W Macao Studio City
In its continued demand to select only world class destinations, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. have announced plans for a new W Hotel in Macao, further solidifying the brands extensive and rapidly growing global footprint. Scheduled to open in early 2009, this new-build W hotel will be located within the Macao Studio City complex, situated on Cotai, an area earmarked by the Macao government to become one of the main gaming, entertainment and resort developments in the Special Administrative Region. W Macao Studio City will make its debut in 2009, offering 563 guest rooms, in addition to the innovative design and full-range of branded amenities guests have come to expect of W Hotels.

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A recent addition to the product portfolio of SKL is the Elliott collection of external lanterns and post lights. Designed to meet the demands of lighting specifiers requiring a superior approach to design and performance, the Elliott family of luminaires is available in a wide variety of colours and finishes that can be ‘mixed and matched’ to suit the surrounding architecture.

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Paris sees profits leap but Moscow stays in first place
Parisian chain hotels experienced a dramatic jump in profitability this June.

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Curtis Furniture @ the Cadbury house Hotel, Bristol join forces to create bedrooms with a real wow!
The newly built hotel radiates luxury and sophistication with an environment, certain to put at ease anyone who has the pleasure of staying there.

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If I have $4 million in pocket change AND bored with terrestrial vacation spots, I may consider getting off the planet. Galactic Suite, a Spanish venture, will meet my needs. They seek to open a hotel in space by 2012.

"Before the flight, guests would get 8 weeks of intensive training at a space camp on a tropical island."
It is uncertain that the "tropical island" will add to the intensity of the training, but one can hope they have good room service up in orbit.

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IHG (InterContinental Hotels Group), the world’s largest hotel group by number of rooms announced today that a new 117-room Staybridge Suites in London, Ontario is now open. The Staybridge Suites London is the area’s first Staybridge Suites hotel

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"Sheraton Hua Hin Resort & Spa," Thailand’s newest five-star beach resort will open its doors this month, expanding the Sheraton brand’s portfolio of appealing, new resort properties in some of the world’s most enticing vacation spots. Nestled on the Gulf of Siam, Sheraton Hua Hin Resort & Spa offers deluxe accommodations, panoramic ocean views, and a coveted address in Hua Hin, Thailand’s premier beach community Owned by Grande Asset Development Public Company Limited, Sheraton Hua Hin Resort & Spa will also integrate warm, personalized service and a host of comforting amenities into the vacation experience.

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Rowan & Boden completes elegant refurbishment for the Townhouse Company at The Bonham Hotel in Edinburgh
Rowan and Boden would like to announce the successful completion of the first phase of the refurbishment of bedrooms and restaurant at The Bonham Hotel.

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Golden Tulip Hospitality is proud to announce the signing of the agreement to operate the Golden Tulip Brussels Airport. The hotel will open its doors during the first quarter of 2009.

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Well Wednesday came again and it was my day off. So on Wednesday morning I was on the metro at 5:30 in the morning off to metro stop Baldo degli Ubaldi. I met Alberto at around 6:30 and then we got on our way. We had both decided the week before that we would go climb at Gran Sasso.
 
The park is about between 2 and 2 and a half hours drive from Rome. The earlier you manage to leave Rome in the morning the easier it is to get out of the city befor there is too much traffic. So we were finally going back to the park. He hadn’t been there in a year and the last time I was there was about 6 months ago with another friend. It was great and the weather was perfect. We arrived at about 9 because we were stuck behind a couple of very […]

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