Word: radisson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thousand folks milled genially around the swimming pool of the Radisson South Hotel in Bloomington, Minnesota. In the gaudy gathering were folks bedecked as alien creatures and Japanese dinosaurs, staggering derelicts and severed heads on surgical trays. If anyone looked displaced in this demented Renaissance Fayre, it was the two gents in Starship Enterprise uniforms. Their name tags read whoops wrong convention...
...Lines with older ships, like Norwegian Cruise Line, are frantically updating to meet the changing demand. NCL's Norway, for instance, was renovated with a huge Roman spa and a first for cruise liners -- two hydrotherapy baths. Record revenues at Carnival are attracting the interest of hoteliers: in May, Radisson Hotels International will introduce the world's first luxury cruise ship with a dual-hull catamaran, designed with corporate groups of 354 in mind. Besides the latest in telecommunications, it has a helicopter pad up top for the late-arriving executive...
Like it or not, Cuban officials are apparently preparing for the inevitable: life after the disappearance of the yearly $5 billion in Soviet aid. Twice within the past year, the heads of giant American hotel chains -- Curtis Carlson of Radisson and Jay Pritzker of Hyatt -- were invited to pay secret visits to the island. Once there, flown in surreptitiously via Mexico City, the Americans were shown scale models of prime beachfront property and asked to select one for future development. Intriguingly, these displays were set up just outside Fidel Castro's office in Havana. Castro was nowhere in sight during...