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Host Marriott Reports Results of Operations for First Quarter 2003

Host Marriott Reports Results of Operations for First Quarter 2003

04/30/2003

BETHESDA, Md., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Host Marriott Corporation (NYSE: HMT), the nation's largest lodging real estate investment trust (REIT), today announced results of operations for the first quarter of 2003. The first quarter results reflect the difficult operating environment due to the war in Iraq and a generally weak economy that has resulted in reduced group and business travel. First quarter results include the following:

    * The Company's diluted loss per share was $.16 for the first quarter 2003
      versus a diluted loss per share of $.03 for the first quarter of 2002.
    * Total revenue was $805 million for the first quarter of 2003 versus $787
      million for the first quarter of 2002, and the net loss available to
      common shareholders was $43 million for the first quarter of 2003 and $8
      million for the first quarter of 2002.
    * Comparative Funds From Operations, or Comparative FFO, was $.16 per
      diluted share for the first quarter 2003 versus $.24 per diluted
      share for the first quarter of 2002.
    * Earnings before Interest Expense, Income Taxes, Depreciation and
      Amortization and other non-cash items, or EBITDA, was $175 million for
      the first quarter 2003 versus $204 million for the first quarter of
      2002.

Comparative FFO and EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures within the meaning of Securities and Exchange Commission rules and their use is discussed in more detail on page 4 of this release.

Operating Results

Comparable RevPAR for the first quarter declined 5.5% as a result of a 2.4% reduction in average room rate and an occupancy decline of 2.3 percentage points. Operating profit margin and comparable hotel-level EBITDA margin decreased 3.8 percentage points and 3.9 percentage points, respectively.

Christopher J. Nassetta, president and chief executive officer, stated, "We are pleased we have been able to achieve results that were in accordance with our guidance for the first quarter despite the difficult operating environment that has been significantly impacted by the build up to, and the war in Iraq, the increased terror threat levels and the overall weak economy."

Balance Sheet

As of March 28, 2003, the Company had $313 million in cash on hand and $300 million of availability under its credit facility. The Company has no significant refinancing requirements until 2005 and does not believe that it will need to borrow under the credit facility in 2003.

W. Edward Walter, executive vice president and chief financial officer, stated, "Consistent with our financial strategy for the last 18 months, we will continue to maintain high cash reserves, which combined with limited debt maturities over the next two years, maximizes our financial flexibility in this challenging operating environment and positions us to be able to take advantage of opportunities that arise in the future."

2003 Outlook

The Company's updated guidance for RevPAR for full year 2003 is for a decline of approximately 2% to 3% and a second quarter RevPAR decline of approximately 6% to 8%. Based upon this guidance, the Company estimates the following:

    * Diluted loss per share should be approximately $.57 to $.65 for the full
      year and approximately $.09 to $.12 for the second quarter;
    * Net loss available to common shareholders should be approximately $153
      million to $174 million for the full year and approximately $24 million
      to $32 million for the second quarter;
    * Comparative FFO per share should be approximately $.73 to $.81 for the
      full year and approximately $.20 to $.23 for the second quarter; and
    * EBITDA should be approximately $750 million to $775 million for the full
      year.

Based upon the current outlook, the Company expects that it is unlikely that it will pay a meaningful dividend on its common stock in 2003.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities regulations. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated at the time the forward-looking statements are made. These risks include, but are not limited to: national and local economic and business conditions that will affect occupancy rates at our hotels and the demand for hotel products and services; threats of terrorism that affect travel patterns and demand for hotels; operating risks associated with the hotel business; risks associated with the level of our indebtedness and our ability to meet covenants in our debt agreements; relationships with property managers; our ability to maintain our properties in a first-class manner, including meeting capital expenditure requirements; our ability to compete effectively in areas such as access, location, quality of accommodations and room rate structures; changes in travel patterns, taxes and government regulations which influence or determine wages, prices, construction procedures and costs; and our ability to continue to satisfy complex rules in order for us to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. For further information regarding risks and uncertainties associated with our business, please refer to the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Although the Company believes the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based upon reasonable assumptions, it can give no assurance that the expectations will be attained or that any deviation will not be material. All information in this release is as of April 29, 2003 and the Company undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement to conform the statement to actual results or changes in the Company's expectations.

Host Marriott is a Fortune 500 lodging real estate company that currently owns or holds controlling interests in 122 upscale and luxury hotel properties primarily operated under premium brands, such as Marriott, Ritz-Carlton, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Swissotel and Hilton. For further information, please visit the Company's website at www.hostmarriott.com.

