Originally Posted by
AJLondon
IMHO, opening a StRegis in Dhaka is sort of like trying to serve caviar in a burrito!
Oxymoron anyone...
Snide off-hand comments aside from armchair travellers -- Dhaka
can support three Starwood properties and there is enough business going on to support them and more.
Visit Dhaka first -- then talk later.
Indian businessmen I've known who can and do afford caviar don't usually question the feasibility of Dhaka hotel rooms except the uninitiated IT labor sitting overseas (who couldn't even tell good caviar from bad if it bit them in the too-khus).
Investments of hundreds of millions of dollars don't just get made on a whim. They are made because there is a reasonably certain prospect of more money to be made...