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Starwood Hotels & Resorts
and Wenzhou Jinxiu Hotel Investment Co. have signed an agreement whereby Starwood will manage the Sheraton
Wenzhou Hotel in the Zhejiang province of China. The newly built 333-room Sheraton Wenzhou Hotel is scheduled to open in mid-2009.
The
Sheraton Wenzhou Hotel will feature 333 rooms, 15,800 square feet of meeting space, three restaurants , a health club and spa as well as an indoor
swimming pool. The hotel is located within the city center, with close proximity to the Government Administration Center, central business district
and about 30 minutes drive away from Wenzhou Airport.
Wenzhou is located in the southern part of Zhejiang province and is about 420 kilometers southwest of Shanghai. Wenzhou has a history which
goes back to about 2000 BC, when it became known for its pottery production. Throughout its history, Wenzhou's traditional economic role has
been as a port giving access to the mountainous interior of southern Zhejiang Province. Today Wenzhou remains the chief economic, political and
cultural center of southeastern Zhejiang Province. Its main industries are food processing, papermaking, building materials, with some engineering
works producing mostly farm machinery. Zhejiang Province is located on China's southeast coast, south of the Yangtze River Delta and south of
Shanghai municipality. Zhejiang is noted for its picturesque scenery, and the abundance of its products has made it widely known as a "land of fish
and rice." It is also noted for its silk and tea, as well as for its numerous historical and cultural sites of interest to scholars and tourists alike.
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