Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wife Janet plunked themselves down beside King following a concert in Indian Wells, Calif. The couple spent 45 minutes chatting with the blues great, whose work Graham has adored for nearly 20 years. Along with the cherished face time, the Grahams also got round-trip airfare to California, hotel accommodations and tickets to the concert...
This could be the golden age of business travel, especially for those who are rolling up bonus travel miles. Airlines, hotels and credit-card companies are trying to outdo one another in their quest to grab a bigger share of the 57 million people in the U.S. who belong to bonus-reward programs. These business travelers ring up a staggering 500 billion points and miles annually--more than the airlines, rental-car companies and hotel chains can accommodate without cutting off their paying customers. Hotel rooms and airline seats are increasingly--and exasperatingly--scarce during peak travel times, which makes...
Especially for those who rack up major miles, the new rewards can be as rich as the marketer's imagination will allow. No longer measured merely in terms of upgrades to first class and discounts on hotel rooms, rewards now come in the form of highly orchestrated fantasies, charitable works and gobs of expensive merchandise. "It's a great time to be a member of these programs," says Randy Petersen, editor and publisher of InsideFlyer magazine, a monthly industry publication. Petersen, the foremost expert on frequent-flyer programs, has been analyzing and publishing information about these programs for the past...
Then there are the auction items like the one Steve Graham successfully bid for. Participants can attend in person or phone in or write in their bids ahead of time. Hotel companies offer auctions as well, but InsideFlyer's Petersen says the airline auctions tend to have sexier awards. Take Northwest's: since 1996, WorldPerks, the frequent-flyer program of the airline, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has conducted three bidding sessions--in Detroit, Minneapolis and at Sotheby's in New York City. No minimum bids are required, and the proceedings are open to any of WorldPerks' approximately 17 million members...
...Fidel Castro is in Geneva to address international health and trade conferences, and -- wouldn?t you know it -- he just happens to be staying at the same hotel as Mrs. Clinton. "Everyone is in their own place and it works very well," the director of the Intercontinental Hotel told AP. But those looking for a historic thaw should keep an eye on the ice machine...