Still, the hotel market in Latin America and Asia is a lot more fragmented than it is in North America, where chains have more influence, so the Utell expansion is a welcome development for Priceline.

拉丁美洲和亚洲地区的酒店市场环境依然要比北美洲地区的分散得多，因为连锁酒店在北美拥有更大的影响力。

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A television reporter shoots a newscast in a hotel parking lot near Morehead City, North Carolina, as Hurricane Irene comes ashore August 27.

8月27日，艾琳娜登陆后，一个电视台记者在莫尔黑德市一个旅馆边的停产场中拍摄新闻。

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In the grounds of Falk?ping's Hotel Andrum, two hours north-east of Gothenburg, is a large oak with a treehouse in its twisting branches.

法尔雪平的Andrum旅馆在哥德堡东北两小时车程的地方，“七重天”树屋建在一棵巨大的橡树上，树屋内部像是一个童话世界。

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As Scouts leaders gathered at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport Marriott North hotel in Irving on Monday, members of the Scouts' Religious Relationships Task Force, who don't have a vote on the board decision, met for about two hours with Mr. Brock, as well as with national officials Wayne Perry and Tico Perez.

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While terrorism, war and political unrest have hammered the travel and leisure industry, they sure haven't stopped big North American hotel operators from developing properties abroad, even in the hot spots.

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When decent profits were being made in one part of a corporate empire, say, just as an example, Latin American telephone systems, then those profits were used internally to fund the purchase of North American hotel chains.

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