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Path of History — Walls can talk!
This autumn: Jamaica — Half Moon Treasury — the new book
This autumn: Paris — Hotel Prince de Galles — the new book
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The Metropole in Hanoi confronted us with the most challenging project. The material was scattered all over the world, from London to Paris, from Washington to Aix-en-Provence. But not at the hotel left alone in Vietnam itself.
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The Hotel Bristol in Vienna is at the crossroads of the most important thoroughfares of the Austrian capital as well as of events of today and history. The TV documentary is narrated by Andreas Augustin (we appologygse - in German only), wonderfully supported by a group of Austrian celebrities as well as the hotel's staff, who joyfully talk about their jobs, their lives and their encounters with famous guests.
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For almost three decades Elisabeth Guertler managed the legendary Austrian Sacher hotel empire, the Viennese Opera Ball and the Lipizzan Horses at the Spanish Riding School. Remember: she had kissed the Viennese temple of hospitality, the Hotel Sacher, out of its sleeping beauty doze ...
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Andreas Augustin’s personal blog about his journeys, introducing current and future projects.
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The Most Famous Hotels in the World display splendid exhibitions, based on meticulous historic research. Exhibitions are the result of our research, displaying carefully chosen excerpts of our books. You see: Walls can talk.
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Since 1986, we have listed over 450 hotels, numerous individual hotels were researched, their history recorded, and successful books published. Here is what some of our partners have to say about our work.
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Rarely hotels have professionally organised archives. Before we can start our research work, we have to build an archive. 10 essential considerations for hoteliers.
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We contribute articles to global press services, international magazines and newspapers. They are extracts of our books or independent travel articles.
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Open for publishers and on-line researchers we are determined to help you with all your queries. We do hold a library featuring almost every hotel of note on earth. We have original files, digital images, books and documents … more
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The Most Famous Hotels in the World bestows the KEEPER OF THE ARCHIVES award to those individuals who deserve special recognition for their preservation and provision of archived material of hotel and travel related history.