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Paying It Forward. For each three-night stay you book with the Sol Melia hotel group - which includes Paradisus Resorts in Costa Rica, ME by Melia Hotels in Madrid and Gran Melia Hotels & Resorts in Cancun - you'll get a free night's future stay at any property. Rates vary but start at about $199 to $279 per night. 888-95-MELIA...
Spending Where it Counts Re Inbox Dec. 22: Sol Kerzner, along with other South African hoteliers, donated a large sum to kick-start the fund for a new hotel school at the University of Johannesburg. Without this the school probably would not exist today. After the tragic death of Sol's son, the family started the Butch Kerzner memorial bursary fund for underprivileged gifted children to study in the hospitality industry. This will fund up to 10 children's studies next year. Beside all this is the example Kerzner has set for others to grow our industry. Henk Bredenoord...
...Cobo claims he first came into contact with the Zetas while covering crime for the small-town newspaper Sol del Istmo. "Journalists were threatened," he said. "One time, they told me not to publish a story about some men who were arrested with guns. They said the story couldn't come out." When he joined up with these gangsters, he said his first job was to monitor the local roads. Later he helped set up the abductions of any cartel targets on those routes. "They kidnapped people who had committed what they said was a crime," he said. "Many were...
Spending Where It Counts Sol Kerzner is reported as having spent some $20 million on an extravaganza to open his Atlantis resort in Dubai, to which he invited the very rich and famous [Dec. 1]. Yet in his own home town of Johannesburg where, as in the rest of South Africa, over half the population is under 25 and many are AIDS orphans, this generation - and the next - faces widespread unemployment, a struggle for education in derelict and under-resourced schools, and homelessness in an environment riddled with crime. The challenge goes out to Kerzner to put an equivalent...
...look at it as business," explains bin Sulayem. "If he is the best Jewish man but has no vision, we wouldn't do business with him. But if he is from Timbuktu with a good idea, we will. What people believe is up to them. And when Sol came to Dubai, he didn't wear a flag that said, 'By the way, I'm Jewish.' " Addressing Western fears about the Arab and Islamic worlds back in his office at the Atlantis, Kerzner adds, "I don't think it's good to have stereotyped notions of people." He says...