| Breaking news, 08 Apr 2008 |
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NEW YORK – Sheraton Hotels & Resorts, under Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is initiating the most aggressive global expansion in the brand's history, with 54 hotels scheduled to open and 20,000 new rooms to be added to the brand by 2009.
In 2008, Sheraton will open one hotel every 12 days in cities and regions around the world including Dallas, Denver, Minneapolis, Phoenix and metropolitan Washington, D.C. in the U.S., as well as Ireland, Argentina, Egypt and China. The brand will also add three new resorts, including two in China and one in Carlsbad, California, to its collection for a total of 63 resorts worldwide by year-end.
By the end of 2010, Sheraton will expand in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia and augment its portfolio by almost 70 properties, 30 of which will include spas. Sheraton hotels' scheduled openings from 2008 through 2010 stretch across the globe, including California, New York and Texas in the U.S., as well as Ireland, Argentina, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Vietnam, Russia, China and Taiwan.
The Sheraton brand's growth forecast includes more than half a dozen "big box" hotels, including impressive new properties like the Sheraton Phoenix, with 1,000 rooms and 80,000 square feet of meeting space, and the Sheraton Macau, which features more than 4,000 rooms and over 271,000 square feet of meeting space.
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