The Ritz-Carlton is more than just a hotel. To the ladies and gentlemen who frequent the company's properties worldwide, it's a lifestyle — a desire to experience the best life has to offer, whether at home or while traveling.

To meet this expectation, The Ritz-Carlton magazine caters to its readers with compelling articles on the people, places, products and pastimes that make the modern world an interesting place to be. Like The Ritz-Carlton brand itself, the magazine mixes elegance and sophistication with a sense of energy and service that's unmatched.

The Ritz-Carlton magazine's modern design differentiates it from its competitors while also communicating the hotel company's No. 1 position in the marketplace. Not only will our magazine build and strengthen the relationship between The Ritz-Carlton and its guests, it will support and enhance the positioning of the brands within its pages.

Created around articles that are timely and relevant, The Ritz-Carlton magazine takes a fresh, original approach to imagery and typography with a color palette that makes reading each page a pleasure. Indeed, our magazine resonates deeply with discriminating readers — and its presence is undeniable. Guests are drawn to The Ritz-Carlton magazine and, in turn, to your advertisements. Without a doubt, products and services featured in The Ritz-Carlton magazine get noticed.

Essentials

• The Ritz-Carlton magazine is the largest in-room publication in the Five-Star Deluxe category
• The Ritz-Carlton is among the top five hotels in brand loyalty, as ranked by Business 2.0
• Published jointly by McMurry (No. 1 custom publisher in the U.S.) and Reader's Digest (most successful magazine in publishing history reaching 100 million readers around the world each month)

Recognition

• 2007, The Luxury Institute in its Annual Survey of Affluent Consumers awarded The Ritz-Carlton with the Number One Rating for "Best Customer Experience"
• Two-time winner of most prestigious luxury brand hotel per the Luxury Brand Status Index survey of Luxury Hotels from a sample of more than 500 households of America's wealthiest
• Two-time winner of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, an honor received by only one other American company
• Recipient of Folio's prestigious Gold Ozzie for "Best Custom Publishing Magazine Redesign", 2007 Maggie Awards "Best Color Editorial Feature", and 13 awards in 2007 and 2006 for outstanding design and editorial
• J.D. Powers ranked The Ritz-Carlton highest in guest satisfaction in the luxury market in 2007

Distribution

• More than 65 Ritz-Carlton properties worldwide
• A bonus distribution to all The Ritz-Carlton Clubs and Ritz-Carlton Residences
• Available for sale at all Ritz-Carlton boutiques and gift shops

Offering

• Award-winning design and editorial
• Local and global advertising opportunities

(From The Ritz-Carlton Magazine Media Kit)

Visit The Ritz-Carlton Magazine, Fall 2007 Download Page

You can download the publication in PDF format.

In this month's magazine:

Urbane Cowboy
Happy Trails, Old West Clichés — Dallas has Emerged as a Business, Fashion and Cultural Destination

My hometown of Austin has a venerated music and film scene and, every other year, the best free entertainment going: the goofball Texas Legislature. San Antonio is the center of Latino culture and home to the Alamo. Houston is all about energy and the space race. Fort Worth has high art and the state’s hat-and-cattle heritage. But what’s the unique selling proposition of Dallas? The cliché is outsized opulence and high-society hijinks, but the reality is more nuanced. Yes, everything’s bigger in the nation’s ninth-largest city, but there’s plenty to do on a small scale—and across a wide spectrum. When my wife and I and our kids (a spunky 10 and 6) spend a day in Big D, here’s what we like to do.

Tripping the art fantastic
We begin at the Nasher Sculpture Center, in the downtown arts district. This still-nascent indoor/outdoor museum exhibits some of the finest modern and contemporary sculpture on the planet—by the likes of Brancusi, Chamberlain, de Kooning, Judd, Serra and Twombly—collected over a lifetime by the late world-class philanthropists Raymond and Patsy Nasher. The Renzo Piano–designed building contains a comfortable and inviting 10,000-squarefoot gallery, but the real revelation is the one-and-a-half-acre garden out back—a wonderland for the eyes and imagination, with massive installations that you can walk through and among or just gaze at for hours. Rarely does an art space leave such a lasting impression; after making the full rounds the first time, I wanted to do it again. Immediately. And then come back the next week. ...

Emerald Ayes
Rich in History and as Colorful as the Culture Itself, Powerscourt in County Wicklow Captures the Irish Imagination

The Greater Good
A Report on the State of Grace: Are We Giving as Good as We’ve Got?

About Ritz-Carlton:

Ritz-Carlton is a brand of luxury hotel and resort with 70 properties that are located in major cities and exclusive resort destinations of 23 countries worldwide. The Ritz-Carlton brand is managed by the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company LLC, a subsidiary of Marriott International. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company has currently 32,000 employees.

The Montreal Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Sherbrooke Street was built in 1912, but officially, it is not part of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Chain.

The first Ritz-Carlton Hotel was built in Boston in 1927.

The New York Ritz-Carlton was located at Forty-sixth and Madison Avenue. From 1910 Louis Diat ran the kitchens and "famously invented vichyssoise".

Naples Florida is the only city with two Ritz-Carlton's on the same road.

The Ritz-Carlton headquarters are found in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C..

In 2005, Ritz-Carlton was among 53 entities that contributed the maximum of $250,000 to the second inauguration of President George W. Bush.

Ritz-Carlton offers fractional residences around the United States under the name Ritz-Carlton Club. Properties include Aspen Highlands and Bachelor Gulch in Colorado, St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, San Francisco, CA and Jupiter, FL. (Wikipedia.org)

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