Zinio has announced a global partnership with Starwood to provide guests at its portfolio of speciality select hotels with access to a branded newsstand, offering digital magazines.

Starwood has celebrated a key milestone with the opening of the 25th Aloft hotel worldwide - Aloft Arundel Mills in Hanover, Maryland. With the global growth of the Aloft brand, Starwood continues to progress on its journey to open its 1,000th hotel in 2009.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. and LTD Management Company introduce two new hotel brands to Maryland today with the opening of Aloft Arundel Mills and Element Arundel Mills. Aloft is the stylish new select service lifestyle brand inspired by W Hotels, and Element, which is inspired by Westin Hotels & Resorts, offers a compelling new experience for longer-stay guests.

From the Arabian Hotel Investment Conference (AHIC) in Dubai, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announced today the signing of a hotel within The Luxury Collection brand in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. The new-build, 207-room property is expected to open in 2012, and is illustrative of Starwood’s market leading growth in the region and around the world.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.  today reported first quarter 2009 financial results

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.  announced today that Judge Stephen C. Robinson, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, entered a Preliminary Injunction in connection with litigation filed last week by Starwood against Hilton Hotels Corporation and former Starwood executives Ross Klein and Amar Lalvani. Starwood alleges that Klein and Lalvani, aided and abetted by Hilton, stole massive amounts of proprietary and highly confidential Starwood information which was used to expedite Hilton’s entry into the lifestyle hotel market, reposition its luxury brands and substantially reduce its costs and risks of doing so.