



We are an owner, as opposed to an operator, of hotels. As an owner, we receive all of the operating profits or losses generated by our hotels, after we pay fees to the hotel manager, which are based on the revenues and profitability of the hotels.



Our vision is to be the premier allocator of capital in the lodging industry. Our mission is to deliver long-term shareholder returns through a combination of dividends and long-term capital appreciation. Our strategy is to utilize disciplined capital allocation and focus on acquiring, owning, and measured recycling of high quality, branded lodging properties in North America with superior long-term growth prospects and high barrier-to-entry for new supply. In addition, we are committed to enhancing the value of our platform by being open and transparent in our communications with investors, monitoring our corporate overhead and following sound corporate governance practices.



Consistent with our strategy, we continue to focus on opportunistically investing in premium full-service hotels and, to a lesser extent, premium urban limited-service hotels located throughout North America. Our portfolio of 23 hotels is concentrated in key gateway cities and in destination resort locations and are all operated under a brand owned by one of the leading global lodging brand companies (Marriott International, Inc. (“Marriott”), Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. (“Starwood”) or Hilton Worldwide (“Hilton”).



We differentiate ourselves from our competitors because of our adherence to three basic principles:


high-quality urban-and resort-focused branded hotel real estate;


conservative capital structure; and

thoughtful asset management.

We began operations in July 2004 and became a public reporting company in May 2005. We are listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "DRH".

Click here to view the 2009 Annual Report and 2010 Proxy

DiamondRock Hospitality Company 3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 1500, Bethesda, Maryland 20814,


Telephone No.: (240) 744-1150






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