The Savoy was the world's first truly great hotel and it is now again undoubtedly one of the best.

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At Genting--which boasts the world's largest hotel, the 6, 118-room First World that's part of its Genting Highlands casino resort outside Kuala Lumpur--he's responsible for finding new areas for growth.

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In Dubai, you will find the tallest building in the world, the first-ever seven-star hotel and the biggest indoor ski slope.

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And content for us lives first and foremost in the offline world through our hotel guest experience.

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Gucci started as a single store in Florence, opened in 1921 by Guccio Gucci, who had developed an eye for luxury while working as a bellboy at the Savoy Hotel in London before the first world war.

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Abu Dhabi has the world's most expensive hotel ever built and the first ever gold-dispensing ATM.

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In 1997, UNESCO declared the entire town a World Heritage Site, and in 2009, the first boutique hotel, Jing's Residence, opened, mixing ancient and modern styles within a former silk merchant's mansion.

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During the second world war they lived in Britain, at first at the Ritz hotel in London and then in a rented stately home.

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The world's first pair of coastal radio stations were set up at a hotel near the Needles on the Isle of Wight and at another hotel in Bournemouth (later moved to a hotel near Poole, Dorset).

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It was a sign of the huge problems Afghanistan still faces, well President Hamid Karzai was in London during the middle of this week putting the case, the urgent case for more international aid and support and I caught up with him at his hotel and I asked him first if he feared the world was walking away from his country.

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