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The Company

Host Marriott Corporation, herein referred to as we or Host Marriott, is primarily the owner of hotel properties. We operate as a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust (REIT). We conduct our operations as an umbrella partnership REIT through an operating partnership, Host Marriott, L.P., or Host LP, of which we are the sole general partner. For each share of our common stock, Host LP has issued to us one unit of operating partnership interest, or OP Unit. When distinguishing between Host Marriott and Host LP, the primary difference is the 10% partnership interests of Host LP held by outside partners as of March 28, 2003, which is reflected as minority interest in our balance sheet and minority interest expense in our statement of operations. Readers are encouraged to find further detail regarding our organizational structure in our annual report on Form 10-K.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

Included in this press release are non-GAAP financial measures within the meaning of applicable Securities and Exchange Commission rules that we believe are useful to investors. They are as follows: Comparative Funds From Operations, which we refer to as Comparative FFO, Earnings Before Interest Expense, Income Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization and other non-cash items, or EBITDA, and comparable hotel-level results.

FFO and EBITDA

Historical cost accounting for real estate assets implicitly assumes that the value of real estate assets diminish predictably over time. Since real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with market conditions, most industry investors have considered presentation of operating results for real estate companies that use historical cost accounting to be misleading or uninformative. The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT, adopted the definition of Funds From Operations, or FFO, in order to promote an industry-wide standard measure of REIT operating performance that would not have certain drawbacks associated with net income under accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP. NAREIT defines FFO as net income (computed in accordance with GAAP) excluding gains (or losses) from sales of real estate and real estate-related depreciation and amortization, and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures. Our definition of Comparative FFO is FFO adjusted for significant non-recurring items. We adjust FFO for the tax effect of significant non-recurring items such as the repurchase of the leasehold interests in 2000 and 2001 and tax refunds in 2002. We believe these adjustments to FFO allow our management to have a more accurate measure of our ongoing business for the purposes of budgeting and making decisions relating to future growth. We believe that the presentation of Comparative FFO provides useful information to investors regarding our financial condition and results of operations because it is a measure of our operating performance and our ability to fund capital expenditures and expand our business. In addition, the Compensation Policy Committee of the Board of Directors uses Comparative FFO as a measure of our performance in establishing criteria for compensation and in setting short-term and long-term performance goals for senior management.

Management believes that the presentation of EBITDA also provides useful information to investors regarding our financial condition and results of operations because EBITDA is useful for evaluating our capacity to incur and service debt, fund capital expenditures and to expand our business. Specifically, our lenders and the rating agencies believe that EBITDA is a better measure of unleveraged cash flow that can be isolated by asset and is utilized to determine our ability to service debt and overall property performance. Restrictive covenants in our senior notes indenture and in our credit facility each contain financial ratios based on EBITDA. Management also uses EBITDA as one measure in determining the value of acquisitions and dispositions and, like Comparative FFO, it is also widely used in our annual budget process. We remove non-cash items from EBITDA, which include compensation expense for our comprehensive stock plans, gains on acquisitions and dispositions, income (loss) from equity investments, purchase tax benefits and fair market value adjustments for foreign currency and derivatives.

However, Comparative FFO and EBITDA, as presented, may not be comparable to measures calculated by other companies. This information should not be considered as an alternative to net income, operating profit, cash from operations, or any other operating performance measure prescribed by GAAP. Cash expenditures for various long-term assets, interest expense (for EBITDA purposes only) and other items have been and will be incurred and are not reflected in the EBITDA and Comparative FFO presentations.

Comparable Hotel-Level Results

We define our comparable hotels as properties that are owned or leased, directly or indirectly, by us and for which we reported operating results throughout 2003 and 2002. We exclude from our comparable operating results hotels that have been acquired or sold during 2003 or 2002, or that have had substantial property damage or that have undergone large scale capital projects. We also exclude rental and other income from non-hotel properties and the results of our leased limited service hotels.

Our operating results for our comparable hotels include unaudited hotel- level EBITDA and the EBITDA margin for these properties. We believe that the comparable hotel-level results help us and our investors evaluate the ongoing operating performance of our properties and facilitate comparisons with other REITs and hotel owners. These measures assist management by providing a baseline to assess property-level results, particularly as we acquire or sell assets. While these measures are based on GAAP, costs such as depreciation, corporate expenses, adjustments for non-comparable reporting periods and other non-core revenues and expenses have been incurred by us and are not reflected in this presentation. As a result, the comparable hotel-level results do not represent our total revenues or operating profit.

Reporting Period

Our operating results are based on a calendar year ended December 31 as required by tax laws relating to REITs. However, our quarterly results are reported on a quarterly schedule that is used by Marriott International, the manager of the majority of our properties, whose year ends on the Friday closest to December 31 and which reflect twelve weeks of operations for the first three quarters of the year and sixteen or seventeen weeks for the fourth quarter of the year. Therefore, in any given quarter, quarter-over-quarter results will have different ending periods. For example, the first quarter of 2003 ended on March 28 and the first quarter of 2002 ended on March 22. As a result, during the first quarter of 2003, we included 87 days of operations, while for first quarter of 2002, we included 81 days of operations.

