Thinking of having holiday in Europe? make sure to put Paris on your top lists of places to visit. If you visit paris you will find a lot of collections of fine art, like the ones you will find at the Musee d’Orsay’s. Visiting the Musee d’Orsay’s magnificent but huge collection of paintings, sculptures and [...]

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 [...]

Joey Nicotera’s fascination with multicolored light bulbs bordered on obsession when he was a teenager.
He framed posters in lights and decorated his own Christmas tree. When he couldn’t find a color bulb he wanted, he got paint cans from the basement and made some himself, bathing his second-story bedroom in an eerie glow.
Joey is now [...]

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 [...]

As you make your summer travel plans, know it’s getting tougher to get a good deal on a hotel room. Leisure travel is up. So is business travel. And Consumer Reports found there are other reasons why great room rates are hard to come by. But with a little know-how, you can still get a [...]

Aconex has been selected to provide its web-based project collaboration service to the new beachfront Marriott Renaissance Hotel development in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Aconex will allow project participants to manage all their project information online – saving time, cutting administrative costs and reducing risk.
The 323-room Renaissance Bahrain Amwaj Islands Hotel is being constructed on a [...]

The Alexandria City Council approved construction of a luxury hotel on upper King Street near the Metro station yesterday, fresh evidence of Old Town Alexandria’s transformation into an upscale tourist mecca.
The new complex, which will include a top-drawer restaurant, coffee-wine bar and day spa, will be built on a site previously approved for a condominium [...]

In its endeavor to continually help its community, the Jordan Valley Marriott Resort & Spa employs more than 30% of its employees from the local village of Sweimeh, located near the Resort. Several young women from Sweimeh have chosen to work for the resort and have excelled in their different jobs.
One of these young [...]

After months of speculation, Larry Silverstein has finally decided to convert 99 Church into a hotel-condo. The Real Deal has the scoop late this afternoon. Silverstein will build a 60-story mega-hotel-condo, with the first 20 floors turning into a ritzy hotel and the rest of the tower going residential.
Lauren Elkies quotes Lisa Silverstein, Larry’s daughter [...]

A five-star hotel under the franchised Marriott Hotels brand could soon be established in Kingston, George-town, in direct competition with the 250-room Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort and the well-established Le Meridien Pegasus.
This newspaper understands that a consortium of private developers, which includes foreign investors, has expressed interest and has begun groundwork for the construction [...]

Mr. Bert Figearo, Director and member of the Board of Asia Pacific Commercial Real Estate Guides and AsiaCRE.com remarks on the build up to this inaugural event as planning kicks in to full swing following the completed selection of the esteemed jury and highly regarded Key Note speaker. “I especially enjoy attending the awards ceremonies [...]

Across Southwest Florida, real estate agents are reporting sales, showing activity and buyer interest that suggests the region could be emerging from its real estate doldrums.
In January, Michael Saunders & Co.’s call center received 3,375 serious inquiries, “which matches almost exactly the call activity at the height of the boom,” said spokesman Tom Heatherman.
In January [...]