Castro has entered into dozens of joint ventures with Canadian and European hotel groups.
And big hotel groups such as Four Seasons are flirting with variations of this formula.
Local hostility to hotel groups makes it harder for governments to work at developing tourism.
Local hotel groups have trouble filling the gap, because they cannot get ready access to capital.
Under new proposals, banking and finance, telecommunications companies such as BT, large hotel groups and utility companies would have to pay.
Hotel groups also reward members with benefits such as free Internet access and reduced parking fees, as well as discounts on food and beverage.
In fact, 23 global hotel groups have recently come together to develop a protocol for measuring and reporting the carbon footprint of hotel stays and corporate meetings.
Big hotel groups are most able to flex their muscles this way, especially in America where the majority of hotel rooms are booked via chains.
But in Europe smaller hotel groups and independent operators still dominate.
Hotel groups, as a result, run their own international marketing campaigns.
The prince's Kingdom Holding Company, whose shares are traded on the Saudi stock exchange, owns stakes in hotel groups including Four Seasons and Fairmont Raffles and is a part-owner of the Savoy Hotel in London.
While the average rate found on online travel portal was almost 22% cheaper than that available at hotel chain websites over January-March 2011, these discounts will decrease for major hotel groups as the travel industry improves.
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Twenty, 30 minutes past that, one of the senior advisers of the hotel mentioned we would be escorted to the back of the hotel, put into groups of 10 people and told to run to the neighboring cinema hall, where we would be safe.
According to Russ Mitchell, director of sales and marketing, there has been a rise of interest in the last year from groups and planners wanting to brand the hotel.
The hotel has its own wildlife biologist and photographer, Tenley Thompson, who created the programme and trained a team of naturalists to take small groups (with at least one guide for every five hotel guests) on customised wildlife safari tours through Bridger Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park and the National Elk Refuge.
The proof that hotel buyouts have really spread to the mainstream though, is that wedding groups have jumped on the bandwagon.
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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The hotel sits directly above the Bonaventure metro station and underground city, making it popular with conference groups.
Officials believe an argument that began at a hotel valet area prompted the attack but were still investigating what, if any, relationship the two groups had prior to the altercation.
The superstars brought the early black-and-gold-labelled version of the album back to the hotel, where the owner was playing cards with members of another of the decade's big groups, Freddie and the Dreamers.
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