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...Ralph Grippo, China manager for Ritz-Carlton hotels. "But there's no way you can knock off luxury service. It's about human beings and experience. That's not something you can duplicate." Ford agrees: "There's no Chinese company right now that can go toe to toe with Marriott," or with other big chains such as Hyatt, Hilton and Westin. "They just don't have the brand name or international drawing power." As a result, local firms are eagerly teaming up with the foreign giants, which contribute their names and expertise, and also ensure that the hotels are designed...
...Less exclusive segments of the market are already getting crowded. The Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt chains all have plans for big pushes within the "economy" segment of the industry, defined as three stars and below, importing brands such as Marriott Courtyard and Hilton Garden Inns from the U.S. Several Chinese hotel companies, notably the Jinjiang Group, are chasing after the same market, intensifying the sense of urgency. "It's amazing how fast things move in China," says Brian Deeson, head of China operations for the French lodging group Accor, which has four Ibis Hotels on the mainland and plans...
...blessed," he says, "to work for the two greatest news organizations in the country: the New York Times and National Public Radio.") He occasionally contributes puzzles to Games. And since he was 25 (he's now 53), he has run an annual crossword puzzle tournament at the Marriott in Stamford, Ct. He founded it in 1978, mostly out of an urge - a strange one, considering the solitude in which crosswords are constructed and solved - to meet other puzzle people. At the first tournament, the guest of honor was Margaret Farrar. And in 2005 filmmaker Patrick Creadon brought a crew there...
...crazy 80s” took on a whole new meaning. “Every possible reporter was completely deployed on covering the riots,” she remembers. “You couldn’t believe the stuff you were covering. And then two years into it, the Marriott Boat lift occurred. There was a gigantic historic upheaval, and I was there.”She then moved to Boston, married former Phillips Exeter Academy classmate Eric Wetlaufer, and became a reporter for the Associated Press, an opportunity she calls “eye-opening...
...million each year by claiming that plots being converted into shopping malls and subdivisions are farmland and qualify for property-tax breaks. Farther south, near Fort Lauderdale, "we have cows walking over pavement and grazing outside hotels," says Broward County appraiser Lori Parrish. She points to a Courtyard by Marriott, where some 40 head of cattle had cut yearly taxes on the 18-acre plot to $618.94 before the hotel opened. The herd did not check out when the Courtyard started welcoming guests last year: in 2005 the cows chewed some $58,000 off the hotel's tax bill...