Starwood’s 150th hotel in Asia Pacific now open

Starwood Hotels & Resorts has opened its 150th hotel in Asia Pacific – the ITC Royal Gardenia, a Luxury Collection hotel in Bengaluru, India. The opening of the 292-room hotel underscores Starwood’s long-term strategic growth plans in Asia Pacific, where it has executed 23 new deals in 2009 – seven hotels have been opened prior to the opening of ITC Royal Gardenia and another seven hotels are slated to open by the end of this year. Within China, Starwood is set to double its current footprint to 100 hotels by 2012.