Five months ago he could have snapped up an American hotel chain at rock-bottom prices, as investors fretted about an oversupply of rooms and disappointing profits.
The paltry returns from, say, a share in a Havana hotel would be dwarfed by the value that could be realised by selling that stake to an American hotel chain.
While terrorism, war and political unrest have hammered the travel and leisure industry, they sure haven't stopped big North American hotel operators from developing properties abroad, even in the hot spots.
Mr Bollenbach, who previously wrought wonders at Marriott and Disney, has much more experience in the leisure business than Starwood's Mr Sternlicht, by instinct a property man (although he recently bought Westin, an American hotel chain).
When decent profits were being made in one part of a corporate empire, say, just as an example, Latin American telephone systems, then those profits were used internally to fund the purchase of North American hotel chains.
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"We'll miss our friends and home in the Hamptons, but figured that by leaving, it opens up valuable tables at Nick and Toni's and the American Hotel, " jokes Mr. Sonnenfeld, referring to the East Hampton restaurant and Sag Harbor hotel, respectively.
American casino and hotel magnate Sheldon Gary Adelson, seen here with architect Moshe Safdie, constructed a casino resort in Singapore's Marina Bay.
Kohler has gradually transformed the town from an industrial site to a resort town, with high-end American Club Resort Hotel, and the nearby golf courses at Whistling Straits and Blackwolf Run.
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Presenting the award to him at the Plaza Hotel was American billionaire Ted Forstmann, also a dinner chair for the event, which was sponsored by the Business Council for International Understanding.
Italian police have reopened investigations into the theft of an American Airlines uniform from a Rome hotel.
Missing were the kind of sparks you'd expect when, say, representatives of the American Library Association share a drafty hotel ballroom with members of Family-Friendly Libraries.
Another American, alone in the same hotel.
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Over the July 4th weekend, a summit called Texas Defending the American Dream took place in a chilly hotel ballroom in Austin.
The American businessman has said the 140-bedroom hotel at Menie will only proceed if plans for an offshore wind farm off Aberdeen do not proceed.
Since I grew up loving college basketball, I'm here to help you understand what's going on so that you can bluff your way through a meeting with American clients or hold your own in the hotel bar, at least for a few minutes.
Back in our hotel room, we indulged ourselves in American movies on satellite TV until well after midnight.
The American businessman had previously said his 140-bedroom hotel at Menie would only proceed if plans for the wind farm did not go ahead.
Donald Trump, an American property developer, is planning a 68-storey hotel and resort.
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Next year, Mr. Cioffi plans to open a restaurant in the hotel, under the helm of a prominent American chef.
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At Ars Technica, Nate Anderson writes about American University Professor Sean Flynn, who claims that a hotel near the negotiations had been explicitly asked not to allow public interest groups to hold meetings on the day of the negotiations.
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Nick Ward, head of Caribbean and South American development at Marriott International, one of the biggest hotel managers in the region, also points to the burden of employment laws that force hotel companies to keep on staff out of season and to import taxes on fixtures and furniture.
Jake (John Malkovich) and Tina (Andie MacDowell) are a glamorous American couple camping out in a suite in a swank London hotel.
And now that the hotel is adding an art museum, designed by American artist James Turrell, more travelers will likely make the trek.
We disclosed to the auditor that her reconstruction of her time (21 hours) dealing with this issue was supported by the receipts from all the vendors, her telephone records with calls to all the vendors, her airline tickets (evidenced by American Express card statements) for flying to the property, her rental hotel while dealing with the property, and sworn affidavits from the vendors who dealt only with her.
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But it seems a mite harsh to ridicule a Japanese hotel in Holland for failing to produce a definitive version of this American offering.
U.S. diplomats opening a new American Embassy were temporarily housed in a sky-high suite of the pricey Corinthia Hotel.
To forgo the hotel's restaurant, DB Bradley, named for a 19th-century American missionary, would be sinful indeed.
In November, the Marriott hotel chain began construction in Georgetown, and US air carriers, such as American Airlines are considering establishing routes to Guyana soon.
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