Marriott International’s first U.S. hotel under its AC upper-midscale brand will be in New Orleans. The AC Hotel New Orleans Bourbon Street will open in the old Cotton Exchange Building in October. Additional AC hotels are slated to open next year in Miami and Kansas City, Mo., in addition to Chicago. Marriott plans to open more than 30 AC hotels in the United States and Latin America during the next three years. Read the Travel Weekly story here