Smoke and fire rose from Naama Bay, a main strip of beach hotels in the desert city popular with Israeli and European tourists, witnesses said.
They're not golf courses like Pebble Beach or hotels like the Plaza.
The initiative also covers the management of cafes, restaurants, hotels and the beach area.
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Lauderdale means it can offer more space and a closer proximity to the ocean than the Deco hotels of Miami Beach.
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From the Chrysler Building in New York to the pastel hotels of Miami Beach and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Art Deco reshaped architecture in the years before World War II -- though the term wasn't coined until the 1960s, drawn from the name of the 1925 Paris decorative-arts exhibition that popularized the style.
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The TV news was full of announcements for new beach resorts, industrial parks, luxury hotels for visiting businessmen.
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The Tikehau Pearl Beach Resort, part of a Polynesian chain of nine hotels, opened in 2001 and is still the atoll's only place to stay.
The JW Marriott on Copacabana beach is one of the newer, more modern and sophisticated hotels among a sea of aging grand dames in the area.
"In those cases where the destination has overdeveloped, where it has gone over the critical limit of development, one of the only solutions is that you demolish hotels, you create green areas, you rehabilitate the beach areas, you try to bring back some of the biodiversity, " said Dr Tom Selanniemi of the Tour Operators Initiative for Sustainable Tourism Development.
The Jewish population in South Beach has virtually vanished (many preferring North Miami Beach or regions further afield) but, at one time, Jewish hotels, schools and grocers were on every corner.
Also on Oahu is Waikiki Beach, long famed for its mellow surf, outrigger canoes and string of hotels that has recently received a facelift with high-profile openings like Ian Schrager's minimalist-chic resort Edition, the Trump International and new tropical outposts of nouvelle Japanese shrines Nobu and Morimoto.
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Hotels are expensive and usually booked well in advance for Art Basel Miami Beach.
Two years after Katrina's storm surge swallowed 6, 000 of the 25, 000 homes and businesses along Biloxi Beach Boulevard, storm debris has been cleared to make way for high-rise hotels, condominiums, casinos and other businesses.
In Delaware, many residents of beach towns heeded mandatory evacuation orders and a driving ban, and hunkered down at shelters, hotels, and friends' houses.
Hotels and restaurants are being erected in almost every part of the town and in nearby beach areas as the construction boom continues.
Mr Albwardy owns three hotels in Tanzania - the Kilimanjaro Hotel in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, a beach hotel in Zanzibar and a lodge in the Serengeti national park - through the company Albwardy Investment, reports Reuters news agency.
There is a large tennis club, spa, 98-slip marina, seven miles of beach and coastline, a shopping center, a large pedestrian retail village, 20 restaurants, and several hotels.
The old front on Beach Road long ago lost sight of the sea and the hotel itself nearly disappeared in a concrete jungle of new hotels and office blocks.
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