Central and Eastern Europe will account for 70 percent of the 4,400 rooms Marriott International will open in Europe this year. A few highlights: Marriott's Autograph Collection will open four hotels in Europe in 2016; AC Hotels will enter the United Kingdom in May with a property in each Manchester and Birmingham; Moxy Hotels will open five hotels by the end of 2016 and nine more in 2017; and the Marriott brand will open five across Germany, Belarus, Macedonia and Russia. The company will double its presence in Europe once it completes its acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, reaching 123,000 opened or signed rooms: Marriott's 61,000 open rooms, Starwood's 40,500 open rooms and their combined pipeline of 21,500 rooms.