During the summer of 2012, hotel occupation rates increased 8.9% compared to figures for 2011.

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But over the summer, relations between the hotel and residents were also strained.

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For example, the Wythe Hotel, which opened last summer in a former barrel factory in Williamsburg, offers a rawer industrial aesthetic and a burgeoning social calendar.

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The renovation of the hotel, which currently has about 20 rooms, is due to start in the summer.

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The Moscow hotel industry has also had a good summer, helped by the city's 850th anniversary celebrations in September, which drew at least 1m Russian and foreign visitors.

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The Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts will open a Corbu spa this summer.

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Now, he says, the hotel is fully booked with Israeli families for the rest of the summer and into the fall, during the Jewish holidays.

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New York's venerable Le Cirque, owned by the Maccioni family, which has eight restaurants in New York, Las Vegas, Dominican Republic and New Delhi, did a pop-up late last summer, produced by Mr. Philips, in a hotel on the city's Lower East Side.

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On a sunny afternoon last summer, Armani visited the half-constructed suites and roof-terrace spa of his hotel in Milan, which opened in November.

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To find a chef for the hotel's Italian-themed Il Lago restaurant, a Four Seasons manager spent the summer traveling throughout Italy, sampling the gastronomic delights of various Michelin-starred chefs--an enviable task indeed.

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