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...might have thought that travel publishers and style professionals would be thunderous in their denouncement of such conformity, but they are its ideologues. Design Hotels-a group whose 142 member properties probably corner the world market in white furniture and puzzling chrome ornaments-compiles the raving apologia of academics and designers in its own, biannual journal (sample: "Hotels of the avant-garde are rapidly becoming the starting points for experiences of reality that allow orientation in a world that is both falling apart and coming together"). Thames & Hudson publishes the Hip Hotels series, an anthology of vacuity, as well...
...Boutique hoteliers, designers, publishers-messieurs, it is time to arise from your collective failure. I am not saying that I know best what the art of travel should consist of. But I do know that the natural order has been reversed when rooms once given over to transient luxury now resemble cells for long-term incarceration, and the contents of travel guides have become...
...Travel too was also incredibly faster. The first primitive railroads started here and there in the 1830s, but during the '40s, "railroad mania" had kicked in--four times as much track was laid in 1848 as the year before. Everyone spoke of the resulting "annihilation of time and space," and in a journal called the Quarterly Review a writer predicted that "as distances [are] thus annihilated, the surface of our country would, as it were, shrivel in size until it became not much bigger than one immense city...
With global travel in its best shape in years, Air France is enjoying the fruits of its 2003 merger with Dutch airline KLM, creating a dual-hub network with considerable global reach. Skeptics predicted the marriage would founder on Dutch resentment of notoriously overbearing French handling of past binational mergers. Yet the partnership has not only functioned better than management or labor had hoped, but has also established the sector's standard for future linkups. "Everyone else is now trying to follow. Some airlines are actually seeking to replicate it to the smallest details," says Yan Derocles, an analyst with...
Quite a turnaround for an airline that lost nearly $1 billion in 1993--the same year marauding workers shocked the travel world by occupying runways and halting traffic at both Paris airports to protest proposed cost cutting. Still bleeding cash the following year, Air France needed a $3.9 billion injection from the government to stay afloat. And despite a considerable restructuring and divestment plan put into place as part of that bailout, by 1998 the airline was back to its bad old tricks. A strike on the eve of the 1998 World Cup, to which France played host, cost...