Richard Branson will be engaged in hotel business

The British businessman Richard Branson, whose Virgin airline carries tourists on all globe (and will soon work and behind its limits), expands sphere of action in the travel market. Now the billionaire intends to be engaged in hotel business.

Luxury Hotels by Virgin

Branson & Partners intends to open a network of expensive Virgin Hotels in the main US cities, such as: New York, Miami, San Francisco and Los Angeles. For this enterprise within three years it will be enclosed half-billion dollars.

As experts believe, Sir Branson has correctly timed intrusion on the luxury hotels market. In comparison with last year the revenue of hotels in the USA has increased, and in process of economic revival, demand for comfortable and luxury rest will grow only.

Richard Branson at Bellagio (Las Vegas)

Unforgettable Marriage Night In Underwater Hotel On Maldives

Today, everyone tries to celebrate day of the matrimony in an especial way so that the great day for ever was stamped in the heart.

Marriage Night on Maldives

Conrad Maldives Rangali Island Hotel located on Maldives, offers new service: a newly-married couple can not only celebrate event under water, but also spend the first wedded night on depth of 5 metres.

The Conrad Maldives Hotel on Rangali Island

The given wedding ceremony have menu: a celebratory supper, various spa-procedures, and, certainly, wedded night under water in hotel with glass walls. Here you can admire coral reeves of extraordinary beauty, and in the morning you will expect a breakfast with champagne.

The given service already enjoys wide popularity among a newly-married couple.

Reserve cheap apartments if you love sauna!

New research of Hotel.info asserts, in the European hotels not especially love conditioners and prefer to arrange to lodgers "warm reception". Is especially hot in hotels of northern countries of Europe.

The Madrid hotels the most cooled

According to research, for tourists the most comfortable in hotels of Madrid (conditioners in 72,7% of apartments), Athenes (69,1% of the conditioned apartments), Budapest (66,7%) and Rome (66,6%). Is worse affairs in Paris (38,6%), Prague (37,9%), Warsaw (23,2%) and London (26,3%) are. In Moscow of only 23% of hotel rooms are equipped by conditioners. Thus, hotel reservation needs to be begun with stock-taking of the conditioned apartments (certainly depending on the country).

On last place in the TOP — Stockholm. Only 13,3% of local hotels have conditioners in apartments. It can be justified because in the Swedish capital seldom happens hot summer. Nevertheless, in summer 2010 many of tourists in Stockholm suffer from absence of the conditioned apartments.

Is necessary note, conditioner presence in apartments does not mean, that the conditioner will function. Sometimes hotels save an electricity and conditioners include seasonally — for example, from the middle of June. It's especially actual for cheap hotel, thus take it into consideration reserving cheap apartments.

Top Secrets of Cheap Hotels

Sex, Drugs, Rock'N'Roll!

The international club of travel «Club 18-30» — the British tourist agency which 30 years exist.

Entertainments For Carefree People

«The purpose of our rest — entertainments, dances and to fuck every day. The meal is not important, we only eat the minimum, sandwiches or hamburgers», — members of club speak.

About audience of club speak not only scandalous prints, but also the name — «Club 18-30», it's middle age of target audience of club — from 18 till 30 years.

The guaranteed wine parties, night clubs, private beaches! Thus the club lodges the members in cheap hotels, thus they spend more money directly on entertainments.

Paraphrasing classic slogan — sex, drugs, rock'n'roll in a non-stop regime.

«Club 18-30» Summer '09

Unusual hotel Viura in wine region of Spain

Spanish architectural studio «Designhouses» has finished recently work on unusual hotel Hotel Viura in well-known wine region of Spain the Rioja Alavesa. As justifying this area, the hotel has received the name in honour of white grades of grapes.

Spanish Cubic Vanguard

The unusual hotel is located in the centre of the Spanish village Sierra de Cantabria, thus the this hotellit literally adjoins Catholic church of 17th century. For a choice of visitors: 26 standard apartments and 7 luxury penthouses. To spend leisure-time is possible in any of two wine bars or at more respectable restaurant located nearby.

The design of a building propagandises opposition to traditional architectural forms. Thus the structure is ideally entered in surrounding landscape, using natural features of a relief.

In spite of the fact that under the form and a structure the hotel strikingly differs from the archaic houses located in the neighbourhood, this contrast does not break provincial harmony of an ancient Spanish village.

Hotel Viura, Rioja Alavesa, Spain

The First Hotel by Armani

The first Armani hotel has opened in the highest building of the world — Burj Khalifa in Dubai. The hotel of high level is issued in minimalist style, without impetuous luxury peculiar to the Near East.

