IHG will arrive in Cartagena de Indias, managing to integrate in one place apartments, offices, commercial premises, parking lots and a 5-star hotel with 118 rooms. With an investment close to 30 billion pesos San Martín Plaza opens its doors in the tourist neighborhood of Bocagrande. A Holiday Inn Express is already operating in the city of Medellin, Colombia, being the first of its kind in the Andean country.
According to information published by the economic newspaper Portafolio, the investment that Starwood will make together with the hotel operator GHL and the construction company Amarilo would be US $ 10 and US $ 12 in the construction that would be scheduled to begin next August 2007. Although Starwood has not confirmed the news, it did advance that the project is already being studied.
