An iconic high-rise hotel specialising in luxury suites for long-stay travellers to Glasgow is expected to be be given the green light tomorrow.

The striking 20-storey complex will be the first location in Scotland for the global Staybridge Suites group, which has over 100 hotels in the US and is expanding across Europe and the Middle East, providing niche accommodation not widely available in Scotland.

It currently has only one UK hotel, in Liverpool's fashionable Albert Dock area, but hopes to have a British portfolio of 10 within three years.

Each suite in the four-star hotel comes with fully equipped kitchen, sofas, wi-fi broadband and plasma-screen TVs, with most visitors staying more than a week.

The building itself will dwarf much of the city's Jamaica Street area, including the recently completed Jury's Hotel.

Constructed mainly of glass and steel, with a metallic black finish, the hotel will subtly change colour at night, with lighting strips running the entire height of the building.

It will be topped off with a massive stainless steel vertical fin, while the public areas will be given a marble finish.

With 120 suites it will also go some way to meeting the growing demand for accommodation in the city.

Glasgow's booming conference, events and leisure markets is expected to grow the number of hotel rooms in the city by 2400 over the next four years.

Many of the guests at the proposed Staybridge are expected to be contract workers in the nearby International Financial Services District.

Although in a conservation area it will also have the benefit of ridding the street of an eyesore 1960s office block which has lain vacant for several years.

Last night, a Staybridge spokesman said: "The aim is really to create a home away from home for the traveller to Glasgow.

"Most of our guests tend to stay more than two weeks, some for months. Each floor even has a kitchen where guests socialise, which our research found is more congenial than the bar.

"We've grasped a big opportunity for this type of venture in the UK and have targeted a number of key locations, one of which is Glasgow."

The Staybridge is the latest in a line of proposed hotels for Glasgow.

Among those under construction or in the pipeline are the Bothwell Plaza complex, Scotland's largest hotel development, which will include both three and four-star accommodation across 600 rooms, the city's first six-star hotel, the 158-bedroom, 26-storey Argyle International, which will have a rooftop swimming pool, and a 15-storey, 182-room hotel on Clyde Street.

Glasgow City Council's Planning Committee is expected to approve the Staybridge plans at a meeting tomorrow.

A spokesman for the authority said: "This provides a niche hotel Glasgow doesn't currently have."