HONG KONG (Bloomberg) ? Mandarin Oriental International Ltd., which manages luxury hotels in Asia, Europe and the Americas, said it will run a new 145-room resort near Marrakech, Morocco scheduled to open in 2009.

The Mandarin Oriental Jnan Rahma is being developed by Moroccan company JK Hotels on a 131 acre site in the Palmeraie region in the Atlas Mountains, Mandarin said in an e-mailed statement yesterday.

The Marrakech hotel is one of five Mandarin hotels scheduled to open in 2009, along with Dallas, Chicago, Las Vegas and its second hotel in Macau.

The company will have more than 9,000 rooms under management the end of that year, it said. Mandarin also manages the Elbow Beach Hotel in Bermuda. Mandarin Oriental, a unit of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd., is based in Hong Kong, incorporated in Bermuda and has its shares traded in London and Singapore.