Approximately one-fourth of our full-service hotels have managers that have a different quarterly accounting calendar from us. For these hotels, which record revenues on a monthly basis versus our four-week period, the accompanying consolidated financial statements reflect only two months of operations. We will record three months of operations for these hotels in each of the second and third quarters and four months of operations in the fourth quarter.

Our reported hotel operating statistics (RevPAR, average daily rate, average occupancy and hotel-level EBITDA margins) reflect the twelve weeks, or 84 days, ended March 28, 2003 and March 22, 2002 for our Marriott-managed hotels and two months of operations for our other managers in order to present these measures on a comparable basis.

 HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                       Consolidated Balance Sheets (a)
                (unaudited, in millions, except share amounts)

                                                   March 28,      December 31,
                                                     2003            2002

                   ASSETS
                                                 $   6,973 $   7,031
    Property and equipment, net                         53                53
    Notes and other receivables                         91                82
    Due from managers                                  127               133
    Investments in affiliates                          503               523
    Other assets                                       130               133
    Restricted cash                                    313               361
    Cash and cash equivalents                    $   8,190 $   8,316



        LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY

    Debt                                         $   3,236 $   3,247
     Senior notes                                    2,263             2,289
     Mortgage debt                                     102               102
     Other                                           5,601             5,638

    Accounts payable and accrued expenses              109               118
    Other liabilities                                  210               252
      Total liabilities                              5,920             6,008

    Minority interest                                  220               223
    Company-obligated mandatorily redeemable
     convertible preferred securities of a
     subsidiary whose sole assets are
     convertible subordinated debentures due
     2026 ("Convertible Preferred Securities")         475               475

    Shareholders' equity
    Cumulative redeemable preferred stock
     (liquidation preference $354 million),
     50 million shares authorized; 14.1
     million shares issued and outstanding             339               339
    Common stock, par value $.01, 750 million
     shares authorized; 264.5 million shares
     and 263.7 million shares issued and
     outstanding, respectively                           3                 3
    Additional paid-in capital                       2,100             2,100
    Accumulated other comprehensive
     income (loss)                                       6                (2)
    Accumulated deficit                               (873)             (830)
    Total shareholders' equity                       1,575             1,610
                                                 $   8,190 $   8,316

    (a) Our consolidated balance sheet as of March 28, 2003 has been prepared
        without audit.  Certain information and footnote disclosures normally
        included in financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP
        have been omitted.  The consolidated balance sheets should be read in
        conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes
        thereto included in the annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended
        December 31, 2002.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                  Consolidated Statements of Operations (a)
              (unaudited, in millions, except per share amounts)

                                                          Quarter ended
                                                    March 28,        March 22,
    Revenues                                          2003              2002
     Rooms                                       $     472 $     464
     Food and beverage                                 252               242
     Other                                              52                55
      Total hotel sales                                776               761
     Rental income (b)                                  27                26
     Other income                                        2                 -
      Total revenues                                   805               787


    Expenses
     Rooms                                             116               110
     Food and beverage                                 187               175
     Hotel departmental expenses                       215               195
     Management fees                                    33                36
     Other property-level expenses (b)                  71                62
     Depreciation and amortization                      88                83
     Corporate and other expenses                       14                17

    Operating profit                                    81               109
     Minority interest income (expense)                  1                (5)
     Interest income                                     3                 3
     Interest expense                                 (111)             (105)
     Net gains on property transactions                  1                 1
     Equity in losses of affiliates                     (6)               (4)
     Dividends on Convertible Preferred
      Securities                                        (7)               (7)

    Loss before income taxes                           (38)               (8)
    Benefit from (provision for) income taxes            4                (4)

    Loss from continuing operations                    (34)              (12)
    Income from discontinued operations (c)              -                13

    Net income (loss)                                  (34)                1

    Less:  preferred dividends                          (9)               (9)

    Net loss available to common shareholders      $   (43)          $    (8)

    Basic and diluted loss per common share        $ (0.16)          $ (0.03)

    (a) Our consolidated statements of operations have been prepared without
        audit.  Certain information and footnote disclosures normally included
        in financial statements presented in accordance with GAAP have been
        omitted.  The unaudited consolidated statements of operations should
        be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and
        notes thereto included in our annual report on Form 10-K for the year
        ended December 31, 2002.



