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...Xanterra controls everything in Furnace Creek except the Native American village....
...At the entrance I find Greenough shuffling about in a V-neck cricket jumper and a marshal’s jacket....
...By the 1950s, the accidental sea had bloomed into a popular resort, rechristened the “Salton Riviera”....
...Nowhere is this more evident than in the current battle of the parks....
...(Atlantic) Closing parks when they’re needed most The great urban parks were conceived as places of relief from the sickness, disease and darkness of dense tenements, Edwin Heathcote writes....
...A further Mirum resort, the 11ha Park Residences, is also in the pipeline....
...Close to the village of Comporta, E&V is selling a modern five-bedroom villa with a pool for a little under €888,900....
...Developed in the 1950s and 1960s by mayor Pedro Zaragoza as Europe’s first mass resort — with towers to avoid sprawl and keep everyone close to the beach — it soon became known for crowds of drunken British...
...“Part of it admires them for building high-rises, resorts and the like....
...Among a swath of openings are two luxury resorts on the “Cambodian Riviera”....
...NV Energy lost nearly 6 per cent of its customer base virtually overnight in October after MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts agreed to pay a combined $103m to defect and buy their power elsewhere...
...Moving the line Yehoshua Shkedy, chief scientist of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, says the spill may have been caused “by negligence, a mistake”....
...The range sells online and at tennis resorts such as La Quinta in Palm Desert. “I want to keep tennis as a fashion-forward sport,” says Philip....
...Xanterra Parks & Resorts, which operates more than 30 hotels and lodges in national parks including Death Valley, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, said it was losing $1m in sales a day....
...Some of these guests have been lured to the Parisian outpost of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts, the Hong Kong-based chain....
...The George V, run by Four Seasons, has regularly been voted among the world’s best hotels....
...Planet Thanet, also known as the Last Resort.”...
...By contrast, French invest-ors ask if there’s a sea view, how big the car park is, and whether the hi-fi will take an iPod....
...Instead of Ravel’s “Bolero”, get ready to hear a lot of Johnny Cash’s “I’ve Been Everywhere” and Linkin Park’s “Crawling”....
...Compared with the many weeks it takes to pull off a decent parallel turn on downhill skis, langlaufing was like a stroll in the park....
...The construction project should be a smart new home for the Museum of the Performing Arts, which the V&A is considering relocating....
...V isitors to the US arrive clutching driving licences as tightly as passports, since viewing the land of the free usually means handcuffing oneself to a steering wheel first. Many relish this prospect....
...This park is a six or seven-hour drive from Kampala, or it’s possible to arrange a charter flight....
...Rising in its park is the Cloud Tower (or Wolkenturm), a striking, multi-faceted structure, like a skewed, upturned, polygonal funnel the height of the surrounding trees, which in a certain light looks solid...
...It belongs to an office used by Marie-Béatrice Lallemand, chief operating officer of Concorde Hotels & Resorts, which owns the Crillon....
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