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...linking cities in Inner Mongolia are better than the road between Sydney and Melbourne," marvels Bruce McKenzie, who oversees China operations for the U.K.-based InterContinental group, which is among the most aggressive of the international players in China. It currently runs 54 hotels there, mostly under the Holiday Inn marque, and it plans to triple that figure by the end of 2008. Appropriately, Holiday Inn rose to prominence amid another boom, profiting from extensive highway construction across the U.S. after World War II. The chain started with four hotels in Memphis in 1952, expanding to about...
...Thanks to McDonald's, Holiday Inn, and Howard Johnson, one suddenly could travel coast-to-coast and eat from an unvarying menu and sleep in the same room every night. As Alphonse Karr might have mused, "The more one travels, the more one stays in the same place." Indeed, by now, the Interstates' uniform signages - emblazoned with the system's own red-white-and-blue shield icon; others proclaiming speed-limits and upcoming exits; and still others touting McDonald's, Best Western, Exxon, BP, and Wendy's - float through our subconscious like so many branded Jungian archetypes...
...Hilles (along with the Penthouse Coffee Bar on the top floor) will be ready for the start of the fall term. Loker Commons is also being reinvented with music practice rooms and a pub. The pub, named the Cambridge Queen’s Head after a 17th century Inn which enjoyed John Harvard’s custom, will open in February of 2007. And some Yard basements are being renovated for the Harvard Foundation, the new Women’s Center, and religious groups that require daily prayer space.I want to thank President Summers, who contributed most of the funds...
...like a hotel to be more like a home, then you'll love the Old Bangkok Inn, tel: (662) 629 1787. Located on Rajadamnern Avenue, smack in the middle of the Thai capital's historic quarter, this snug little property has just eight individually appointed rooms. Patronne Nantiya Tulyanond can't resist cozy touches such as daily homemade cakes and nightly pillow presents. And her son Joey has been known to lead impromptu tours around the major landmarks of the neighborhood, from the Democracy Monument to the gentrifying nightlife of Khao San Road. He's also[an error occurred while...
...pieces of pottery hand-painted by Nantiya lend a homely feel. Bathrooms feature toiletries custom blended according to one of four aromatic themes?lemongrass, jasmine, orchid and rice. Another pleasing touch is the Tulyanonds' commitment to the environment and the community: showers pump out solar-heated water and the inn's construction incorporates salvaged wood. Guests wanting to do more to save the world can make a donation at checkout to one of the animal or children's charities on the Tulyanonds' list?and the inn will match it. Given that rates can be as low as $79 a night...