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.
Some 1, 168 new hotel rooms are under construction and soon will be added to the region's supply of about 43, 000.
Nearby in the Sathorn district, the super-chic, 407-room W Bangkok hotel opened its doors in December 2012 (parts of the hotel are still under construction).
Most immigrants are relatively unskilled, and many are employed in menial jobs in construction, hotel and catering, and light industries such as clothing manufacture.
Eden Rock , arguably the island's premier boutique hotel, recently wrapped up construction on five villas, all beachside overlooking St-Jean Bay, and all for fractional sale--you can "buy" four to five weeks a year for a period of 75 years.
Others are active in hotel, road and other big construction, notably in Botswana and South Africa.
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Their latest project is a 30-story hotel that's currently under construction in midtown Manhattan.
During the retrofitting of the facility, 50-75 workers assisted on construction, helping the hotel and restaurant industries in Mexico, MO.
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Le Labo founder Fabrice Penot and his partner visited the hotel to begin research and development when construction was still under way.
Though neither had any experience as hoteliers or philanthropists, they bought the land and began construction on a 60-room hotel, cultural center and library.
The unusual condo apartment combines portions of the century-old Beaux-Arts hotel with a new loft-like rooftop construction with skylights and an angled wall of glass.
Here forest-firefighters, construction laborers and Bozeman's hotel workers live.
When the 44-year-old businessman from Hong Kong visited Kigali in 2008 for his construction and real-estate business, every hotel was sold out.
The north Strip is also home to the Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent completed when the construction workers were dismissed, and the Sahara hotel-casino, which went dark in 2011, and only recently began renovations.
We stopped by the original hotel in question, and, indeed, it was still under construction.
To get the set onto the hotel's roof, the producers used a 300-foot construction crane.
One57, a 90-story tower in midtown Manhattan that is currently under construction, will sit on top of a Park Hyatt hotel.
Along with E-L Financial, the other newcomers were chemicals group Methanex at No. 1978, construction company SNC-Lavalin Group at No. 1791 and hotel and restaurateur Tim Hortons at No. 1931.
Along with E-L Financial, the other newcomers were chemicals group Methanex (nasdaq: MEOH - news - people ) at No. 1978, construction company SNC-Lavalin Group at No. 1791 and hotel and restaurateur Tim Hortons (nyse: THI - news - people ) at No. 1931.
Mexico City advertising executives Baker and Ruz brought cinematographers' eyes to Xcanatun, taking it from dilapidated to dazzling. (He kept his day job, while she manages the hotel.) The main buildings date from 1790 and 1850, and the new construction blends seamlessly.
The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.
The community's history of blocking construction goes back to 1974, when environmentalists stopped a plan to build a hotel and convention center.
Construction on 260, 000 square meters of office, commercial, residential and hotel space is to start in 2001 and be completed in two phases by 2007.
In about two years, Park Hyatt plans to open a new hotel a few blocks away in the lower floors of a luxury condo building that is under construction by Extell Development Co.
But once they are over the construction bubble will burst, and the city could well be left with thousands of surplus hotel rooms.
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