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Hilton gives Homewood Suites property owners a cheap way to update their look
GalleryHilton’s extended-stay brand Homewood Suites wanted older brands to upgrade their facilities and feature a fresher design, but that’s a difficult desire to push when individual property owners shoulder the cost. To encourage owners to go ahead with the needed upgrades, Homewood Suites launched the Take Flight initiative. Take Flight is a package of design [...]
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Legendary Paris hotel auctions off its contents prior to major renovation
DestinationsCrillon, the 100-year-old hotel that housed General Eisenhower after the Liberation of Paris, is auctioning off almost everything, from beds and curtains to 2,000 bottles of wine and doormen’s uniforms. The dressers, Baccarat coffee cups, mini bars, room service trolleys and lights fixtures from Crillon’s halls, 147 room, 44 suites are going up for sale [...]
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Qantas Airways new look: Nice-looking crew headed down the runway
TransportOn Tuesday morning Australia time, Qantas went all out to unveil the new look for its crew. Gone are the patterns done by whoever used to do them, incoming are clothing designs by Martin Grant (based in Paris but Australian-born) and shoes by Christian Louboutin (yes, with the red on the bottom). Unlike other uniform [...]
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Video: Airline seats that slide to make space during boarding
TransportAn airline seat that shifts to make boarding easier sounds like a crazy idea, but don’t be surprised to find it on your next flight. The “side-slip seat” is a concept by Molon Labe Designs, a Denver airline interior company that introduced the idea for the first time to airlines and manufacturers last week at [...]
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How Marriott practices the science of hotel room design
RoomsContrary to what skeptics like me may think, decisions about what goes into a hotel room aren’t made in a vacuum by some executive who has never stayed in an outpost of his brand’s midrange chain. At least not entirely. The decisions are the result of research. Research into what you, the traveler, want, need [...]
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Open Switzerland project has designs on rebranding the country
DestinationsSwitzerland Tourism is a savvy marketer of the country given its series of hick-farmers videos, but now a design firm is challenging the perception of the country, and enlisting creative souls to help redefine the destination. You can kiss cuckoo clocks and secret bank accounts goodbye. Base, a network of design firms with offices in [...]
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The case for flipping the airport design model
TransportIf ticketing no longer holds much significance, why does the ticketing lobby still dominate the architecture of a terminal? The idea of celebrating ticketing and check-in as the beginning of a journey is now anachronism. The arrival of a passenger to a community is the most significant moment in travel today, but airports continue to [...]
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The top 20 most colorful airlines in the world
TransportWe’re obsessed with travel branding here at Skift, and what the industry calls livery design — including color — is a big component of overall airline branding. Thus came the idea of this list of the most colorful airlines on the planet. We would like to tell you that how hard we worked to come up with this [...]
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Six designs that competed to become the new Burning Man airport
TransportEach year around 50,000 people ascend on Black Rock Desert to partake in the Burning Man festival. Not all fly directly into the pop-up Black Rock airport, the busiest airport in Nevada during that time, but those that do have been underwhelmed by their first stop in the momentary community. Bored of an airport that had [...]
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Amman’s new international terminal opens as a tribute to the culture within
TransportTravellers to Jordan’s capital Amman and the surrounding Levant, which includes Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Cyprus, may find their trips to the region get off to a more impressive start with the opening of the new terminal at Amman’s Queen Alia International Airport. Designed by Foster + Partners, the building’s distinctive structure is inspired [...]
