Though the picturesque town of Banff and surrounding Banff National Park beckon with world-class skiing, mineral hot springs and countless other nature activities, it's tempting to stay put in the castle, so numerous and luxurious are its offerings.

FORBES: Banff Springs Eternal

Logic dictated looking at Macau tourism data, but the existing hotels in Macau were like skid row compared to the ultra luxurious Venetian, so the existing data would identify the wrong customers.

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For the first time in the airline's history, business class saw higher percentages of seats filled than coach, said Singapore spokesman James Boyd, so the airline switched to a luxurious all-business-class configuration, with 100 lie-flat beds on a plane big enough to carry more than 300 passengers.

WSJ: The World's Longest Flight, in Coach

Wilde reveals the human complexity and suffering behind the luxurious surfaces that he summoned so easily in rolling Irish prose.

NEWYORKER: Deceptive Picture

Eastern Star Cruises offer luxurious cruises on a private yacht - so you can enjoy the view in style.

BBC: Eastern Star Cruises

"Eating shark's fin feels luxurious but I think fining is a cruel process so I think it's good that we find alternatives, " says 16-year-old Richard Loo.

BBC: Hong Kong shark fin trade declines

He liked Paris so much that he stayed there -- "with its drizzle, as cool, grey and luxurious as chinchilla, " he writes in the autobiographical novel "The Farewell Symphony" -- beyond the year that he had planned.

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