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Stephen has reopened the first legendary Grand Hotel of modern China, the People’s Grand Hotel Xian in Shaanxi Province
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The launch of the book 'I Had Tea at the Nellie — The Mount Nelson Treasury' brings us together again. Xavier Lablaude runs one of the legendary flagships of the Belmond Group, the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, or as it is known around the world of luxury travelers, "the Nellie".
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The Lygon Arms in Broadway looks exactly how you’d expect an old Cotswold inn to appear. Stone fireplaces, heavy wooden doors, uneven flagstones, ...
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Procul Harum — Grand Hotel — Puttin' on The Ritz, Hotel California, … There are plenty of songs about hotels. The most famous ones are listed here:
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John F Kennedy announced his candidacy for Congress, Longfellow and Jacques Offenbach were inspired, Ho Chi Minh and Malcolm X were employed. And Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol while a guest there.
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The first suite named after a former bellboy. Billy Garioch finds his name on room 502 at Edinburgh's "Caley".
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Few people know that in 1908 the catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852 - 1926) imagined a skyscraper for New York City.
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"Dear Lord and Lady Provost..." — At the occasion of the launch of the book The Caledonian Edinburgh, Andreas Augustin held this speech in 2004
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A short synopsis of Hilton's training programs in 1956 and Confessions of a London Hilton Trainee (1963)
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Receiving an important guest at European hotels in the 1920s involved a whole army of staff. If the occasion requires it, this hasn't changed at some hotels.
The Bayerischer Hof was opened in 1841 - on the wishes of King Ludwig I, who wanted a comfortable place for his guests to stay. The Bayerischer Hof...Read More
Johannes Baur, born in Austria in 1795, was a visionary entrepreneur who profoundly shaped Zurich’s hospitality industry. In 1837, at the age...Read More
The historic building (top, slide to the right): The "new" Raffles main building in 1899. It opened on 18 November 1899, featuring the all new...Read More
Since decades “The Oriental”, as it is affectionately known by travellers from all over the globe, leads the lists of most...Read More
