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...Vail Resorts agreed to buy the Crans-Montana ski resort in the Swiss Alps, in a SFr118.5mn ($136mn) deal that will give the Colorado-based group ownership of an iconic European holiday destination....
...In the attic is a new living-working space, “The Eagle’s Nest”, transformed from a hut-style “Matratzenlager”....
...The “pristine” resort island of Koh Tao has a 45,000-tonne garbage mountain....
...Local media have reported that at least 34 people are dead after the unidentified lone gunman entered the Resorts World Manila casino, fired shots and set gaming tables on fire before killing himself....
...Buying guide ● For domestic flights, Eagle County airport is a 40-minute drive to the west of Vail....
...In November, Irving Azoff, the entertainment manager known for his dealmaking finesse on behalf of artists like The Eagles, gathered a host of music executives for a lavish charity event on the Santa Monica...
...InterContinental Hotels Group has held early stage talks with Starwood Hotels & Resorts over a union to create the world’s largest hotel group, said two people familiar with the discussions....
...Texas’s wide open spaces are already dotted by more than 250 ghost towns — once-vibrant settlements that fell into decline when the lone driver of their economy disappeared, says Thomas Tunstall of the University...
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...As a lone operator, he will collect a large fee for himself....
...Walt Disney is heading for a writedown of up to $190m over the poor performance of its summer flop The Lone Ranger....
...“The goal was to do exactly the same in the US,” says one executive, who adds that rollout reached a lone branch in New York and then halted. “These guys stopped that completely.”...
...The luxury housing market was now beginning to come back, but the pace was slow, said Rod Slifer, who runs the largest real estate brokerage in Summit and Eagle counties, home to the Vail and Breckenridge...
...The Deer Crest and Bald Eagle sections are highly sought after, with ski-in/ski-out houses costing $6m-$20m. A six-bedroom Deer Crest home near the top of the ski mountain is selling for $6.6m....
...Eagles perch in the lone tree on the ridge line. Tigray is “big sky country” – as a Texas native, I have not seen a place more reminiscent of John Wayne’s American south-west....
...YTL, the Malaysian group which is developing condominiums in the ski resort of Niseko, says it is continuing to look for other opportunities in Japan....
...If you want to soak after a day in the saddle, you need to be staying in a cabin, ideally Bluebird, Wrangler or Eagle’s Perch, the Loft, or one of the houses. Even so, I loved this place....
...Shares of gambling groups Las Vegas Sands , up 3.5 per cent to $38.62, and Wynn Resorts , up 8.5 per cent to $101.78, rose on hopes for their expansions in the Macau resort....
...Now in his mid-70s he’s caretaker of a fishing resort, living in a cabin with a dog. Steinbauer coaxed him to attend the FF Festival; in the course of it, he revealed the man behind the lone rager....
...This followed years of more conventional company doctoring at such companies as Eagle Trust, Dan Air and Lloyd’s of London....
...Though football, in particular the Philadelphia Eagles, who he has supported since childhood, holds the strongest draw (“I’m an NFL guy”), Hurley says his hunt for personal involvement has taken him into...
...In today’s recovering market, receivers are more likely to find success selling through an estate agent than have to resort to selling at auction....
...If you removed (temporarily) a cable car from almost any European resort – the “Prince of Wales” to the top of Gotschnagrat at the Swiss resort of Klosters, for instance – it would doubtless be missed....
...This is because selling a company is widely considered a last resort in Japan, so there are few voluntary sellers....
...It’s 50 years since Earl Eaton stumbled across what was to become Vail Mountain while prospecting for uranium in Eagle County, Colorado....
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