Hotel giant Marriott sees only blue skies ahead for the Melbourne CBD after unveiling its latest offering, the city’s first Le Meridien Hotel in almost 20 years, and as it prepares to cut the ribbon next week on its most ambitious project to date, a Ritz-Carlton atop a skyscraper next to Southern Cross Station.

“We’d take 10 more hotels in Melbourne,” said Sean Hunt, Marriott International vice president for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific as he joined Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp to officially open the 295-room lifestyle hotel at the top of Bourke Street and just a block away from the Parliament of Victoria.