Gaylord Hotels is the large convention hotel brand of

Marriott International Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational corporation, multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging brands that include hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. Marriott International owns over 37 ho ...

. As of 2024, it consists of five large

hotel A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. Facilities provided inside a hotel room may range from a modest-quality mattress in a small room to large suites with bigger, higher-quality beds, a dresser, a re ...

s with a total of 9,918 rooms, along with attached

convention center A convention center (American and British English spelling differences, American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a Convention (meeting), convention, where individuals and groups ...

s and one overflow support hotel property, in addition to one hotel with 1,903 rooms in the pipeline. The properties are owned by

Ryman Hospitality Properties Ryman Hospitality Properties, Inc. is a hotel, resort, entertainment, and Mass media, media company named for one of its assets: the Ryman Auditorium, a National Historic Landmark in Nashville, Tennessee. The company's legal lineage can be trace ...

, Inc.

History

Ryman Hospitality was named Gaylord Entertainment Company, before changing its name and handing over the management of the hotels to Marriott. Until the Nashville hotel's 1996 expansion to almost 3,000 rooms and subsequent announcement of a future Opryland Hotel Florida, the hospitality group was a modest division of the

Opryland USA Opryland USA (later called Opryland Themepark and colloquially known as Opryland) was a amusement park, theme park in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The park was located between the Cumberland River and Tennessee State Route 155, Briley Pa ...

properties of Gaylord Entertainment. From 2002 to 2009, Gaylord Hotels was the primary sponsor of the

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, a postseason

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game held each year in Nashville. As of 2011, the company continues to be a secondary sponsor. In 2010, Gaylord struck a deal with DreamWorks Animation to create character breakfasts and other activities with Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and other DreamWorks characters. On May 31, 2012,

agreed to buy the rights to manage Gaylord's four hotels for $210 million in cash.

Properties

Gaylord Rockies hotel - southern exterior - April 2024

As of 2025, Gaylord Hotels maintains the following properties: * Gaylord Opryland in

Nashville, Tennessee Nashville, often known as Music City, is the capital and List of municipalities in Tennessee, most populous city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat, seat of Davidson County, Tennessee, Davidson County in Middle Tennessee, locat ...

* Gaylord Palms in

Kissimmee, Florida Kissimmee ( ) is the largest city and county seat of Osceola County, Florida, Osceola County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 79,226. It is a principal city of the Greater Orlando, O ...

* Gaylord Texan in

Grapevine, Texas Grapevine is a city located in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, United States, with minor portions extending into Dallas County, Texas, Dallas and Denton County, Texas, Denton counties. Its population was 50,631 in the 2020 United States Census, ...

* Gaylord National in

National Harbor, Maryland National Harbor is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince George's County, Maryland, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located along the Potomac River near the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and just south of Washington, D.C. It originat ...

* Gaylord Rockies in

Aurora, Colorado Aurora (, ) is a List of municipalities in Colorado#Home rule municipality, home rule city located in Arapahoe County, Colorado, Arapahoe, Adams County, Colorado, Adams, and Douglas County, Colorado, Douglas List of counties in Colorado, counti ...

* Gaylord Pacific in

Chula Vista, California Chula Vista ( ; , ) is a city in San Diego County, California, United States. It is the second-most populous city in the San Diego metropolitan area, the Largest cities in Southern California, seventh-most populous city in Southern California ...

(expected opening Spring 2025)

Business figures

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Marriott International brands Franchises Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee American companies established in 1977 Hotels established in 1977 1977 establishments in Tennessee Ryman Hospitality Properties Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange