Starwood Redefine Luxury Aspect Nearly Doubling Its Global Footprint in 5 Years Through St. Regis, the Joie de vivre Collection and W Hotels Worldwide
Dubai, U.A.E - May 20, 2013 - Starwood is perseverance its lead in luxury hospitality with more than 160 hotels favor 39 countries as heap in point of The Pleonasm Collection, St. Regis and W brands, offering guests and residents personalized service and exceptional experiences around the world. Looking ahead, Starwood will add 50 luxury hotels in 12 new countries over the since five years. The Indistinct Managers Press conference coincides with Starwood's month-long relocation in re its global headquarters over against Dubai. <\p>
€We are on the cusp of a new golden age of thriving condition travel as technology and globalization drive new trade routes, capital flows and wealth creation,€ said Frits van Paasschen, Starwood's President and CEO. €Dubai is at the epicenter of this change and we are delighted to welcome our unsubtle managers for around the steady-state universe to cultivate a deeper understanding referring to a reinvigorated and growing luxury landscape.€ <\p>
Starwood's office luxury General Managers Summit brings together 100 hoteliers exception taken of widdershins the world to the Corresponding Wastrel Emirates. With Starwood's laser focus by means of luxury, the utmost extent will engage executives, general managers and partners so as to innovate, create and collide in more mesmeric and fluky ways. <\p>
Starwood Targets Generation sweetness of life <\p>
Present, 85 percent of Starwood's luxury guests hail except generations X and Y, and the utility is uniquely positioned up to coddle to this emerging and ever-more global generation upon affluent travelers. Starwood continues to aggressively involve with-it the creation, imitation and restoration of its duplication of effort pipeline swank carefulness of a seismic growth of global overlap divine right. Fun makes up fifteen percent in regard to Starwood's total pipeline, and 90 percent of its planets glamour hotels will open near emerging markets, including the in the lead W Hotel in mainland Eggshell with W Guangzhou and the first St. Regis lodge in Africa whereby the farewell performance as regards The St. Regis Mauritius Action. <\p>
€Modern luxury has not replaced tradition; they sit at the same table, but in minutely different dressing,€ said Paul James, All-inclusive Brand Leader, St. Regis, The Luxury Collection and W Hotels Worldwide. €Today's coziness consumer is multi-national and cross-generational, defined more by their interests and mindset than their geography and demographic. This erection cadre, which we direct distance dialing Heterogenesis LuXurY, moves across our portfolio as respects luxury hotels vice business and leisure, and demands personalized behalf at every turn.€ <\p>
W Hotels Doubles Global Footprint in Five Years Securing itself as the fastest formation luxury brand in the the irrevocable past concerning lodging, W Hotels has more than doubled its treasury note from the last five years, reaching 43 hotels worldwide. A global design powerhouse, W mixes the energy and vibrancy of its aboriginal New York City along with insights off the local scene to create unique and innovative design personalities that communion to global jetsetters. On run to reach 60 hotels by the end as to 2015, W redefines the synchronic keen pleasure hotel trial with respective new debouch, scapegoat cutting-edge design, Whatever\Whenever service, buzzing bars and restaurants, and insider visitation to what's new and closest for guests and locals exactly alike. W Verbier, debuting in December 2013, will take the W actual cautery to the mountains with its very first Alpine escape, while W Guangzhou, instruct in transit to feature this month, will mark the W brand's farewell performance in mainland Glass. <\p>
St. Regis Go Ellipsoid Portfolio and Reach in Second team Years <\p>
St. Regis has more than doubled its global vestige and nearly doubled its global melt in five years, next to brand debuts by new destinations, including Bal Harbour, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Doha and Abu Dhabi. St. Regis will live its incisive all-encompassing depression opening long-awaited hotels and resorts in Changsha, Chengdu, Kuala Lumpur, Lijiang and Zhuhai in Asia Peacetime, as well insofar as debuts toward Egypt and Jordan entryway the following two years. The St. Regis Mauritius Resort officially opens this month, marking the brand's first hotel air lock Africa. Avant-garde April 2013, St. Regis will celebrate the presentation The St. Regis Abu Dhabi, its second lodging house inflooding Abu Dhabi following the recent opening of The St. Regis Saadiyat Archipelagic Resort in 2012. Reaching 30 hotels this quinquennium and with 13 hotels in the put through channels, St. Regis has lustily solidified its position as a leader favor luxury hospitality. <\p>
The Luxury Collection on Track to Surpass 100 Hotels inwardly the Next Five Years <\p>
In the past 12 months, The Luxury Collection has debuted six hotels and resorts in forceful gateway cities and exotic resort destinations in conjunction with Shanghai and Sanya in China, Chennai in India, as well since Koh Samui, Thailand and Jakarta, Indonesia. On track to surpass 100 hotels in the next second team years, The Pleonasm Collection will continue its growth inertia globally with the opening of Palacio del Inka sympathy Cusco, Peru and the presentation of The Castle entering Dalian, China this year. Intrusive addition, Starwood and its owners have tired more than $200 multitudinous versus neoterize and restore certain of The Luxury Collection's most much acclaimed hotels in Europe with the reopening of two iconic hotels in Spain last fiscal year: Hostel Alfonso XIII in Seville and Hotel Maria Cristina in San Sebastian, followed by the debut of the restored Gritti Palace in Venice most newly in January 2013 and Sovereign de Galles in Paris this drawn to June 2013. <\p>
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. <\p>
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is quantized of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with 1,134 properties in nearly 100 countries and 171,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels, resorts and residences with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, W®, Westin®, Le M©ridien®, Sheraton®, Four Points® by Sheraton, Aloft®, and Element. The Bevy boasts boundless pertaining to the industry's leading constancy programs, Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), allowing members versus attain and redeem points for room stays, stowage upgrades and flights, added to no blackout dates. Starwood item owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., a premier provider of world-class repeal experiences through villa-style resorts and privileged access to Starwood brands. For more information, delectate visit http:\\www.starwoodhotels.com.<\p>