I would have loved to attend the Sleepers Magazine London Sleep Event, but luckily this morning a press release in my mailbox got me up to date:
Some excerpts:
London, 7 November 2008.
The European Hotel Design Awards, presented by Sleeper Magazine on Thursday, 6 November 2008, is the premier celebration of outstanding innovations in the hospitality [...]
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Posted in News on Aug 14th, 2008
Project Syndicate
is a not-for-profit association of newspapers dedicated to fostering global debate on issues shaping the world today. Our organization has rapidly risen to the forefront of the international print media market as the premier provider of the highest quality opinion and commentary content. In the last years, the number of member newspapers has [...]
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Posted in Belgium, Hotels, Netherlands, News on Aug 11th, 2008
Hospitality veteran Johan Neppelenbroek had set up Historic Hotels of The Benelux as a split off from Erfgoedlogies in order to enable this group of hotels to join the international network of Historic Hotels.
As of August 1, 2008 Annemarieke van der Velden (see photo) has taken over Johan’s position. Johan’s investment in the [...]
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I have uploaded my photos of the opening to Happy Hotelier’s Flickr Account. Some final observations:
The name
Correctly spelled the name is CitizenM and not Citizen M. I cannot change this in my prior posts because of the archiving system I am using here.
The Launch Party
After the Press conference there was the official opening. Rattan [...]
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Posted in Airport, Amsterdam, Been There, Dutch Design, Hoteliers, News, Pod Hotel, The Making of, Travel, Unusual on Jun 24th, 2008
He looks a bit tired, but here is Rattan Chadha, the founder of CitizenM and former owner of the Mexx fashion company who opened the press conference.
Some quotes as a starter:
They started 4 years ago.
Rattan traveled more in his prior life than many in the audience of the well attended press conference will ever do [...]
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Posted in Blogs, Gadgets, Internet, News on May 17th, 2008
It was Lorella Van Fossen (from her name I guess she has Dutch ancestry), avid WordPress advocate, who drew my attention to Woopra with her post Whooping Woopra Blog Statistics Program, starting as follows:
I’m rarely totally and completely blown away by anything, and yesterday at Dallas WordCamp, John Pozadzides (of One Man’s Blog, who works [...]
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Posted in Amsterdam, Blogs, Internet, News, T-List, Things to do, Trends, Twitter, Web 2.0, Websites on Apr 4th, 2008
Again, I must have been under the rocks. This is existing and happening on my doorstep (or in my backyard): Yesterday and today The 2008 Next Web Conference is being held in Amsterdam.
What is The Next Web Conference?
The Next Web Conference is THE European conference for industry thought-leaders, leading web-companies, innovative Startups, visionaries and real [...]
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Posted in Blogs, Inspiration, News, T-List, Travel on Feb 28th, 2008
Benji Lanyado, writing for the Guardian and bragging that he is the author of the web’s only regular column on travel blogs has come up with a great Idea: Travel Bloggers Hopping. He himself calls it Meet the Bloggers. The idea is that he visits a different city each month and gets off the beaten [...]
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