Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide is looking to expand its footprint in Brazil with a conversion project on the 284-room former Hotel da Bahia in Salvador. The Sheraton da Bahia Hotel is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2013. Another hotel, the Sheraton Reserva do Paiva Hotel and Conference Center, is expected to open by the first quarter of 2014, bringing Starwood’s portfolio in the country to nine. Read the Travel Weekly story here.