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...home--the combined kitchen/family room where everyone now hangs out--the Gen Y customer wants a similar seamless experience on the road. That's a big change from boomers, who wanted to be rewarded for traveling. They expected a hotel that was nicer than their home, which Fairmont, Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton have provided since the '80s. According to Y Partnership, this next generation of travelers wants casual food available anytime, free Internet, views and self-service check-in/checkout. Gen Y may represent only 9% of business travelers at the moment, but it is 75 million strong. Change...
...offer the best in sleep are creating super-slumber chambers, with soft lighting, modified minibars stocked with herbal teas, and more. Take the KN Tranquility Suite, created for the Hotel Monaco in Chicago by pajama designer Karen Neuberger, with soothing colors and luxe bamboo bedding. Or consider the Fairmont Washington D.C., where the sleep menu includes a de-stress neck massage, an in-room yoga sleep class, herbal teas or smoothies with lavender cookies, and a teddy bear. "It does help," says business traveler Emily Gilden, whose frequent trips often left her weary until she started exploring hotels that...
...that gives members access, via a fleet of three private jets, to nine sites around the world, including St. Andrews. Membership starts at $3 million. The town's existing North American--owned luxury hotels--Kohler Co.'s Old Course Hotel, which owns the nearby Duke's Course, and the Fairmont St. Andrews--are both undergoing major renovations with the same market in mind...
...penthouse suite in San Francisco's posh Fairmont Hotel & Tower has served oil sheiks, Hollywood stars and every U.S. President since Eisenhower. Now it has a new distinction: renting for $20,000 a night during the Christmas season, the suite has become the world's most expensive hotel accommodation...
...Wakim campaign trailed the incumbent in fund-raising by a 2-1 margin, but it received a $100,000 boost Aug. 16 from First Lady Laura Bush. About 250 to 300 people turned out for a rally in Fairmont, a small hill community in northwestern West Virginia that calls itself "the friendly city." Wakim has also benefited from a flurry of direct-mail ads and television spots attacking Mollohan for the federal funds he has steered to the non-profit groups Those ads - including one mailer that screams, "The Worst Tradition in Government" - are paid for by the Economic Freedom...