Hints and tips:
...Examples might include websites such as Couchsurfing.com, a network of free lodging for travellers, or transport networks such as Blablacar, a version of hitchhiking in which the passenger pays a nominal...
...I trust him deeply because he keeps his word. He is like a cheque book. As soon as a cheque is written, you can count on cashing it, and he doesn’t waste any time.”...
...The company has, though, persuaded millions of consumers that — thanks to its community rating system and identity verification — they can trust Airbnb and each other....
...But there is still the more deep-seated challenge of winning customers’ trust....
...In the biggest year for US property IPOs in almost a decade, the flotation is 2013’s second-largest behind Empire State Realty Trust’s $1.07bn debut earlier this month, according to Dealogic....
...International visitors to the US spent $87.1bn in the first half of 2013 on shopping, lodging, recreation and airfare among other tourism-related goods and services – a 7 per cent increase from a year ago...
...Cerberus, the private equity group, and Chatham Lodging Trust are trying to walk away from their $1.1bn deal to buy 64 hotels from bankrupt chain Innkeepers, arguing that the business had undergone a so-called...
...But it took the help of the Microsoft-backed group – Initiative for a Competitive Online Marketplace – to turn that into a formal anti-trust complaint....
...Michael Salinsky Michael Salinsky is vice-president within RBC Capital Markets Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) team and currently covers the multifamily, lodging and Self-storage sub-sectors....
...The company will pay Land Securities, the UK real estate investment trust, about £22 per sq ft, or more than £4m a year, for the office space, which is big enough to house most of its Wapping workforce....
...CRE got a lot more air time this earnings season, as problems spread beyond homebuilders, and deeper into the likes of multi-family, retail, and lodging and even office....
...IT departments must dispose of devices carefully and not trust the job of wiping old hard drives to a third party....
...Wearing hard hats, wellington boots and waterproof jackets, they could be seen as the tides subsided, measuring the height of watermarks left on buildings....
...Mr Gray is the key player in a private equity industry drawn to lodging because of the financial benefits of owning hotel assets, and because the public has become bullish about global travel....
...But some analysts have criticised Fairmont’s sleepy response to booming business in the lodging sector. A hot real estate market is fueling sales of hotel properties worth billions of dollars....
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