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...military-backed regime has attempted to prop up the collapsing industry by promoting internal tourism. Working with resorts and hotels on Roatán Island, a popular Caribbean dive spot off Honduras' northern coast, the de facto tourism board is promoting special two-for-one vacation deals. Many Hondurans have taken the bait, flocking to the white sands of Roatán and filling hotel rooms that were once occupied by U.S. and European travelers. Hondurans who support the de facto regime, such as tour operator Vilma Sauceda of Rema Tours, says the fact that Hondurans are "traveling like crazy...
...from the German border, red apples were peeping out from beneath heaps of early snow on the trees. In the 16th century, Germans settled alongside Czechs in the town and built flourishing factories, one of which is said to have produced a carpet for the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City that was deemed the world's largest in the 1920s. But Czechoslovakia's German minority suffered greatly in the Depression on the eve of World War II and many threw their support behind Konrad Henlein, leader of the country's pro-Nazi ethnic German party. As punishment...
...past, Darkhawk has tried to win the “Aruba Poker Classic” package, which includes airfare and a week-stay at a hotel, all advertised with the help of scantily clad females. “I was kinda close,” Darkhawk says. “I was getting really excited. It’s not like going to a poker tournament—it’s like a vacation.” He says the “Caribbean Poker Adventure” sounded pretty good, too. For many professionals, such luxuries are close...
...much smaller Pan American Games, which ended up costing the city 10 times the original $177 million estimate. The 2016 Games' $14 billion budget includes a $427 million Olympic Village for athletes, but lodging and security for everybody else are still question marks: Rio is short on hotel rooms, and the city's homicide rate, 47 per 100,000 residents, not only is triple that of Olympic also-ran Chicago but is also up 10% this year...
...BUNGALOW New Jersey's funky beach town of Long Branch got a whole lot funkier this summer with the arrival of the Bungalow, BungalowHotel.net. It's a 24-room hotel with Technicolor public spaces courtesy of hip husband-and-wife interior team Robert and Cortney Novogratz of Sixx Design. Rooms have names like Aloha and Kahuna and are starkly white with cowhide chairs and kitschy flea-market posters. Pool, table football, board games and cocktails are found in the Bungalow Lounge. And while there aren't many amenities in-house, guests can pay a small additional...