    (b) Rental income and expense are as follows:
                                                        Quarter ended
                                              March 28, 2003 March 22, 2002

    Rental Income
     Full-service                               $   10 $   10
     Limited service                                16                 15
     Office buildings                                1                  1
                                                $   27 $   26
    Rental and Other Expenses (included
     in "Other property-level expenses")
     Full-service                               $    1 $    1
     Limited service                                16                 16
     Office buildings                                1                  -
                                                $   18 $   17

    (c) We adopted SFAS No. 144, "Accounting for the Impairment or Disposal of
        Long-Lived Assets," effective January 1, 2002. Gains and losses from
        all subsequent sales of real estate, as well as any income or loss
        from the property prior to disposal, are required to be recorded as
        discontinued operations. As a result, we have restated prior year
        periods to reflect operations of the Ontario Airport Marriott, which
        we sold during the first quarter of 2003 as discontinued operations.
        The $13 million of discontinued operations in the first quarter of
        2002 primarily relate to the St. Louis Marriott Pavilion which we
        disposed of in January 2002.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                            Earnings per Share (a)
              (unaudited, in millions, except per share amounts)

                                      Quarter ended          Quarter ended
                                     March  28, 2003 March 22, 2002

                                                  Per                    Per
                                Income  Shares   Share   Income Shares  Share
                                                 Amount                 Amount
    Net income (loss)             $(34)  264.3   $(0.13)   $1   263.5  $    -
    Dividends on preferred stock    (9)      -    (0.03)   (9)      -   (0.03)
    Basic and diluted loss        $(43)  264.3   $(0.16)  $(8)  263.5  $(0.03)

    (a) Basic earnings per common share is computed by dividing net income
        (loss) available to common shareholders by the weighted average number
        of shares of common stock outstanding. Diluted earnings (loss) per
        common share is computed by dividing net income (loss) available to
        common shareholders as adjusted for potentially dilutive securities,
        by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding
        plus other potentially dilutive securities. Dilutive securities may
        include shares granted under comprehensive stock plans, those
        preferred OP Units held by minority partners, other minority interests
        that have the option to convert their limited partnership interests to
        common OP Units and the Convertible Preferred Securities. All
        securities were anti-dilutive for all periods presented.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
       Reconciliation of Net Loss to Comparative Funds From Operations
               (unaudited, in millions, except per share basis)

                                        Quarter ended        Quarter ended
                                        March 28, 2003 March 22, 2002 (a)
                                                     Per                 Per
                                     Income Shares  Share Income Shares Share
                                                    Amount              Amount
    Net loss available to common
     shareholders                      $(43) 264.3  (0.16)  $(8) 263.5  (0.03)
    Adjustments to net loss:
     Loss from discontinued operations    -      -      -   (13)     -  (0.05)
     Depreciation and amortization       86      -   0.33    83      -   0.32
     Partnership adjustments              3      -   0.01     6      -   0.02
     Tax benefit of lease repurchase(b)   3      -   0.01     3      -   0.01
     Comparative Funds From Operations
      of minority partners of Host LP(c) (5)     -  (0.02)   (6)     -  (0.02)
    Adjustments to dilutive share
     count:(d)
     Assuming distributions of common
      shares granted under the
      comprehensive stock plan less
      shares assumed purchased at
      average market price                -    2.5  (0.01)    -    3.1  (0.01)
     Assuming conversion of Convertible
      Preferred Securities                -      -      -     7   30.9      -
    Diluted Comparative Funds From
     Operations(e)                      $44  266.8   0.16   $72  297.5   0.24

    (a) In accordance with the Securities and Exchange Commission guidance
        under Staff Accounting Bulletin 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial
        Statements," we do not recognize contingent rent as a component of net
        income until all contingencies have been met. Upon adoption of recent
        guidance related to non-GAAP financial measures, we have
        correspondingly excluded this contingent rent from our calculation of
        Comparative FFO for the first quarter of 2003 and 2002. We had
        previously included contingent rent as a component of Comparative FFO
        and we have restated first quarter 2002 Comparative FFO to reflect the
        adoption of this guidance.

    (b) This adjustment reflects the realization of the income tax benefit
        recognized as a result of the purchase of the 120 leasehold interests
        at year-end 2000 and during June 2001, which under the NAREIT
        definition of FFO would be excluded from the calculation of FFO.
        Excluding this adjustment, FFO would have been $41 million, or $.15
        per share, for the first quarter of 2003 and $69 million, or $.23 per
        share, for the first quarter of 2002.

    (c) This adjustment reflects the Comparative FFO attributable to the
        interests in Host LP.

    (d) The share count has not been adjusted for the minority common and
        preferred OP Units outstanding as they were antidilutive for all
        periods presented. For the quarter ended March 28, 2003 there were
        27.6 million weighted average units outstanding with a minority
        interest in Comparative FFO of $5 million. For the quarter ended March
        22, 2002 there were 21.5 million weighted average units outstanding
        with a minority interest in comparative FFO of $6 million. There would
        be no change in the reported Diluted Comparative FFO per share had
        these minority units been converted.

