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When launched Qbic got featured on CNN. I didn’t see it myself. I red the transcript once, but thanks to fellow Blogger Época Alta I found the Youtube link:

The first Qbic Hotel is four months in operation now and its occupancy rates are reportedly over 90%.

Unofficially, according to a comment on its Blog, confirmed by a post on the official WSC Blog, Dutch Nuna4 has won the World Solar Challenge.
They arrived at Port Augusta at 16.54 hr local time, just 6 minutes before closing time of the control and finished the official timed stretch of the race. The Port […]

With this magnificent photo that I pinched from the Panasonic World Solar Challenge site today, I’ll give you a short update after 3 days of racing and a rest day in Alice Springs:

Nuna4 of the Nuon Solar Team (Delft, Netherlands) with 756 km to go to the finish in Adelaide
Umicore Solar Team (Belgium) roughly 82 […]

Huis ter Duin in Noorwijk changed into a fort

Today and tomorrow 27 ministers of defense meet “informally” in Noorwijk, just a couple of miles North East from The Hague.
According to the Nato site they will
discuss the way ahead for NATO’s operations and Alliance transformation.
The ministers will discuss ways to ensure that the NATO-led operations in […]

In order to sniff up some travel and luxury travel news I would like to attend WTM as a Blogger, not as a Hotelier. Not being able to offer thousands of rooms my hotel is simply too small to justify a visit to WTM (although I did that once in the past).
So by way of […]

Hotel Everland on top of the Palais de Tokyo

Wow! What a view from your room on the Eiffel Tower!

From the roof of the Leipzig Gallery of Contemporary Art the one room (one suite) Hotel Everland has moved to the roof of the Paris Palais de Tokyo where it will receive guests for an overnight stay […]

Serene Pottery Scene where once the bulls roamed

Back to Luxury Hotels:
Quinta Real Hotels is a chain of presently 9 luxury hotels. For me the Bullring turned into an all suite hotel in Zacatecas in the province of Zacatecas with 36 Master suites, 13 Grand Class suites and 1 presidential suite is a true boutique hotel. […]

Trafalgar Hotel

This weekend the London Trafalgar Hotel served as podium for Bridge Art Fair, a Chicago-based arts programming organization Bridge, NFP which organizes annual Bridge Art Fairs in Chicago, Miami and London.
As Part of The Bridge Art Fair Capla Kesting featured Iraq War Memorial: Death of Prince Harry.

Iraq War Memorial: Death of Prince Harry

by Daniel […]

El Blog de un Hotel banner

My Blogger friend Albert Barra pointed me to El Blog de un Hotel or The Blog of a Hotel.
Not that I am able to read or write Spanish, but with the help of Google Translate (Beta) I can at least assume I know a bit about what El Blog […]

Photo © Veerle Pieters

Veerle Pieters is a Grapic/Web designer based in Belgium, a talented photographer and founder of Duoh!, a dynamic print/new media and web design company, based in Deinze –near Ghent, Belgium, She has an impressing portfolio.
Veerle’s Blog 2.0 is always interesting to read. The Blog covers a myriad of subjects that interest me […]

Recently the Dutch Hotel Search engine Hoteltip! was launched.
Like a sort of crawler the site looks for hotel rooms at various portals/bookings engines. It claims to return the cheapest rates. All depends on the portals they signed up off course, but in the process you can see which sites they crawl.
It was featured on Killer […]