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  • Work starts on creation of new Dubai island Work starts on creation of new Dubai island

    Work began on Monday on the development of a man-made island in Dubai, 500 metres directly opposite the Jumeirah Beach Residence complex. To be known as Bluewaters Island, the new development will house five star hotels and resorts, al fresco dining and entertainment zones, and residential apartments and villas. The focal point of the island city, which will cost $1.6 billion, will be a 688 ...

  • Chinese Greenland and Melia open the first Greenland hotel in Europe.

    The hotel has been adapted to the needs of demanding Chinese travellers and with the standards of a modern international hotel.Both companies continue to make progress in a partnership which will see the growth of ...

  • Asia Very Very Competitive for OTAs.

    ) told analysts that "the absolute economics in terms of the pricing of hotels and the competition makes it potentially more expensive" than other key global markets. But the pay off is that Asia Pacific markets are growing fast, more than compensating for the high costs borne by its two major regional ...

  • Hidden Fees Theft in Plain Sight

    With the summer travel season a couple of weeks away the menace of hidden fees gets more attention in the press leading to the somewhat misleading notion that the add-ons are merely a summer ...

  • IHG loses big and pays compensation to Chinese owners.

    Surging InterContinental Hotels Group in China has suffered a big loss for the first time; on March 22, the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission Shanghai Branch made a final outcome of the InterContinental Shanghai Puxi arbitration.It states that: Intercontinental Group is to determine the compensation for the owner before InterContinental Shanghai Puxi developers ...


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An Ideal Husband [DVD]

An Ideal Husband [DVD]

"An Ideal Husband" is an amusing comedy of manners that takes a sharp look at love, marriage, honesty and public scandal. The film, adapted from the play by Oscar Wilde and directed by Oliver Parker (who also adapted and directed Shakespeare's "Othello" in 1995), successfully alternates between a light, witty touch, and a darker, more somber exploration of public humiliation and the price of ... ...

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  • Emirates Airlines introduces shisha lounges up in the sky.

    Emirates has started to trial new shisha lounges aboard its A380 fleet.Last week the airline revealed that the lounges would be available to business and first class passengers on several of its long-haul routes flown using ...

  • MetroNational releases more details of mixed-use Gateway Memorial City project

    Mixed-use retail and office development Gateway Memorial City is nearing completion. Click through for more photos and renderings. Houston-based MetroNational Corp. released more details about its newest Memorial City retail and office project that fronts Interstate 10. The project, called Gateway Memorial City, will be a mixed-use, master-planned development, totaling about 90,000 square ...

  • J.C. Penney shareholders re-elect board of directors

    J.C. Penney re-elected its board of directors. J.C. Penney Co. Inc. shareholders officially re-elected the company's board of directors for another year, the company said Monday. The votes, which stockholders cast at the May 17 annual meeting, largely were in favor of the 10 returning board members. William Ackman, Colleen Barrett, Thomas Engibous, Kent Foster, Geraldine Laybourne, Leonard ...

  • Pizza pub to take over Reds Patio Grill in Plano

    Taverna Rossa is scheduled to open in early July in Plano. The pizza pub is designed to be a sister location of McKinney's Cadillac Pizza. The owners of Cadillac Pizza in historic downtown McKinney are in the middle of bringing their pizza concept to Plano. "Taverna Rossa is definitely an extension of Cadillac Pizza," said Preston Lancaster, founder of {33} Restaurant Group. "But ...

  • Food Networks Great Food Truck Race makes noise in Portland

    The horns. They were deafening. They started blaring while I was waiting in line at a food cart at Pioneer Courthouse Square today. A bunch of food trucks Id never seen began honking their horns. Whats that about? I asked Shelly Sorenson, purveyor of one of Portlands oldest food carts, Honkin Huge Burritos. (The city of Portland honored Shelly last summer for her carts longevity. We also ...

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