For cyclical properties like airlines, industrials and even hotels, fixed-charge coverage of just one (suggesting that a company's earnings are just enough to satisfy debt, lease and principal repayment over the next year) can evaporate overnight.
Street Sweeper has reported about such scams hitting major financial institutions such as Citibank, JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, credit card companies such as Discover, the Subway sandwich chain, and even hotels and other businesses.
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Backpackers are long used to renting bikes through guesthouses, but even upscale hotels like the Four Seasons Sayan in Bali will arrange impromptu bike trips for guests.
When you notify your card issuers about your travels, make sure they have a way to contact you, such as your travel cellphone, email or even the hotels where you will be staying.
There is no internet access even in expensive hotels.
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This means they know France, get reserved blocks of rooms at the best hotels even during the Tour, and unlike most cycling tour operators, they own their fleets of bicycles and support vehicles.
With the blessing of El Paso Chairman William Wise , Jenkins plans to buy fiber-optic equipment, metropolitan communications loops and even "telco hotels" stuffed with switches that allow customers to select among many competing carriers.
But they also have exclusive in-house amenities, such as a private lobby desk and concierge staff, with escorted in-room iPad registration, one of the best upgrades you can get in a city where main lobby registration, even at top hotels, often resembles the economy class check-in line at JFK. The 24-hour room service features the first-ever in-room dining menu designed by the man himself, culinary legend Nobu Matsuhisa.
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Services such as booking rental cars, hotels and even guided tours at destinations will be added.
Other U.K. retail landlords have added multiscreen cinemas, Michelin-starred restaurants, hotels and even a network of country walks to their developments.
More hotels (even those without in-house wedding planners) are offering their whole property, giving wedding parties an improved rate and creating exclusive event packages.
Shen expects to double the number of inns he runs next year and is exploring a new chain of hotels with even smaller, cheaper rooms.
The Department of City Planning report even cites conversion to hotels and condos as one of the drags on the ability of Midtown East to compete with the likes of Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Even if Bulgari's hotels turn out not to make any money, the venture could be considered an expensive, yet effective, advertising campaign, says Antoine Colonna of Merrill Lynch in Paris.
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The respondents in aggregate accepted from brokers dozens of expensive trips, frequently by private jet, including excursions to the Super Bowl, family vacations to Bermuda, Nantucket and the Caribbean, golf outings at exclusive clubs in Florida and South Carolina, weekends in Las Vegas, lodging at fine hotels, and even an extravagant, three-day bachelor party for Bruderman in Miami.
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Even some early-wave boutique hotels have embraced new looks as part of recent renovations.
If you've yet to lay your hands on a Chromebook or Chromebox, that could change shortly, as the computers may soon find a new life in libraries, hotels, retail stores and even the break room.
When the visitors stop coming, the damage ripples far beyond the hotel workers and the shop keepers and the caleche drivers, to the farmers who supply the hotels with tomatoes or, even worse, vegetables such as Brussels sprouts and asparagus that tourists eat but Egyptians do not.
Still, the events draw people, even if few businesses outside of restaurants and hotels benefit very much.
In addition, the current non-existent visa categories that, if they existed, would allow individuals to work in year-round jobs in hotels, restaurants, landscaping and even as nannies, of course, do not work either.
They also own their fleet of high quality vehicles, and are on a first name basis with the best hotels and game lodges, and even the anthropologists and scientists with whom they arrange special private VIP visits for customers.
Gogobot announced partnerships with established online travel agencies like Priceline, Orbitz, Kayak and even Expedia to allow users to book flights and hotels from these sites without actually being directed to the sites.
He approached airlines, carmakers, hotels, drink companies, clothing labels and even a manufacturer of horse shampoo.
L.A. brass, often ditching combat boots for tasseled loafers, were common sights at properties that included hotels, telecommunications services, pharmaceutical concerns and even airlines.
That explains why even though many NFL stars get to stay in luxury hotels boasting 800-thread count Italian sheets, Pro Bowl wide receiver Steve Smith of the Philadelphia Eagles brings his own.
Even if you are not staying in one of the elite hotels, take advantage of the unbeatable Bosphorus views with a laidback hotel restaurant lunch on the water.
Even Chinese travelers are tired of all the 500-room business hotels, he has found, preferring Le Sun Chine's more intimate scale.
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And even though hoteliers complain that business is down and whisper about some hotels being on the block, when I was there in July, most in the top tier were sold out.
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