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March 11, 2024

CitizenM owners explore potential sale of hotel group

...The company’s value had increased since then and it could now be worth roughly €4bn in a deal, one of the people said.Deliberations were at an early stage and the company could also pursue the sale of a...

March 27, 2024

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Spain supplants UK as top hotel investment destination amid buoyant demand

...Hatton said the subdued hotel investment volumes in the UK were “not a result of lack of interest”, but “minimal product brought to market”....

April 14, 2024

ReviewMusic

Die Jüdin von Toledo at Semperoper Dresden is a dazzling but difficult opera — review

...Dresden’s Semperoper has thrown abundant resources at Detlev Glanert’s Die Jüdin von Toledo (“The Jewish Woman of Toledo”)....

February 12, 2024

Travel

The Copenhagen canalside hotel on a mission to bring people together

...together 364 days of the year (on New Year’s Eve, it holds a party for the people who work there instead)....

April 3, 2024

Zeinab Badawi

What the people of Sudan need from us

...The long-beleaguered people of Darfur, where the majority of provinces are in the hands of the RSF, have borne a particularly brutal burden. Reports of ethnic cleansing are grimly credible....

April 17, 2024

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Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...“The whole ‘Willies’ culture [work in London, live in Edinburgh] has been there for years and lots of people do it given the importance of London for finance.”...

March 31, 2024

Travel

Inside the elite Swiss school for hotel managers

...“A lot of people do this job because they watched Pretty Woman,” says Vincent Billiard, who saw the 1990 film as a kid. It features Bernie, the all-seeing yet discreet manager of a Beverly Hills hotel....

March 23, 2024

Travel

The big hotel openings of 2024

...Unusually, each comes with the loan of a smartphone loaded with the hotel’s app, which contains its guide to this mazelike part of the city, as well as a compass to help you navigate....

January 11, 2024

FT GlobetrotterWhere to stay in Zurich

Zürich’s Storchen hotel: in the pink for centuries

...If you want a change of scene, the hotel boat, moored just outside, can whizz you down the river and across the lake to the group’s other waterside hotel, the Alex — a great spot for a sunny weekend brunch...

February 26, 2024

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What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...given everyone’s lungs a break, it is likely to do lasting harm to the health of young people who graduated into the teeth of that downturn....

March 8, 2024

News updates from March 11: Brussels eyes up to €3bn in frozen Russian assets for Ukraine; Biden proposes higher taxes

Choice Hotels abandons $9bn hostile takeover of rival Wyndham

...Choice Hotels International has scrapped its $9bn hostile takeover of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, ending an almost year-long pursuit of the rival hotel group whose board repeatedly criticised the deal....

March 11, 2024

Letter

Letter: I’m a convert to change of use for stores and hotels

...The advent of assisted-living accommodation for the generally better-off has changed the retirement prospects for many fortunate to be able to afford it....

March 29, 2024

FT GlobetrotterWhere to stay in Zurich

The Dolder Grand: James Bond meets ‘The Magic Mountain’ . . .

...The hotel is large and varied enough to cater for all sorts of guests....

February 26, 2024

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Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

The Weekend Essay

What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

...There are multiple ways of contacting and meeting people, digitally and socially. No longer are they London homes from home for out-of-towners....

March 30, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The parable of Soho House

...But there is lots of it, lots of resentment in return and no understanding history without a sense of this eternal friction between people with cachet and people with cash....

February 16, 2024

Special ReportFT Wealth: April

The new (radical) rich who can’t wait to give away their fortunes

...But that hasn’t stopped the 51-year-old descendent of one of America’s richest families — the Pritzker Group is a majority owner of the Hyatt hotel chain, among dozens of other companies — struggling with...

April 12, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Ask Shrimsley: Am I the asshole?

...I am afraid the same is true of all those people who write in to journalists for advice on their lives....

April 5, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...HFEA data shows that in 2020-21 the average age of people freezing their eggs was 35....

March 23, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The real quandary of AI isn’t what people think

...This week, I’d like to suggest a final precursor: the iPhone. When Steve Jobs launched the genre-defining iPhone in 2007, few people imagined just how ubiquitous smartphones would become....

February 16, 2024

Spanish economy

Spanish drought pits tourists against locals in contest for water

...Andalusia, which is run by the conservative People’s party, is allowing public and sports club pools to be filled along with those at hotels, while leaving pools attached to private flats and houses dry....

April 18, 2024

InterviewVisual Arts

Artist Outi Pieski: ‘The world speaks to me through the details’

...In recent years some significant collections of items belonging to the Sámi people have been rehoused in their place of origin, including at the Sámi Museum Siida, in the Finnish village of Inari, where...

April 1, 2024

Travelista

Four city hotels reshaping the horizon

...February marked the opening of a third New York address, The Warren Street Hotel, in the heart of Tribeca, and housed in its own purpose-built tower....

March 3, 2024

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