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Archive for March, 2007

Hoteliers: Be Discrete!

And here ladies and gentlemen you see the bath tub where our dear Queen Beatrix, Crown Prince Willem and/or his Maxima and kids splash around, when they are on holiday in Patagonia.
How do I know? because an indiscreet hotelier mentioned them (and John Major) in an interview as guests visiting her hotel […]

Three young Dutchman of 27 yrs have designed, developped and launched The Senz Storm Umbrella. It gets a lot of attention worldwide and they won a prestigious German 2007 Red Dot Award.
Even the Red Dot site is not up to date yet:-)
Again a nice amenity/gadget for a hotel.

Nancy Jarecki of NYC hadn’t planned on starting a cosmetics company, until a few years ago she noticed in a Roman hair salon a ritual whereby the ladies leaving the shop got a small envelope from their haircolorist. Asked what that was about, the receptionist answered “Per sotto per farli cobocaiari” meaning “For the hair […]

Hideo Stores stores sells this stylish attache. The designer is Hideo Wakamatsu, a Japanese designer based in Tokyo. He draws on Japanese and French design traditions.
Born and raised in Tokyo, Hideo is the scion of a family business that is Japan’s leading maker of “randoseru”raditional Japanese schoolbags. After studying Japanese and French art and literature […]

Backpackers on High Heels: Bangkok is a site that originates in Amsterdam, well the registrant has his address in Amsterdam. Currently it gives a stylish presentation about where to go, eat sleep and party in Bangkok.
Amsterdam, Hanoi and Bali are to follow soon.

PAL-V stands for a hybrid of a car, a motorbike and a gyrocopter: a Personal Air and Land Vehicle. PAL-V is an initiative of Dutch entrepreneur John Bakker. John takes the Carver Technology one step further. The Carver technology has been developped by another Dutchman, Chris van den Brink, who developped the

Carver One, a […]

The Ambassador’s Last stand is a blog about the last days of the famous LA Ambassador Hotel.
They still have to update with the actual demolition of the hotel which was all over the news recently. 
I was wrong: The demolition I was referring to, was a Las Vegas Hotel

Sometimes you have to sit behind your computer screen and read a Blog post of someone far away in a foreign language (0300VD) to become a little bit proud of your own city where with a lot of difficulty a piece of the infrastructure has been knitted together and now attracts attention because of its […]

Times Online Travel Blog

The Uk Times Travel Blog is currently written by a fellow hotelier from Cornwall, Mark Hayes, who prior to buying and building his own 3 room B&B, used to fill 25.000 hotel rooms per night in Florida for Disney.
I would say it is a great promotion for a B&B if you may write about it […]

Sean is a journalist who writes for the Guardian a weekly column “Best of the Net” and who has started a Blog Idle Jottings in January. Not much content there yet, but that will be difficult when you are bound to give your best to the Guardian first and for all. I hope he […]

Thanks to Back of House in DBX, a startup Dubay hotel employee’s Blog, I noticed Guests Behaving Badly in Australia:
Guests Behaving Badly Pty Limited (GBB) is a member based organisation designed to minimise the occurrence of anti-social, intimidatory and destructive behaviour that currently affects guests, service providers and their staff within the hospitality […]

Recently Travel in Blogs seems to have started a sort of Travel Blog community. From the outset it seams a great idea, but there is hardly anything available on the site about the site, about who does it and why they do it.
What do you think?
Added 15 March:
The basic idea is that Bloggers submit stories […]

The New T-List

The T-List (and L-List) initiative is spreading and spreading.
I try to keep track of both on my T-List and L-List page and before I add the suggestions of Cesar, I counted today 122 T-Listed Blogs and 44 L-listed Blogs.
And now Cesar Gonsales of the multi authored Argentina’s Travel Guide has given it a […]

Yes, Mr “The Don” Donald Trump himself Blogs as well. In a recent advice to Keep It Short, Quick, Crisp and Clean or K.I.S.S. he gives some advice, but look at the comments of his post where I found this one:
Posted by member1528271 on 03/06/2007 10:25 AM
Hi Mr. Trump. I am a chinese student in […]

I am checking out Netvibes.
I do a search via Netvibes’ Google search module with key word “Happy Hotelier” and I get this:
John Gibson wrote:
WHAT I didn’t know about happy hotelier Peter Tyrie, owner of the Glasshouse in Edinburgh’s Greenside and former owner of the Balmoral and Caley, is that he used to be on […]

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