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Dubai’s latest flashy hotel opening looks to Hollywood for star power
DestinationsParamount Hotels & Resorts CEO Thomas van Vliet says merging Hollywood and hotels is rather like making a movie, and reveals the concept and cast behind the operator’s first big release, the US $1 billion Damac Towers by Paramount in Dubai. Like a film production, the concept behind Paramount Hotels & Resorts is the result [...]
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Are smaller hotel housekeeping carts a real trend?
RoomsBig, rolling housekeeping carts are disappearing from many hotel hallways, just like the floral polyester linens they used to carry. Hotels say they’re replacing cumbersome carts with smaller ones sometimes akin to golf caddie bags out of necessity, in addition to convenience and even appearance. Among those saying goodbye to the hall-blocking carts: The Staybridge [...]
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Vancouver museum exhibit explores social impact of well-designed hotels
DestinationsA hotel is more than just a place to lay your head down. If you don’t believe it, check out a fascinating new show at the Canada’s Vancouver Art Gallery convincingly argues that hotels are far more than just bricks and mortar. The gallery’s newest exhibition is Grand Hotel: Redesigning Modern Life, which is described [...]
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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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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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The “social” hotel of the future could look something like this
GalleryTablet Hotels and Jovoto ran a design competition, Rethink Hotels, asking designers to think up what the social hotel of the future would look like in New York. Tablet described its ideal property as “a hotel that’s a creative crossroads, where guests and locals make serendipitous connections of all kinds.” Although the grand prize went to a brilliant concept that placed a [...]
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We’re getting closer to an Apple-themed hotel: Starwood opens Aloft in Cupertino
DigitalA hotel near Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., is now using some of the iPhone and iPad maker’s home entertainment technology in its rooms. Starwood Hotels’ Aloft Hotel has put an Apple TV in all 123 of its rooms, the company said today. Of note, the hotel is located on the same block as one [...]
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Hotels in the Middle East are renovating just to stay relevant
DestinationsAs rooms supply continues to grow in key Middle Eastern cities, older properties are being forced to totally transform their product offering to keep up with their new neighbours. In 2012, 68 new hotels comprising 15,735 rooms opened across the Middle East and Africa, according to latest statistics released by STR Global. Top-end hotels again [...]
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DFW Airport dabbles in hotel development with $92 million commercial plaza
TransportSouthgate won’t look much like an airport venture — more like a suburban project with a hotel, offices and restaurants. But it will represent a new undertaking for Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, which is expanding in a non-airport kind of way. In 2007, airport planners envisioned a mixed-use commercial development just outside the south entrance, [...]
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What Twitter users think of American Airlines’ new logo and livery
TransportEveryone’s a critic, but at least on Twitter the criticism is brief. Here’s how users of the social network are responding to American Airlines’ announcement and images of its new logo and livery design, which Skift broke earlier this morning. [View the story "American Airlines' new designs" on Storify] American Airlines’ new designs American Airlines [...]
