Although it was built in the 1970s, the recently renovated Vivanta President hotel in South Mumbai, attracts a younger, hipper business traveller with mod designer touches.
Mr. Gordon formed Rubicon in 2011 after stepping down from his post as president of Morgans Hotel Group Co.
Steve Pinetti, senior vice president of the hotel group, explained how sound environmental practices are now much more commonplace than when Kimpton began its sustainability program.
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Berkley, who has served in the state Assembly and on the state board of regents, is a former vice president at the Sands Hotel.
"The desires of someone staying in and ordering room service may vary from a person who is looking for the complete dining experience, " said hotel vice president Jennifer Rutkowski.
"Many of the guests are small business entrepreneurs or tech-y types who leave early in the morning in suits and return to explore Brooklyn in the late afternoon, " said Dev Dugal, Vice President at Globiwest, the hotel's management company.
In 2003 Jack Straw, Britain's foreign secretary, had an informal meeting in his hotel suite with the president of Iran, a country with which Britain had no diplomatic ties.
Another memory from the 1977 mayoral race had the candidate and me pacing the hall outside a Midtown hotel suite where Vice President Walter Mondale, who was scheduled to campaign with Mr. Koch, had apparently overslept, or decided to sleep in. (I'd been summoned to take the Vice President's luggage back to the airport and Air Force Two.) Whatever it was, Koch took the mix-up stoically.
At the meeting, which took place at the New York Palace Hotel, where the Mexican President was staying, Angelopoulos agreed to sponsor him.
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Nobody wants "to see small businesses take a hit and be hurt by this incident, " said Jeffrey Saunders, president and managing partner of the Lenox Hotel, which on late Tuesday night was welcoming its first guests in over a week.
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Jim McNickle, president of the Manhattan Plaza Tenants Association, said the hotel has generally been sensitive to the earlier complaints and even at one point offered residents free dinner vouchers.
Founder and President Robert Bigelow, who made his fortune in the hotel industry before getting into the space business in 1999, framed the gambit as an out-of-this-world real estate venture.
Some congressional hearings were postponed, but the House of Representatives managed to approve legislation to prevent a government shutdown on March 27 and President Barack Obama had dinner with GOP senators at a hotel Wednesday night.
C. offers modest pickings when it comes to luxury digs, but Capella Hotel Group (run by former Ritz-Carlton President, Horst Schulze) aims to change that.
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General Pace's address to the 350-plus attendees at this elegant black-tie dinner held at the Mayflower Hotel was preceded by a welcome from Harry Stonecipher, President and CEO of the Boeing Company, who served as the Dinner's Chairman.
It was, in fact, just that -- Hotel Africa -- built in 1979 when Liberia's president, William Tolbert, had his turn as chairman of the Organization of African Unity.
The summit, held at a wedding-cake hotel on the Baltic coast, brought a surprise offer from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.
At the Mark Hotel on New York's Upper East Side, developer Izak Senbahar, president of Alexico Group, likes to use art to add impact.
When planning for the decks was still in early stages, someone showed Tim Mapes, Delta's senior vice president for marketing, photos of a poolside installation orchestrated by Architectural Digest at the Raleigh Hotel during Art Basel in Miami.
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This is the trust's third W hotel and fourth with a Starwood brand, said James L. Francis, its president and chief executive officer.
The president of Uefa has hit out at "bandits and crooks" for the escalation of Ukrainian hotel prices ahead of the Euro 2012 football championships.
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"In the late 1980s, Hilton was among the first luxury hotel brands to utilize the service, " says Mike Bare, co-owner and president of Bare International and one of the original founders of the MSPA. Three decades later, it's common practice among hotel brands around the world. (Proof: LRA recently opened a satellite office in busy Singapore.) And soon enough, its taciturn nature may be over.
David Gabri, president and CEO of Associated Luxury Hotels International (ALHI) headquartered in Orlando, Florida, has been handling hotel buyouts for almost 30 years.
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