
The hotel group plans to open 50 properties in the region during the next five years. Starwood Hotels & Resorts also expects to pass the symbolic 100 hotel figure from now to the end of 2015.
In the longer term, Starwood Hotels & Resorts counts on opening 50 in the region over the next five years, to attain 130 hotels from now to 2017. In particular, the group should open 12 new properties in the United Arab Emirates, 6 in Saudi Arabia, one in Iraq, two in Nigeria, two in Algeria, and launch its Aloft brand in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
