Shanghai: Mansion Hotel
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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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The Castle at the Lake: Schloss Velden
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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.
1893: Making The Waldorf
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The year 1893 was a conspicuous and a strange one in American history. A certain holiday mood merged with a general feeling of gloom that was almost akin to despair.
Gunther Kiem (1949-2007)
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Visionary, pioneer and ground-breaking figure - Publisher of Rolling Pin
Forte, Charles †
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Forte started his career as the owner of a London milk bar and went on to create a multi-billion pound worldwide chain of hotels and restaurants. Among the prestigious hotels owned by the company he founded is the Balmoral in Princes Street.
Grand Hotel Sopot (Poland) back
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Historic Hotel on Poland’s Baltic Coast Takes on New Five-Star Identity
2006 at Famous Hotels
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From Putin at the Ritz (Madrid) to Sweeney drawing for The Oriental and Chirac at the Imperial in Vienna, the year 2006 brought us a book launch in Budapest, (Grand Hotel Royal), a G8 meeting at the Grand Hotel Europe in St Petersburg, Bill Clinton in India and ....
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Holtmann, Franka
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Franka Holtmann was the first ever female GM to run the distinguished Hotel de Crillon on Paris' Place de la Concorde. Now she ist the first woman to manage Le Meurice.
Montreux: Hotel National
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It is still listed as a "Hotel lost in History" on famoushotels.org: The Hotel National (1875), Montreux. The lights went out 20 years ago when the hotel owners decided to close it down, and there is still no power. Three modern apartment blocks will finance the grand hotel's revival. Hopefully!
Kienberger Family
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The Kienberger Family and Hotel Waldhaus, Sils Maria. It was opened on June 15, 1908 by Josef Giger (1847–1921) and his wife Amalie who had previously managed large hotels in Bad Ragaz, in Russia, in Italy and finally in St. Moritz.
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