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By Christopher Elliott Q I recently found a $28-per-night rate at the Westin Imagine in Orlando, Fla. I was amazed. I booked the room, and several days later I called the hotel to ensure that it was a legitimate rate. The...
Nov 20, 2009 (Grand Forks Herald - Twenty-seven months after an EF-4 tornado devastated the community of Northwood, N.D., killing one resident and injuring 18 others, recovery remains on the fast track. The city is finishing up...
A private equity firm that controls some of Hawai'i top hotels will become a shareholder in Hawaiian Telcom Inc. Cerberus Capital Management LP on Tuesday filed papers in U.S. Bankruptcy Court saying it acquired more than $7.6...
Visitor industry leaders yesterday pointed to signs of economic rebound next summer but cautioned that a more sustained recovery could take years. "Everything is pointing in the right direction," industry consultant Joseph Toy...
Istithmar, the Dubai-based investment company, may lose control of the W New York Union Square hotel in Manhattan at a foreclosure auction next month by holders of the mezzanine debt on the property. The Istithmar Hotels Union...
"The big empty" is how my seatmate describes the landscape as our plane makes its descent to El Paso. To me it is the opposite: this is a place I've visited and lived in for the last 13 years, and it is a land filled with...
INDIA is modernizing rapidly, sometimes too fast. You have giant malls, but grandmothers afraid to use the escalators. There are villages in the middle of nowhere, with ornate temples soaring into the hot sky. Still, old...
Nov 22, 2009 (LBO) - Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings is ready to invest nearly 6.0 billion rupees over the next two to three years in upgrading and building new hotels if tourism arrivals pick up after the end of a 30-year war...
The advent of the internet, and in particular internet dating on an international scale, has caused a number of people to redefine the parameters of their thinking in regards to what does and does not qualify as a...
By MICHELLE HIGGINS, The New York Times BED-and-breakfasts are starting to man up, doing away with the lace bedspreads and trading high tea for brewskies. Whispering Pines Bed and Breakfast in Dellroy, Ohio, where rooms are...
