Marriott International has signed an agreement
with Jamuna Builders Limited to operate a 700-room JW Marriott
Hotel in Dhaka.
The hotel will be part of a mixed-use development
that will also include retail and office components, and
construction of the hotel is already under way.
The JW Marriott Dhaka will be located in an emerging location in
the middle of the city and will feature three restaurants, two
bars, a spa with eight treatment rooms, and 2,280 square metres of
meeting space.
Dhaka is well
connected to India, the Middle East and South East Asia and more
than 30 international airlines fly into Dhaka which has seen
passenger traffic grow from approximately 3.2 million in 2005 to 6
million passengers in 2012.
Simon Cooper,
Marriott International’s President and Managing Director Asia
Pacific, said, “We are delighted to be working with Jamuna
Builders Limited to open this wonderful JW Marriott hotel in
Dhaka. Bangladesh has a thriving economy and the country’s GDP has
been growing at approximately 6% a year for the past five years.
We absolutely believe that now is the right time to bring our
luxury JW Marriott brand to Bangladesh and in Jamuna Builders
Limited we have an owner with a great vision and drive to make
this a truly stunning hotel in a great location.”
“With the existing hotel market currently underserved in Dhaka and
with the future growth in the infrastructure sector, the demand
for quality hotel accommodation in the city is growing strongly.
This will be Marriott International’s second hotel in the city as
we already have a Courtyard hotel under construction which we
expect will open next year,” Mr. Cooper added.
Marriott,
Courtyard,
Dhaka
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