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Marriott signs new hotel in Bangalore

EH Staff - Bangalore

Marriott has signed a management contract with Prestige Estates Projects for a 300-room golf resort, spa, and convention centre in Bangalore, India. Operational by 2012, the Bangalore Marriott Golf Resort & Convention Centre at Nandi Hills will be Marriott's fifth property in Bangalore and its 30th in India.

According to Ed Fuller, president and MD for international lodging at Marriott, the property will be part of a 300-acre, mixed-use project, which will also have a first-class 18-hole golf course operated by Prestige and a residential community comprising approximately 225 single-family homes.

For conferences and social events, it will offer 1,940 square metres of space including a 1,200 square-meter ballroom which will be divisible into five sections: a 450 square- metre junior ballroom divisible into two sections; three individual meeting rooms, each also divisible into two sections; and a 50 square-metre ballroom.

Also under development in Bangalore are the JW Marriott Hotel Bangalore (2009), Renaissance Bangalore Hotel (2010), Renaissance Bangalore High Grounds Hotel (2010) and The Ritz-Carlton Bangalore (2010).