The 21 hotels are scheduled to open through the end of 2013, represent four of the company’s lodging brands and will add nearly 7,000 rooms to Marriott’s previously announced Asia-Pacific pipeline of 37 hotels and 9,400 rooms now under construction. They are part of the company’s global development pipeline of 110,000 rooms.
When opened, the 58 hotels now under development will add over 16,000 rooms to Marriott’s Asia-Pacific portfolio. This growth will bring the company’s presence in the region to 154 hotels offering 51,500 rooms in 18 countries by the end of 2013, ranking it among the largest international hotel operators in China, India and Thailand with 70, 31 and 26 properties respectively in each country.
In addition, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, LLC portfolio in the region currently consists of 16 hotels and resorts offering approximately 5,000 rooms with nine properties and 1,500 rooms under development.
The hotels covered in the announcement are two luxurious JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts-branded properties in Dalian and Sanya, China, which will join nine previously announced JW Marriott hotels under construction, including the recently announced 450-room JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi and the 106-villa JW Marriott Maldives Gaaskoshibee Resort & Spa, which opens in fourth quarter of 2010; 10 full service, upscale Marriott Hotels & Resorts-branded properties that will be located in China, the Philippines and Thailand and include the 712-room Shanghai Marriott Hotel City Center and the 256-room Manila Airport Marriott opening in late 2009; two full-service, upscale Renaissance Hotels & Resorts-branded properties in China, and seven upper-moderately-priced Courtyard by Marriott hotels in Cambodia, China and India, and include the 254-room Courtyard by Marriott Bangalore and Marriott International’s first hotel in Cambodia.
