Westin Hotels is rolling out Tangent, an offering for business travelers that gives more flexibility and better technology in today's mobile world.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts says it signed more than 125 new management and franchise contracts in 2012, up 13 per cent on the previous year

Seoul's Westin Hotel claims to have been targeted by hackers who said they were from China

Starwood has opened its first dual-branded ski resort in China, with the opening of the Sheraton Changbaishan Resort and The Westin Changbaishan Resort

The company signed 12 new deals in China in the first three months of 2012, with Greater China accounting for 44% of its global pipeline. Since Starwood's debut of The Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in Beijing in 1985, China has now become Starwood's second largest market in the world after the US.

New openings will bring Westin’s total portfolio in China to 19 by the end of 2012.

New properties expected to open over the next six months.

Sheraton to increase its spa portfolio by nearly 50% with 10 openings this year.

Over half of new openings in Asia Pacific to be in China.

The hotel is the first Starwood hotel in Anhui province.