Hints and tips:
...While in Chad, Ravà had arranged for Tropic to help with animal GPS collaring for the Sahara Conservation Fund, and some work with African Parks – two international NGOs working with the Chadian government...
...The Savoy Hotel, that’s who, and plenty of other companies, as detailed in a terrific story by our colleagues Tabby Kinder and Emma Agyemang....
...I still love some of the places we frequented (The Pig, a small chain of hotels, does an excellent job). But problems arose....
...His GPS showed we had reached 4,913m — 196 short of the summit. But Paluku urged me on....
...From €129, sani-dunes.com Photograph: René-Gabriel Ojéda/RMN-GP...
...Mr Su became the latest casualty in President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign....
...The previous day, state media had announced that Su Shulin, a former Sinopec boss who had sat across from Mr Pa at that 2008 meeting, had been placed under investigation for “suspected serious disciplinary...
...Global and African business travelers demand two- and three-star hotels as well as top-tier properties....
...Guests will have instruction from the carmaker’s staff, then drive Land Rover vehicles on guided journeys between hotels or wilderness camps....
...The Ally IPO is the US’s biggest since Hilton Worldwide, the hotel chain operator backed by Blackstone, raised $2.7bn in December....
...Investments and South African hotel entrepreneur Sol Kerzner – would see one of France’s great cultural icons pass into foreign ownership....
...It is strictly location-based, using GPS to determine which potential matches are nearby, encouraging dating on the fly....
...Ten shortlisted designers, including Damien Ravn from Norway and Xing Su from Canada, presented catwalk shows in the hope of winning the grand prize of €15,000, and making the leap from newcomer to established...
...Immediately after the takeover was concluded in the early hours of the morning – with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, playing a lucrative cameo as broker in talks at London’s Claridges hotel...
...By the time we arrive at the hotel, the sun is high and sea and sky are pristine china-blue....
...This year, Dubai World agreed a $25bn restructuring with banks, setting the clock ticking on a five- to eight-year process of selling off assets to repay lenders while paying sub-commercial interest rates...
...Income mobility, once America’s greatest exception, is now wallowing at sub-European levels....
...On Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the four-star Aloft Hotel – and its hip WXYZ bar – opened in January, the first new Harlem hotel in 45 years....
...With a lobby on the 102nd floor of the International Commerce Centre and 312 rooms stretching up to the 117th floor, it will be the world’s highest hotel....
...The night before, De Carteret had briefed us at our hotel. Like any good adventure travel guide he had some lines to stir the faint-hearted....
...This offers to pay back the principal over five to eight years on sub-commercial interest rates....
...Blackstone’s private equity arm recently closed the benchmark liability management exercise for hotel-backed CMBS when it restructured USD 20bn of Hilton Hotels debt....
...Mandarin Oriental and Ritz-Carlton hotels are also scheduled to open by the end of 2011....
...Armed with a GPS and range finder, we quickly noted coordinates and distance to the vehicle....
...The appeal to foreigners looking to buy apartments comes as the city’s hotels and shops are bulging with tourists eager to take advantage of the weak dollar....
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