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Starwood opens new hotel near Quebec City

July
28

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. has opened a new Four Points by Sheraton hotel in Levis, Quebec, the hotelier said today.

The hotel, situated across the river from Quebec City, has 150 rooms and a 15,000-square-foot conference center.

White Plains-based Starwood operates 130 Four Points hotels in 22 countries.

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Starwood opens U.S.’s first ‘aloft’ hotel

June
20

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. reports it has opened its first aloft brand hotel in the United States in Southern California.

The aloft Ontario-Rancho Cucamonga is expected to appeal to Los Angeles area business travelers as well as tourists to destinations such as Joshua Tree National Park, the White Plains-based hotelier said.

Aloft hotels are marketed as affordable, fashionable inns that feature high-tech amenities.

Starwood said it expects to open 18 of the new-concept hotels this year in cities worldwide.

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Starwood unit to open luxury hotel in Malaysia

June
17

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. said today it has plans to open a hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, under the hotelier’s St. Regis brand.

The 200 room luxury hotel, which would also have 200 residences as well as restaurants and meeting halls, is scheduled to open in 2014, White Plains-based Starwood said.

Shares of Starwood were lower in late-afternoon trading, down $1.07, or 2.2 percent, to $47.18 a share.

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