Hints and tips:
...Readers rely on their guides when they’re travelling to find restaurants and hotels, get acquainted with the city and make the most out of their holidays....
...Developing residences is almost a business imperative, but it’s also a natural extension: Rosewood has managed apartments at The Carlyle since 2002, and sold holiday residences and townhouses from Vancouver...
...It all adds up to what some in the industry are calling the “urban resort” — the idea that a city hotel, even one in an old building, can offer everything a sprawling holiday getaway does (especially attractive...
...One of her grandmothers owned a bakery in St Gallen, at which she worked as a child in school holidays. She maintains a personal touch....
...Last year Candlenut’s business partner, Christina Ong (she of COMO hotels fame), also backed Lee’s new venture, Pangium, in a stunning space overlooking the city’s Botanic Gardens....
...of Bahrain – as well as hotel projects such as the Mandarin Oriental in Beverly Hills and the Peninsula properties in Istanbul and London....
...As a teenager in the 1990s, he was hailed as a wunderkind of German business before enduring a downfall that included the collapse of several ventures, personal bankruptcy and a criminal conviction....
...Driving is best as it is just 75km or an hour’s drive south-east of the city centre. 1....
...s and is a jazz aficionado Website; Directions A different kind of grande dame is Brown’s Hotel in Mayfair, the city’s oldest hotel, renowned as a hub for arts and aristocracy....
...As he puts it: “We want to be able to communicate the things that we’re doing but not shove it down people’s throats.”...
...Part of the case here is that the universities have always said that they’re not like a holiday company. You know, you booked a holiday....
...Before the invasion she lived in Bucha, 30km north-west of Kyiv, and worked as the director of a business school....
...make them happy....
...(1722), Daniel Defoe makes reference to the Knight’s-Bridge Spring Garden as a place where rich, drunk men should expect to be robbed....
...I remember thinking these were people like me, people who had stayed in NYC even as others fled in their droves, heading to their parents’ houses, their holiday houses, their Airbnbs....
...I ask him to name an investment that worked out well and he mentions Youku, an internet-based television service, as well as a chain of Chinese budget hotels, Hanting, which Li says is “like Hampton Inn,...
...I got a call at one o’clock in the morning from either our Tokyo office or our Singapore office saying there are Iraqi tanks in Kuwait City. “‘So, what’s the oil market doing?’...
...Those gathered read from a chorus sheet and half the party go outside to ask for room at the inn, just as Mary and Joseph did in the Christmas story....
...doing mobile safaris....
...happy anywhere else but in one of them....
...In their shoes, he says, he too would take advantage of the Netherlands’ generous government: “If I go on holiday and I can choose between a two-star and a five-star hotel, I’ll choose the five-star.”...
...As the crow flies, it is less than 15 miles from Zermatt to the east, Verbier to the west, yet it has none of their glitz: no casinos, no five-star hotels, neither jewellery shops nor horse-drawn carriage...
...It’s a traditional Greek house, mixed with a 1970s vibe as well, because I’m very inspired by the 70s. It’s completely white and has a big garden full of fruit trees, and a vegetable garden....
...It’s not as good as London for start-ups. The UK is a good place to start a business. London allows me to be international.”...
...IHG, whose brands include Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn, pointed to its underlying results, which exclude one-off factors such as asset disposals....
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