Starwood Hotels & Resorts has announced plans to add 10 properties to its existing 38-hotel portfolio in Africa. The openings over the next three years will represent more than 4,200 guestrooms. By 2015, the property will open three additional hotels in Nigeria: one property in Benin City and two in Lagos. In addition to adding properties in Algeria, Egypt, and South Africa, Starwood is looking to enter countries such as Angola, the Ivory Coast, and Ghana.
Openings will include:
- St. Regis Mauritius Resort & Spa, which recently debuted, and the St. Regis Cairo, scheduled to open in 2014
- A new hotel under the Luxury Collection brand in Lagos
- Three new Sheraton hotels in Dakar (Senegal), Annaba (Algeria), and Tripoli (Libya)
- Three new Four Points by Sheraton, including two in Nigeria and one hotel in Oran, Algeria
- Le Méridien hotel in Cairo
