Word: holidaying
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...DIED. KEMMONS WILSON, 90, founder of the Holiday Inn chain whom TIME once called "the Man with 300,000 Beds"; in Memphis, Tenn. Irate at shoddy accommodations during a family vacation, Wilson built the first Holiday Inn in Memphis in 1952 with the goal of offering customers something novel: comfortable, child-friendly, inexpensive lodging. Fueled by a growth in American families traveling the new interstate highway system, the chain expanded from 100 in 1959 to 1,700 in 1975. There are now some 3,000 motels worldwide bearing the Holiday Inn name...
When you Trek Nepal's Annapurna Circuit you get ... Bragging Rights and Beauty Rest When I told my boss about my holiday-trekking plans, he grimaced and proclaimed, "It's so dirty." When I informed my friends that I was going to spend 15 days hiking 300 kilometers around one of the Himalaya's most iconic mountain massifs, they told me I was "hard-core." They were all wrong: I discovered that hiking Nepal's Annapurna circuit is almost luxurious?and you can do it alone...
...better adjust to the 3,000-m-plus altitude. I spent my afternoons lounging in the sun with a pot of tea and a book or visiting nearby hot springs with a cold beer. Hard-core? Hardly. I was getting more rest on my two-and-a-half-week holiday here than from the last six vacations combined...
...DIED. KEMMONS WILSON, 90, business visionary who founded the Holiday Inn chain of hotels in 1951 after a disappointing family trip; in Memphis, Tennessee. Described as "the vacation that changed the face of the American road," by 1969 Holiday Inn had grown into the largest hotel chain in the world. It now has over 1,000 U.S. outlets...
...children per woman, well below the 2.1 required for a population to replace itself. That's where the Love Boat comes in. The brainchild of self-styled sex guru Dr. Wei Siang Yu, the "Love Boat" package offers couples a boat cruise and one night at an Indonesian holiday resort, along with a fertility education program and a sex counselor. "We are relieving the stress," says Dr. Wei. While bosses in high-pressured Singapore might encourage performance anxiety in the office, the Love Boat mellows the mood with "various sensual stimuli," including music, aromatherapy and aphrodisiacal meals. Would-be parents...