    (e) Diluted comparative funds from operations is computed by dividing
        comparative funds from operations as adjusted for potentially dilutive
        securities, by the weighted average number of shares of common stock
        outstanding plus other potentially dilutive securities. Dilutive
        securities may include shares granted under comprehensive stock plans,
        those preferred OP Units held by minority partners, other minority
        interests that have the option to convert their limited partnership
        interest to common OP Units and the Convertible Preferred Securities.
        No effect is shown for securities if they are anti-dilutive.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
         EBITDA and Comparative Funds From Operations Reconciliation
                for First Quarter 2003 and First Quarter 2002
                           (unaudited, in millions)

                                                          Quarter ended
                                                   March 28,         March 22,
                                                      2003              2002
    Net income (loss)                                $(34)               $1
     Income from discontinued operations                -               (13)
     Interest expense                                 111               105
     Dividends on Convertible Preferred
      Securities                                        7                 7
     Depreciation and amortization                     88                83
     Minority interest (income) expense                (1)                5
     Income taxes                                      (4)                4
     Equity in losses of affiliates                     6                 4
     Other changes, net (a)                             2                 8

    EBITDA of Host LP                                 175               204
     Distributions to minority interest
      partners of Host LP (b)                           -                 -

    EBITDA of Host Marriott                          $175 $204

    EBITDA of Host LP                                $175 $204
     Interest expense                                (111)             (105)
     Dividends on Convertible Preferred
      Securities                                       (7)               (7)
     Dividends on preferred stock                      (9)               (9)
     Income taxes                                       4                (4)
     Partnership adjustments and other                 (6)              (11)
     Tax benefit of lease repurchase (c)                3                 3

    Comparative Funds From Operations of
     Host LP                                           49                71
     Comparative Funds From Operations of
      minority partners of Host LP (d)                 (5)               (6)
    Comparative Funds From Operations of
     Host Marriott                                    $44 $65

    (a) We remove non-cash items from EBITDA, which include compensation
        expense for stock compensation plans, gains on acquisitions and
        dispositions, income (loss) from equity investments, purchase tax
        benefits and fair market value adjustments for foreign currency and
        derivatives.

    (b) Host Marriott held approximately 90% and 92% of the outstanding OP
        Units of Host LP at March 28, 2003 and March 22, 2002, respectively.
        The distributions to minority interest partners of Host LP reflect
        cash distributions made during the quarter to minority holders of OP
        Units and holders of certain preferred OP Units.

    (c) This adjustment reflects the realization of the income tax benefit as
        a result of the purchase of the 120 leasehold interests at year-end
        2000 and during June 2001.

    (d) This adjustment reflects the Comparative FFO attributable to the
        minority interest partners of Host LP.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
            EBITDA Reconciliation for Full Year 2003 Forecasts (a)
                           (unaudited, in millions)

                                                          Full Year 2003
                                                    Low-end          High-end
                                                    of Range          of Range
    Net income (loss)                             $   (138)         $   (118)
     Interest expense                                  469               469
     Dividends on Convertible Preferred
      Securities                                        32                32
     Depreciation and amortization                     377               377
     Minority interest (income) expense                 (8)               (6)
     Income taxes                                       (3)                2
     Equity in (earnings) losses of
      affiliates                                        13                13
     Other changes, net                                  8                 6

    EBITDA of Host LP                                  750               775
     Distributions to minority interest
      partners of Host LP                                -                 -

    EBITDA of Host Marriott                       $    750 $    775

    See notes on page 15.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
      Reconciliation of Diluted Earnings per Share to Comparative Funds
       From Operations per Share for Second Quarter 2003 Forecasts (a)
              (unaudited, in millions, except per share amounts)

                                                      Low-end of Range
                                                Second Quarter 2003 Forecast
                                              Income      Shares     Per Share
                                                                       Impact
    Forecast Diluted Loss available to
     common shareholders                   $    (32)    $  264.5     $  (0.12)
    Adjustments to net loss:
     Depreciation and amortization               86            -         0.32
     Partnership adjustments                      4            -         0.02
     Tax benefit of lease repurchase (b)          3            -         0.01
     Comparative Funds From Operations of
      minority partners of Host LP (c)           (7)           -        (0.02)
    Adjustment to dilutive share count: (d)
    Assuming distributions of common
      shares granted under the
      comprehensive stock plan, less
      shares assumed purchased at average
      market price                                -          2.5        (0.01)
    Forecast Diluted Comparative Funds
     From Operations                       $     54 $  267.0     $   0.20


                                                      High-end of Range
                                                Second Quarter 2003 Forecast
                                              Income      Shares     Per Share
                                                                       Impact
    Forecast Diluted Loss available to
     common shareholders                   $    (24)       264.5     $  (0.09)
    Adjustments to net loss:
     Depreciation and amortization               86            -         0.33
     Partnership adjustments                      4            -         0.02
     Tax benefit of lease repurchase (b)          3            -         0.01
     Comparative Funds From Operations of
      minority partners of Host LP (c)           (7)           -        (0.03)
    Adjustment to dilutive share count: (d)
    Assuming distributions of common
     shares granted under the
     comprehensive stock plan, less
     shares assumed purchased at average
     market price                                 -          2.5        (0.01)
    Forecast Diluted Comparative Funds
     From Operations                       $     62        267.0     $   0.23