ARMANI. Hotel in Dubai

Hotel Armani is closed from casual visitors: to reserve apartments is possible only for exclusive clients and their friends.

Also at hotel there is a luxury restaurants. The trained personnel is dressed in dress by Armani.

On a choice is available three restaurants: Armani/Amal (with an Indian cuisine), Armani/Hashi (with Japanese) and Armani/Peck (offering dishes of Italy).

Armani Hotel, Dubai

Dances with Wolves

Ogilvy & Mather (Hong Kong) has started global campaign for a network of Shangri-La hotels.

Hospitality Metaphors

The advertising campaign purpose — by means of metaphors (enough unusual to this business) and histories to tell about philosophy of the relation to the clients.

The adv campaign is initiated by a slogan — "It's In Our Nature". Through the nature, Shangri-La and Ogilvy & Mather (Hong Kong) tell about how they care of clients throughout already 40 years.

This message has been chosen after the long research which have been carried out by advertising agency among employees, partners and visitors of hotels.

Making of Shangri-La

In Monaco arrives more and more tourists

Monaco — the popular country for short trips: the annual traffic is exceeded 4,5 million persons/Year. 72% of the foreigners coming to Monaco — individual tourists.

Luxury Heart of Europe

Basically, the princedom of Monaco is visited by citizens of Italy, the Great Britain and France. Number of the American tourists does not exceed 5%. Within the limits of cruises, last year in Monaco has visited 280 thousand tourists, and in 2010 their number can increase to 450 thousand. 28% of visitors come to Monaco for participation in business and corporate actions. However, even large corporations prefer to use cheap flights because in Europe traditionally budgetary airlines give considerable discounts for corporate clients.

95% of hotel business in Monaco consist of 4- and 5-stars hotels. In many of them services of the cosmetician and thalassotherapy are rendered. The Head cook of restaurants of local hotels are known for the whole world. Besides it, to have a dinner at such restaurants, is need to reserve little places is recommended long before a trip. Besides, in a cellar is insisted own cognac, thus, only at restaurants of this hotel a cognac is truly unique.

The night life also involves tourists in Monaco. 75% of tourists prefer to reserve airline tickets through the Internet or terminal cash desks. To numerous high quality night clubs of a princedom of Monaco, Black Legend recently was added. Representatives of tourist business remind, for visiting the luxury night clubs in Monte Carlo — is required the identification card, and necessity in test of your dress-code — in funny T-shorts and beach shorts for you there are no chances ;)

Rick Steves' Europe: Monaco

Avoriaz — a legendary French resort

Avoriaz — the main sports centre of the area consisting of 14 resorts, located between Mont Blanc and lake of Geneva and carrying the general name of "a sun Collar".

The largest mountain-skiing centre of the world

This joint the ex-Swiss mounting skiing resort, one of the largest mountain-skiing centres of the world. Total figures impressing enough: 650 km of lines (100 km — black), 229 lifts (about 228,000 person at an o'clock), more than ten settlements almost on 100,000 having a rest. Certainly, this one of the best places for mountain skiers.

Magnificent mounting skiing resort

As a whole it is possible to tell, that resorts so various on character, that their association is caused only by territorial affinity. Thus possibility by means of lifts to reach the next areas of driving, as a rule, is not used.

Avoriaz — settlement very stylish, especial charm is created from full absence of motor transport. You come, leave the car on entrance, and movement on a resort is carried out on special sledge (service paid, depending on distance, the luggage is paid in addition).

Lines basically dark blue and red though there are and some black. The settlement is located very conveniently for skiers — it is possible to "moor" on skis to any hotel.
Rather universal zone of driving "for all".

For snowboarders Avoriaz is a cult place. According to many from is the best resort of the world. The resort is good for all kinds of driving. For freeriders jumps from rocky islands and driving between trees are provided.

Ski Resort Avoriaz

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc — a legendary mounting skiing resort

French resort Chamonix-Mont-Blanc — one of the most picturesque places on a planet. To visit on this resort each climber respecting and the skier aspires, after all it is the historical native land of mountain skiing. Here in far 1924 the first-ever Winter Olympic Games have taken place.

And the history of the resort totals approximately 200 years! About this place in due time wrote Charles Dickens: «In valley Chamonix-Mont-Blanc — the finest landscapes which I ever saw. And, moreover, I cannot imagine something more remarkable in the nature».

Chamonix-Mont-Blanc it is ideal for tourists

Today Chamonix-Mont-Blanc breaks all records on capacity. Constantly on a resort lives more than 10,000 persons, and for tourists 90 hotels and 4,000 inhabited apartments are constructed. Besides, