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...Kaplan said the industry’s largest gain was on Blackstone’s buyout of hotel group Hilton Worldwide, which yielded more than $11bn in gains....
...Corp for $8.2bn to deepen automation push (Reuters) JPMorgan orders senior bankers to work 5 days a week in the office (FT) SoftBank slims down by selling early-stage VC unit (Axios) InterContinental Hotels...
...Seeing it decades later through the window of my southern-shore hotel, I was awed by the reality too....
...We have taken the soft option of staying in hotels, though in high summer we might well have camped....
...He says he is “placid but worried” and adds: “It’s going to be a very tough year.”...
...search services and, in September, it launched a specialised search for activities such as visiting the Colosseum or skiing in Lake Tahoe....
...Hotels are adapting to a new set of “digital nomads”, offering long-stay options, while banks and other traditional employers try to reign in the wanderlust....
...In the Puglian manor There’s no shortage of masserie-turned-hotels in Puglia....
...considers Agnelli approach (FT + Lex) US merger rush stirs debate over equities bull market (FT) SoftBank pulls out of deal for KPMG’s Number 20 club in Mayfair (Sunday Times) Harare’s historic Meikles Hotel...
...So it is with some trepidation that he agrees to meet at the FT’s annual commodities summit, in the Beau Rivage hotel in Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva....
...Wanda also sold more than $9bn in hotel and tourism assets in China last year to two Chinese property developers. Shares in AMC were up 1.2 per cent at $20.35 in early trade on Friday....
...The same presentation says Bayrock was one of the backers of the redevelopment of the 101-year-old Hotel du Parc on the shores of Lake Geneva, owned by Swiss Development Group, a Geneva-based company....
...First an antique paddlesteamer (built 1901), pistons chunking, glassware trilling, decks-aquivering across a placid lake framed by mountains....
...Similar experiences are also available at Lake Placid, New York (whiteface.com) and Lillehammer, Norway (olympiaparken.no) Ski jump Arguably the most terrifying of Olympic sports, ski jumping is usually...
...In 2014 it acquired IMG, the sports marketing group, for $2.4bn with backing from Silver Lake, the private equity group....
...If I think back to Games that felt the part and captured the Olympic spirit, the logo of Lake Placid comes to mind. I’m reminded of Innsbruck and how well the small Tyrolean capital worked in 1976....
...The 1950s have a reputation now as an era of placid innocence, which was not how they felt at the time — in the fearful west, the trampled east or indeed the increasingly restive Third World....
...The 1932 Winter Olympics, only the third cold-weather version of the Games, were held at New York’s Lake Placid....
...Renaud Auguste-Dormeuil’s “Hôtels des transmissions — jusqu’à un certain point” (2007) are urban panoramas reclaiming the graphic vocabulary of orientation tables, though indicating not places of beauty...
...When the restaurant closed, she made her mark managing exotic dancers at Winnipeg hotels. At her peak, the “Queen of the Strippers” managed more than one hundred male and female performers....
...Now, thanks to a Rbs12bn ($380m) investment from Roman Abramovich’s asset management company Millhouse LLC, the island stands to become both a focal point for contemporary culture – an area of art galleries...
...The location is Lake Michigan. The town is Gary, Indiana. And the host is the Majestic Star Casino. “Welcome to Majestic Star,” says a croupier. And to post-industrial America, she might add....
...“Utemuratov will be able to buy Lake Geneva next. He could even buy the Kremlin.” Related reading: Kazakh party calls for China protest, FT Kazakhstan: keeping it in the family, beyondbrics...
...You can also exchange days with participating Ritz-Carlton hotels....
..., shown last year, was an apparently straightforward park bench, set beside a lake – but every time someone sat down a fountain of water shot up out of the placid surface....
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