Among the most popular sports choices: Boston's Ritz Carlton, Chicago's Peninsula Hotel and New York's Westin in Times Square.

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Some, like the Ritz Carlton South Beach's tanning butler and Hotel Monaco's pet psychic, trend toward the whimsical.

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The development's casino and a Ritz-Carlton hotel closed in 2010, and the company that owned much of the undeveloped land filed for bankruptcy protection.

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"Two years ago, no one would have touched anything to do with Lake Las Vegas, " says Andrew Stegen, general manager of Ravella, the hotel that filled the Ritz-Carlton's shell in early 2011.

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Ritz-Carlton's use of cobalt-blue glasses in its hotel dining rooms can be traced back to Boston in the 1920s, for example, where window glass that had been imported from Europe and turned blue in the New England air was a symbol of wealth.

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Ritz-Carlton's Stephenson sees children leading their parents into caring about the environment on their hotel stays.

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With the paper's Second Annual Innovation Awards and Summit, to be held at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco on September 23rd, we would like to do two things.

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That includes the Four Seasons Hotel and the Ritz Carlton, both in Chicago, a half-interest in a Westin Hotel in Boston's Copley Place and the Four Seasons Olympic in Seattle.

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Inland, tall ironwood trees announce Kapalua, 23, 000 acres of Maui's most well-thought-out resort development, which includes a recently renovated Ritz-Carlton hotel.

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