Luxe details include in-room bath products by La Prairie (Hotel Bel-Air is the only U.S. hotel to carry the Swiss brand specializing in anti-aging) and oversized baths with flat-screen TVs.
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When this recession-warning gauge passes the threshold probability of 50%, the U.S. hotel industry enters a recession.
Like most U.S. hotel companies, Marriott is relying on local developers rather than investing its own funds in Africa.
Mr. Gellein said that the U.S. hotel industry likely still has at least two more years left of improvements before the next downturn.
Franchising, an approach central to the U.S. hotel industry and Cendant's way in China as well (see " The Bed Business"), is for another day, in Liang's view.
To be sure, those figures still pale next to the entire U.S. hotel industry, which according to research firm STR sold 1 billion nights alone between January and November 2012.
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Over the long term the SARS outbreak will add friction to the cost of doing business in Asia, much as impromptu shoe checks, cargo inspections and travel jitters followed Sept. 11 in the U.S. Hotel business in Asia fell 25% from February to March.
It is unclear if there were any U.S. troops at the hotel in connection with the meeting, a U.S. military official told CNN.
The highlight has long been Montagna, maybe the best fine dining restaurant at any U.S. ski hotel.
The Rainbow Hotel, where U.N. personnel once lived, was a burned out shell.
After spending the night in a hotel on the U.S. side of the border, the Maldonados arrived home Friday afternoon to be reunited with their seven children, who range in age from 6 to 25.
By comparison, the U.S. luxury-hotel market is expected to add only 795 rooms this year for a 0.6% growth rate.
Later they traveled to a hotel for interviews with U.S. officials.
Each day the newspaper is delivered to 1 million hotel rooms in the U.S. For a customer at a trade show, hundreds of issues were wrapped with "belly bands" (a branded ribbon of paper encircling each newspaper).
Anyone with a fever or exhibiting flu-like symptoms has been placed in quarantine, usually in a hospital, while anyone whose seat on a plane was close to a person with such symptoms has been sequestered in hotel rooms, the U.S. State Department has said.
Ctrip's founders' answer: Home Inns, a Chinese-style economy hotel harking back to the U.S.' Howard Johnsons and Holiday Inns of the 1950s.
The U Castellu Guesthouse, a cosy boutique hotel with five modern rooms artfully decorated with quirky touches, encapsulates the laid back beauty of Corsica.
Priceline has a strong foothold in the high-margin hotel bookings segment outside the U.S., facilitated by the acquisition of Bookings.com (for European markets) and Agoda.com (for Asian markets).
On a recent afternoon in the nation's capital, dozens of business and government executives from across the U.S. huddled in a hotel conference room to swap ideas on energy efficiency.
The Gideons' hotel Bible project began in the U.S. in 1908 and has spread to 194 countries around the world.
Amid the sluggish and competitor U.S. travel market, overseas hotel bookings have contributed to the steep rise of Expedia and Priceline in the recent years.
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According to the Mystery Shopping Providers Association (MSPA) there are some 30, 000 of them in the U.S., hired by luxury hotel brands to check-in anonymously and judge mercilessly.
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Mokdad met representatives of the U.N. mission staying at the hotel and said later that they were unscathed in the blast, and expressed his government's pride that not a single member of the U.N. mission has been harmed since the start of their mandate in late April.
Among these were: an entrepreneur who had just sold her business for an eight-figure sum, the managing director of an investment bank, a U.S. manager of an international hotel chain, a publishing executive, the owner of a catering firm, and a specialist on military affairs in the Middle East who works at the UN.
Another rocket-propelled grenade whistled past the hotel and other rockets exploded near the U.N. compound, the Iraqi Interior Ministry and an abandoned police station.
He paid for Johns Hopkins U. working as a busboy at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, teaching Hebrew School part-time and checking IDs outside a gym.
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Ultimately, Seidman wants Oyster to become a very big business known in the U.S. and around the world for its hotel expertise.
So a U.S. companies, say like the Decatur hotel chain, which is the largest hotel chain in Louisiana, they run many of the downtown hotels.
The company will now offer discounts ranging from 10% to 30%, at more than 2, 000 hotels in the U.S., Canada and Europe, off hotel desktop rates on its mobile application.
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In addition to the Citigroup shares, Kingdom Holding's assets include the Prince's stakes in the Fairmont and Four Seasons hotel management companies and more than a dozen U.S. and Saudi stocks--household names such as News Corp.
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