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Hotels thrive on the names of the illustrious guests who’ve graced the premises in years gone by. The guest lists of top hotels often read like a who’s who of modern history, invariably containing infamous names as well as famous ones. And they don’t come much more infamous than Adolf Hitler.
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This is not one of the Most Famous Hotels in the World, but certainly one of the most famous locations. The Mansion Hotel in Shanghai opens:
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Horst Schulze, the man who founded a hotel management group to avoid retirement, and his first General Manager of Schloss Velden: Henning Reichel (right) at the opening ceremony. Reichel left eight months later.
Photograph: Martin Rauchenwald
It is always a great moment when one of the sleeping beauties, dormant Select Members of The Most Famous Hotels in the World, wake up again. On Monday, 28 June, Schloss (Castle) Velden in Austria was reopened by one of the last true hoteliers in the world.
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Designer Pierre-Yves Rochon marks the recent development of various Select Members of The Most Famous Hotels in the World. He has recently completed the interior design of the Hotel Sacher Wien. Soon we will find his fingerprints on the ambitious project concerning an icon of London hospitality. The Savoy will close from end of this year until 2009. The Savoy is a Select Member of The Most Famous Hotels in the World® (and one of the most successful books of our publishing program).
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