Fairmont Heritage Place, the private residence club offering from Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, today announced that it has assumed management of two North American-based private residence clubs formerly operated by Storied Places®, an Intrawest company. Joining Fairmont Heritage Place’s exclusive collection are the Fairmont Heritage Place at Nature’s Door, Whistler and Fairmont Heritage Place Inspiration, [...]

Oman International Trade & Exhibitions, leading organizer of exhibitions, conferences and events today announced its 3rd property and real estate exhibition, the International Property Exhibition (IPE) from the 15th to 17th April, 2008. Scheduled to be held at the Oman International Exhibition Centre, this three day event will showcase a full spectrum of services in [...]

An international hotel giant plans to open a $100 million, 290-room hotel in Auckland’s CBD by the middle of 2010.
Paul Richardson, vice-president of Accor for New Zealand and Fiji, said yesterday a new five-star Pullman hotel would be built near the city’s waterfront.
The hotel will be aimed at the corporate and meetings market and is [...]

A three-alarm fire at a three-story Santa Rosa condo complex began when a woman left bacon to cook in her microwave while she went to the store, fire officials said.
The fire began around 5:30 p.m. Saturday at a three-story condominium complex in the 1300 block of Townview Avenue.
Rhonda Randall left bacon cooking in her bottom-floor [...]

A cluster of signs at Chandler Boulevard and 50th Street is promoting Indigo, Ahwatukee Foothills’ newest condominium community.
The 108-unit complex under construction just south of 50th Street and Frye Road is tucked into 9½ acres ringed by Horizon Learning Center to the south, St. Benedict Catholic Church and St. John Bosco school to the west [...]

Construction of the £20 million Fitzwilliam Hotel in Belfast got under way today.
The hotel is sited in Great Victoria Street, next door to the historic Grand Opera House, and is the latest in a string being built to meet demand from visitors to what the Lonely Planet guide calls “a must-see city”.
Planned as a five-star [...]

Leona Helmsley, the self-styled hotel queen, whose prison term for income tax evasion and fraud was greeted with uncommon approval by a public who regarded her as a 1980s symbol of arrogance and greed, died Monday at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn. She was 87.
The cause of death was heart failure, said her [...]

Travellers heading to Belize this fall can now take advantage of four all-inclusive packages introduced at The Inn at Robert’s Grove as part of its 10th anniversary celebrations.
Available through Dec. 15, they include round-trip local air fare from Belize International Airport to Placencia airstrip, local ground transfer from Placencia to the resort, daily breakfast buffet, [...]

Questions surrounding a Telemundo newscaster’s relationship with the Los Angeles mayor are focusing on the woman’s Studio City condominium, KNBC reported.
Apparently, the man who sold a condominium to newscaster Mirthala Salinas was also a campaign contributor to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, according to KNBC.
The condo was purchased from Steve Bullock, who donated $1,000 to [...]

Would you like a shiatsu massage with your new condo? How about a bone-density test?
Arizona’s Canyon Ranch, regarded as the most glittering brand in the $10 billion spa industry, has branched into real estate, and on Wednesday will roll out a marketing campaign for the 67-story condo-hotel at Huron and Rush Streets that will bear [...]

The grungy hotel room was reeking of smoke. The bathtub was rusty. The bedspread and furnishings were dingy relics. But I couldn’t leave. I’d already paid $155 in an online travel auction for the Queen Mary Hotel room — $91 for the room, $20 commission, $24 in taxes and $20 to upgrade to a room [...]

Cleanup crews began assembling Friday at a northern Wisconsin resort to try to salvage any remnants of the business demolished by one of at least five tornadoes that swept across the state.
The tornadoes touched down mainly across central and northeast Wisconsin overnight Thursday.
The National Weather Service believes at least one tornado touched down for an [...]