    See notes on page 15.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
      Reconciliation of Diluted Earnings per Share to Comparative Funds
          From Operations per Share for Full Year 2003 Forecasts (a)
              (unaudited, in millions, except per share amounts)

                                                      Low-end of Range
                                                 Full Year 2003 Forecast
                                              Income      Shares     Per Share
                                                                      Impact
    Forecast Diluted Loss available to
     common shareholders                   $   (174)       267.0     $  (0.65)
    Adjustments to net loss:
     Depreciation and amortization              371            -         1.40
     Partnership adjustments                      7            -         0.03
     Tax benefit of lease repurchase (b)         12            -         0.04
     Comparative Funds From Operations of
      minority partners of Host LP (c)          (20)           -        (0.08)
    Adjustment to dilutive share count: (d)       -            -            -
    Assuming distributions of common
     shares granted under the
     comprehensive stock plan, less
     shares assumed purchased at average
     market price                                 -          2.5        (0.01)
    Forecast Diluted Comparative Funds
     From Operations                       $    196        269.5     $   0.73


                                                      High-end of Range
                                                  Full Year 2003 Forecast
                                               Income     Shares     Per Share
                                                                      Impact
    Forecast Diluted Loss available to
     common shareholders                   $   (153)       267.0     $  (0.57)
    Adjustments to net loss:
     Depreciation and amortization              371            -         1.40
     Partnership adjustments                      9            -         0.03
     Tax benefit of lease repurchase (b)         12            -         0.04
     Comparative Funds From Operations of
      minority partners of Host LP (c)          (22)           -        (0.08)
    Adjustment to dilutive share count: (d)       -            -            -
     Assuming distributions of common
      shares granted under the
      comprehensive stock plan, less
      shares assumed purchased at average
      market price                                -          2.5        (0.01)
    Forecast Diluted Comparative Funds
     From Operations                       $    217        269.5     $   0.81

    See notes on page 15.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
             Notes to Second Quarter and Full-Year 2003 Forecasts


    (a) The amounts shown in these reconciliations are based on
        management's estimate of operations for full year 2003 and the
        second quarter of 2003. These tables are forward-looking and as
        such contain assumptions by management based on known and unknown
        risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual
        transactions, results, performance or achievements to be materially
        different from any future transactions, results, performance or
        achievements expressed or implied by this table. General economic
        conditions, competition and governmental actions will
        affect future transactions, results performance and achievements.
        Although we believe the expectations reflected in this
        reconciliation are based upon reasonable assumptions, we can give
        no assurance that the expectations will be attained or that any
        deviations will not be material.

        For purposes of preparing the second quarter and full-year 2003
        forecasts, we have made the following assumptions:

            * RevPAR will decrease between 6% and 8% for the second quarter
              and decrease between 2% and 3% for the full year 2003 for the
              low and high ends of the forecasted ranges, respectively.

            * Comparable hotel-level EBITDA margins will decrease between
              2.0 percentage points and 2.5 percentage points for the full
              year 2003 for the low and high end of the forecasted ranges,
              respectively.

            * $175 million of hotels will be sold during 2003 and the
              proceeds are utilized to retire debt.

            * $210 million in renewal and replacement capital expenditures
              will be incurred during 2003.

            * Fully diluted shares will be 267.0 million and 269.5 million
              for the second quarter and full year, respectively.

    (b) This adjustment reflects the realization of the income tax benefit
        recognized as a result of the purchase of the 120 leasehold
        interests at year-end 2000 and during June 2001.

    (c) Represents the Comparative FFO attributable to the interest in Host LP
        held by the minority partners during 2003.

    (d) These shares are dilutive for purposes of the Comparative FFO per
        share calculation, yet are anti-dilutive for the purposes of the
        earnings per share calculation. This is due to the net loss that is
        forecasted for 2003 compared to net earnings for FFO for the year.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                             Other Financial Data
          (unaudited, in millions, except per share and ratio data)

                                                   March 28,      December 31,
                                                     2003            2002
    Equity
    Common shares outstanding                        264.5             263.7
    Common shares and minority-held
     common OP Units outstanding                     292.1             291.5
    Preferred OP Units outstanding                    0.02              0.02
    Class A Preferred stock outstanding                4.1               4.1
    Class B Preferred stock outstanding                4.0               4.0
    Class C Preferred stock outstanding                6.0               6.0

    Security pricing:
      Share price-common (a)                    $     6.92 $     8.85
      Share price-Class A Preferred (a)         $    22.80 $    26.15
      Share price-Class B Preferred (a)         $    22.50 $    25.65
      Share price-Class C Preferred (a)         $    22.25 $    25.70
      Share price-Convertible Preferred
       Securities (a)                           $    33.13 $    36.94

