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Victor J (Trader Vic) Bergeron was an irascible, one-legged genius, who founded a multimillion-dollar food and drink empire called Trader Vic’s. While everybody believed his restaurants originated in Polynesia, Victor was actually born in San Francisco. He had not lost his left leg to a shark, but amputated when he was six to prevent his death from tuberculosis of the knee.
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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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America — Hotel Mumbai - the new movie by Dev Patel +++ The Roosevelt New Orleans Hotel (1893) is Encouraging Return of Stolen Items +++ The Indian Americans constitute less than one percent of Americas population and incredibly own about half the 50,000 hotels in the United States +++++
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Time flies, only my father takes slow boats and sends letters via surface postal services. Yesterday an envelope arrived containing photographs, and an interview, typed on a typewriter! After the MS Serendipity has safely moored at the jetty of Colombo’s harbour, he has met the chairman of the Galle Face Hotel, Sanjeev Gardiner
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The M.S. Serendipity has anchored at Colombo. For weeks we were accompanied by playful pods of dolphins, watched over a cup of tea at breakfast under the sunshade of our deck. Here we are on the Island of (Ceylon) Sri Lanka, the centre of spiritual Asia of bygone times and a hub of intellectual Sri Lanka of today.
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Drama King Adrian Mourby landed at Venice. Again. This time he takes us to the Moon. Hotel Luna began life in the twelfth century as the Osteria della Luna. It was a simple house near the Grand Canal that provided board and lodging for knights heading east to the Crusades.
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Minutes of the December 2018 Jury Meeting London
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It is a conversation between American writer and globe trotter Mark Twain and a fellow traveller on a train to Maryborough, a city and a suburb in the Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia. 1895, November
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One never thinks that hotels have Christmas trees, too. But in fact there is a real competition of who has the largest and shiniest. Fine in countries of fur trees. But it could prove really difficult a 110 years ago, in Africa, for example ...
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Today, let me lean back and conjure up 28 November 1986. Since early morning, a signboard at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore displayed: LAUNCH OF THE BOOK "RAFFLES"
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This is a weekend of remembrance and appreciation; it is “Armistice”. 100 years ago, World War I, the so-called Great War, ended on this date. The unthinkable war between European nations – Germany and Austria with its allies against France, England, Russia and the rest of the world – was over.
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All that matters in hospitality are people. We meet them, need them, interact with them. We must not take it for granted that they serve us. They could merely do their jobs, but their smile can make our day, their effort by going the proverbial extra mile can change our life. I have met a remarkable team at Jamaica's Half Moon.
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