DiamondRock Hospitality is a lodging-focused real estate investment (REIT) company that owns a portfolio of hotels and resort. Co.'s hotels are operated under a brand owned by one of the lodging brand companies (Marriott International, Inc., or Hilton Worldwide). Co. conducts its business through an umbrella partnership REIT, in which its hotel properties are owned by its operating partnership, DiamondRock Hospitality Limited Partnership, or subsidiaries of its operating partnership. Co. is the sole general partner of its operating partnership and owns, either directly or indirectly, all of the limited partnership units of its operating partnership.