    Dividends per share
     Common (b)                                 $        -        $        -
     Class A Preferred (c)                      $    0.625        $     2.50
     Class B Preferred (c)                      $    0.625        $     2.50
     Class C Preferred (c)                      $    0.625        $     2.50

    Debt
     Percentage of fixed rate debt                     90%               90%
     Weighted average interest rate                   7.8%              7.9%
     Weighted average debt maturity              5.3 years         5.5 years
     Credit facility, outstanding balance       $        -        $        -


    Other Financial Data
     Construction in progress                   $       46 $       39

    (a) Share prices are the closing price on the balance sheet date, as
        reported by the New York Stock Exchange for the common and preferred
        stock. The shares of Convertible Preferred Securities are not traded
        on an exchange. Our Convertible Preferred Securities per share price
        is deemed to be the higher of the buy or sell price as provided by the
        trading desk for Goldman Sachs in New York, New York.

    (b) We did not declare a common stock dividend in the first quarter of
        2003 or in full year 2002.

    (c) Dividends reflect a quarterly cash dividend of $.625 per share for the
        Class A, Class B and Class C Preferred Stock or $2.50 on an annual
        basis.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                            Hotel Operational Data
                        Comparable Property Statistics
                                 (unaudited)

                        As of March 28, 2003    Quarter ended March 28, 2003

                                                          Average
                                                         Occupancy
                           No. of     No. of   Average    Percent-
                         Properties   Rooms   Daily Rate   ages     RevPAR (a)
    Atlanta                   15      6,563   $ 139.05     68.6%  $  95.43
    DC Metro                  13      4,998     137.43     65.0      89.33
    Florida                   13      7,582     175.18     77.0     134.96
    International              6      2,552     105.25     67.3      70.87
    Mid-Atlantic               9      6,222     167.28     69.6     116.50
    Mountain                   8      3,313     115.19     65.1      75.00
    New England                6      2,277     114.61     55.0      63.09
    North Central             15      5,395     112.83     60.1      67.85
    Pacific                   22     11,526     157.00     66.5     104.42
    South Central             12      6,514     133.43     77.8     103.76
    All Regions              119     56,942     144.66     68.6      99.26


                          Other Portfolio Statistics

                        As of March 28, 2003    Quarter ended March 28, 2003

                                                          Average
                                                         Occupancy
                           No. of     No. of   Average    Percent-
                         Properties   Rooms   Daily Rate   ages     RevPAR (a)
    Ritz-Carlton (b)          9       3,536    $ 254.66    64.3%   $ 157.98 HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                            Hotel Operational Data
                        Comparable Property Statistics
                                 (unaudited)

                                  Quarter ended March 22, 2002

                                        Average
                                       Occupancy                  Percent
                           Average      Percent-                 Change in
                         Daily Rate      ages       RevPAR (a)    RevPAR
    Atlanta $ 142.84        69.2%     $  98.78        -3.4%
    DC Metro               134.90        62.8         84.74         5.4
    Florida                173.41        79.7        138.15        -2.3
    International          109.25        65.4         71.45        -0.8
    Mid-Atlantic           176.77        76.2        134.69       -13.5
    Mountain               128.20        68.5         87.84       -14.6
    New England            117.02        57.9         67.81        -7.0
    North Central          112.40        62.0         69.64        -2.6
    Pacific                158.51        70.3        111.47        -6.3
    South Central          140.37        78.7        110.50        -6.1
    All Regions            148.28        70.9        105.09        -5.5


                          Other Portfolio Statistics

                                  Quarter ended March 22, 2002

                                         Average                    Percent
                           Average      Occupancy                  Change in
                         Daily Rate    Percentages    RevPAR (a)    RevPAR
    Ritz-Carlton (b)      $ 241.68        66.2%       $ 159.91       -1.2%

    (a) RevPAR represents room revenue per available room, which measures daily
        room revenues generated on a per room basis, excluding food and
        beverage revenues or other ancillary revenues generated by the
        properties.

    (b) Includes nine Ritz-Carlton properties owned by us for all periods
        presented, excluding The Ritz-Carlton, Naples Golf Resort, which was
        placed in service in January 2002.



