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...says Beecham, "It's got concrete floors, exposed columns and exposed ceilings - it's very urban." Simon Woodroffe, owner of the YO! Sushi restaurant chain, is taking a similar, less-is-more approach to hospitality. Later this month he opens his first "Yotel" at London's Gatwick Airport. "We're doing what I call the Holy Grail of retail: delivering what rich people have to ordinary people," says Woodroffe...
...exterior windows, allowing the pods to be stacked and clustered in sites never before considered for hotels. "It's a very flexible product," says Russell Kett, managing director of hotel consultants HVS in London. The Gatwick Yotel is being crammed into a previously unused basement of the airport's South Terminal. The squeeze on space helps to shrink prices: rates are $107 for a standard room and $156 for a slightly larger cabin. While those charges are less than the London average, it's arguable they're still somewhere north of Cheapside. But Woodroffe claims he's giving folks...
...open this summer, followed by others in Luton, England, and Budapest. EasyHotel has also inked a deal with Dubai's Istithmar Hotels to open another 38 in the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Meanwhile, a third Yotel may open as soon as year-end at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Kuwait's IFA Hotels and Resorts, which is providing financial backing for the Yotels, "wants to expand very, very fast around the world," Woodroffe says. Clearly, the pace of change is picking up speed in the once-sleepy hospitality industry. These days, if you snooze, you lose customers...
...next time you’re at the airport security checkpoint, your luggage may not be the only thing that gets X-rayed. As reported in a recent New York Times article, the SmartCheck body scanner, the newest innovation in transportation security, made its debut at the Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix earlier this year. The scanner can see under travelers’ clothes to detect if they are carrying anything dangerous on board. But before you freak out, you should know the facts. The SmartCheck scanner causes negligible harm and may greatly improve airport security...
...Maybe she thought we were really assassins? She seemed pretty scared." By then Lozano said he realized that Sgrena had just been released after a month in captivity and that the intelligence officers, Carpani and Calipari, had just secured her liberation and were escorting her to the Baghdad airport where an Italian C-130 transport plane was waiting to take her back to Italy...