A Le Meridien Hotel For Algeria

A Le Meridien Hotel For Algeria | Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is to stage the grand debut of its Le Meridien brand in the North African country of Algeria. Starwood has signed a management agreement with the Algerian state-owned oil and gas company Sonatrach SpA to operate the Le Meridien Hotel & Conference Center in the country’s second-largest city the northwestern port of Oran on the Mediterranean coast. The 296-room hotel is expected to open in February 2010, and it is to be part of a mixed-use project being developed by Sonatrach. The new Le Meridien property will join Starwood’s other two properties in Algeria: the Sheraton Club Pins Resort and Towers, in Algiers, and the Sheraton Oran Hotel & Towers, in Oran.