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Beijing Bound. If you're headed to China to do business, Aloft, the affordable hotel geared to the Gen Y generation - with lobbies designed expressly for hanging out, socializing and working - has opened its first overseas outpost in Beijing. (See 10 things to do in Beijing.) Tower 2 No. 25, Yuanda Road, Haidian District, Beijing...
Rising in the East. With the hotel market falling at home, perhaps W will find success with its first outpost in China. The 393-room W Hotel in Hong Kong opened this week on the waterfront in Kowloon, with sweeping views of Victoria Harbor from the rooftop pool. 1 Austin Road West, Hong Kong...
...coordinated international regulation. The crisis affecting Iceland has its roots in the catastrophic consequences of an oversized banking industry in a country without the financial muscle to become a lender of last resort amidst a liquidity crisis. Although the country had been known for generations as an isolated fishing outpost off Europe, in the last few decades the national economy veered from fish to finance. According to official figures, the fishing industry shrunk from 16 percent to 6 percent of GDP between 1986 and 2006. Banking, insurance, and property, meanwhile, came to represent 26 percent...
This Can't Be Good. Magnolia Bakery, the beloved New York City cupcake creator has opened an outpost in Rockefeller Center - a five-minute walk from this travel reporter's desk. The bakery's famous pastel-colored buttercream-frosted cupcakes are made on premises, along with flourless chocolate cakes, brownies and muffins. This is a take-out joint, but you can eat your treats on a bench in Rock Center; if it's cold out, head down into the nearby Rockefeller Center concourse. There's an entrance in the building a few steps from Magnolia, at 1250 Sixth Avenue...
Rooms with a View. Hilton has opened an outpost in Baltimore's Inner Harbor, next to the city's convention center - a sky bridge attaches the two buildings - and it's so close to Camden Yards that you can watch the Orioles play from your window and from the hotel's fitness center. The 757-room hotel is set up for conferences, with the largest ballroom in Baltimore, and meeting spaces with hi-speed Internet access and video-conferencing capabilities. If you have some spare time, the National Aquarium with 16,500 animals, including a tank full of stingrays...