Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc. operates as a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust, which owns hotels and conducts operations through Host L.P. The Company is an owner of luxury and upper-upscale hotels. It operates through a single segment, hotel ownership. Its hotels operate in urban and resort markets either as luxury properties under brand names, such as 1 Hotels, Alila, Andaz, Fairmont, Four Seasons, Grand Hyatt, JW Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, St. Regis, The Don Cesar, The Luxury Collection and W, or as upper upscale properties under such brand names as Autograph Collection, Curio - A Collection by Hilton, Embassy Suites by Hilton, Hilton, Hyatt Regency, Marriott, Marriott Marquis, Sheraton, Swissotel, Tribute Portfolio and Westin. The Company's lodging portfolio consists of 77 primarily luxury and upper-upscale hotels containing approximately 42,000 rooms. The Company also holds non-controlling interests in seven domestic and one international joint venture.