Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide signs an agreement with Residency Resorts Mal? Private Ltd, part of Chennai-based developer Appaswamy Group, to debut the St. Regis brand in the Maldives. The St. Regis Vommuli Resort, Maldives?is set to open in 2016 on the private Vommuli Island in the Dhaalu Atoll.
This announcement follows on the heels of the recent signing of The St. Regis Mumbai, which is scheduled to open before the end of the year. The St. Regis Vommuli Resort will further strengthen Starwood?s fast growing portfolio in South Asia, where the company currently operates 48 hotels with an additional 48 hotels in the pipeline, including W Goa Retreat & Spa and Le M?ridien Nagpur in India; Le M?ridien Paro, in Bhutan; Le M?ridien and Sheraton in Dhaka, Bangladesh and Sheraton in Colombo, Sri Lanka, all due to open in the region within the next two years.