Leona Helmsley in 2001
Photo thanks to NYTimes
Former part time model, secretary and successful property sales woman Leona Helmsley, born Rosenthal and having been married to property tycoon Harry Helmsley, passed away in her summer home in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA, on August 20, 2007.
The Helmsleys owned inter alia the Helmsley Collection of hotels
It is fascinating to [...]
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Posted in Blogs, Promotions, UK on Mar 19th, 2007
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 [...]
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WWW also stands for World Wide Web. Nevertheless, just for the fun of it and to confuse the search engines, I will tag this post with my WWW tag that I originally intended for items related to the Internet. The other posts filed under WWW have now the tag “Internet”. My spell checker keeps saying [...]
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Posted in Luxury, Promotions, USA on Dec 28th, 2006
The Battery Park Ritz-Carlton in New York City makes a perfect pitch how to spend this year’s average Wall Street bonus.
According to BusinessWeek, the average Wall Street bonus in 2006 will be $137,580. Sure you could use the money to buy a luxury car, but how about sharing a once-in-a-lifetime evening with your [...]
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Posted in Luxury, Promotions, Suite Talk on Dec 18th, 2006
December 14, 2006 the »The Peninsula Hotel of Hong Kong took delivery of 14 Rolls Royces Phantom which are adjusted to their own specifications. These included an extended wheelbase, a cool box for chilled hand towels, customized tread plates and a new, larger luggage compartment. In-car entertainment is supplied via a Lexicon sound system employing [...]
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Posted in Design, History, Hoteliers, Luxury, News, Promotions, The Making of, Trends, UK, USA on Aug 12th, 2006
I am not sure whether now 60 years young New Yorker Ian Schrager is into yachts and yachting, but I do know for sure that Philippe Starck is (as is the other famous hotel creator Anouska Hempel, or Lady Weinberg). Ian has created a couple of hotels together with Philippe Starck. Hence the title.
In any [...]
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Posted in Promotions, Trends on Jul 17th, 2006
What’s that? An -of course- pink hotel suite where wild parties of your teener daughter can be hosted instead of at your home. The rooms are sound proof: Hard rock music or karaoke sessions don’t bother the other guests. A spacious walk in shower and ample make up facilities and -products are available and off [...]
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Posted in Design, Luxury, Promotions on Jun 28th, 2006
With an article and this splendid photo on the 12th cover of »Theme:NL, a Dutch glossy devoted to the stylish part of Dutch hospitality industry, »NL-Hotel was nicely featured this month.
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