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...exactly been a hotbed of innovation. There have been some new ideas over the decades, it is true. In 1952, for example, Kemmons Wilson built the first Holiday Inn and revolutionized American motels by introducing standardization and emphasizing cleanliness and value. The era of the big convention-oriented hotels checked in during the 1970s. And in 1984, New York City nightclub entrepreneur Ian Schrager came up with the boutique hotel concept. But for the most part, the basic business model has changed little: sell travelers perfectly acceptable yet generic places to stay for the night at ever-increasing prices, particularly...
...several years, which means more than a billion tourists a year will be on the move by 2010. And many of them will be economy-minded travelers who often pay less than $100 for a plane ticket and aren't inclined to spend several hundred bucks more for a hotel room. At the same time, large plots of real estate in major cities have become increasingly scarce and expensive, making it less profitable to develop traditional hotels. This puts hoteliers in a bind. With costs rising, how will they accommodate the growing legions of budget travelers who want a cheap...
...she’s pretty much smitten. Darling narrates an eerie scene of gazing from her apartment window at the silhouette of Lescaze and his wife behind drawn curtains only a block away. He has three children too, but no matter. Montage: standard affair tropes (stolen kisses, seedy hotel rooms, and the like). Careening towards the gossipy tell-all à la Jessica Cutler’s autobiographical novel “The Washingtonienne,” that other Beltway narrative, the narrative arc of “Necessary Sins” then tacks sharply away. After Lescaze?...
...Kurdish Iraqis, for their part, resent being treated as second-class citizens in Kurdish Iraq. "Why do I need permission to live in my own country?" said Walaa Matti, an Assyrian Christian who recently fled his home in Mosul and now works in the business center of a hotel in Erbil. "I'm Iraqi and this is my country, but I feel like a stranger...
Once a palatial private home built around a series of two-story courtyards, the hotel boasts magnificent views across the mountains, down to the Málaga coast and, on clear days, as far as Gibraltar and even Morocco (hence the name). Each of the nine bedrooms is different and all are romantic, though not luxurious. There's a pool and a hot tub. And a cool restaurant with a shaded terrace...