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                            Hotel Operational Data
                Property Statistics by Region (All Properties)
                                 (unaudited)

                        As of March 28, 2003    Quarter ended March 28, 2003

                                                          Average
                                                         Occupancy
                           No. of     No. of   Average    Percent-
                         Properties   Rooms   Daily Rate   ages     RevPAR (a)
    Atlanta                   15      6,563   $ 139.05     68.6%  $  95.43
    DC Metro                  13      4,998     137.43     65.0      89.33
    Florida                   14      7,877     179.05     76.8     137.49
    International              6      2,552     105.25     67.3      70.87
    Mid-Atlantic              10      6,726     169.71     69.7     118.27
    Mountain                   8      3,313     115.19     65.1      75.00
    New England                7      3,416     129.98     60.6      78.82
    North Central             15      5,395     112.83     60.1      67.85
    Pacific                   22     11,526     156.44     66.6     104.18
    South Central             12      6,514     133.43     77.8     103.76
    All Regions              122     58,880     145.89     68.7     100.20


                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                            Hotel Operational Data
                Property Statistics by Region (All Properties)
                                 (unaudited)

                                  Quarter ended March 22, 2002

                                        Average
                                       Occupancy                  Percent
                           Average      Percent-                 Change in
                         Daily Rate      ages       RevPAR (a)    RevPAR
    Atlanta $ 142.84        69.2%     $  98.78        -3.4%
    DC Metro               134.90        62.8         84.74         5.4
    Florida                176.57        79.2        139.92        -1.7
    International          109.25        65.4         71.45        -0.8
    Mid-Atlantic           175.57        75.4        132.32       -10.6
    Mountain               128.14        68.5         87.80       -14.6
    New England            117.02        57.9         67.81        16.2
    North Central          112.40        62.0         69.64        -2.6
    Pacific                157.25        70.5        110.88        -6.0
    South Central          139.51        77.5        108.05        -4.0
    All Regions            148.55        70.7        105.04        -4.6



                          HOST MARRIOTT CORPORATION
                Schedule of Comparable Hotel-Level Results (a)
              (unaudited, in millions, except hotel statistics)

                                                          Quarter ended
                                                   March 28,         March 22,
                                                      2003              2002
    Number of hotels                                   119               119
    Number of rooms                                 56,942            56,942
    Percent change in Comparable RevPAR              -5.5%                 -
    Operating profit margin under GAAP (b)           10.1%              13.9%
    Comparable hotel-level EBITDA margin (b)         23.3%              27.2%

    Revenues
     Room                                         $    445 $    471
     Food and beverage                                 238               248
     Other                                              53                58
        Hotel sales (c)                                736               777

    Expenses
     Room                                              108               111
     Food and beverage                                 174               176
     Other                                              30                31
     Management fees, ground rent and
      other costs                                      253               248
        Hotel expenses                                 565               566

    Comparable Hotel-Level EBITDA                      171               211

     Non-comparable hotel results, net (d)              10                (2)
     Office building and limited service
      properties, net                                    -                 -
     Other income                                        2                 -
     Depreciation and amortization                     (88)              (83)
     Corporate and other expenses                      (14)              (17)

    Operating Profit (b)                          $     81 $    109

    (a) We consider 119 of our hotels to be comparable properties for the
        periods presented. The three non-comparable properties that we
        currently own for the periods presented are the New York Financial
        Center Marriott (substantially damaged in the September 11, 2001
        terrorist attacks and re-opened in January 2002), the Boston Marriott
        Copley Place (acquired in June 2002), and The Ritz-Carlton, Naples
        Golf Resort (opened January 2002).

    (b) Operating profit margins under GAAP are calculated from our
        consolidated statement of operations on page 7 and are based on
        operating profit of $81 million and $109 million, respectively,
        divided by total revenues of $805 million and $787 million,
        respectively, for the first quarters of 2003 and 2002. Comparable
        hotel-level EBITDA margins are calculated based on comparable hotel-
        level EBITDA of $171 million and $211 million, respectively, divided
        by comparable hotel sales of $736 million and $777 million,
        respectively, for the first quarters of 2003 and 2002.

(c) The reconciliation of hotel sales per the consolidated statements of operations to the comparable hotel sales is as follows:

                                                          Quarter Ended
                                                   March 28,         March 22,
                                                      2003              2002
    Hotel sales per the consolidated
     statement of operations                     $     776 $     761
    Non-comparable hotel sales                         (45)              (24)
    Hotel sales included in rental income
     in the consolidated statement of
     operations                                         22                21
    Adjustment for hotel sales for comparable
     properties to reflect twelve weeks of
     operations for Marriott-managed hotels            (17)               19
       Hotel sales for comparable properties     $     736 $     777

    (d) Non-comparable hotel results, net, includes operations for our non-
        comparable hotels described in note (a), as well as $2 million and
        $(4) million, respectively, of operating profit for the first quarter
        of 2003 and 2002 related to calendar year-end adjustments for our
        Marriott-managed hotels discussed on page 5. Hotel sales and expenses
        for our non-comparable properties were $45 million and $36 million,
        respectively, for the first quarter of 2003 and $24 million and $22
        million, respectively, for the first quarter of 2002.

SOURCE  Host Marriott Corporation
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    /CONTACT:  Greg Larson, Senior VP of Investor Relations of Host Marriott
Corporation, +1-240-744-5120/
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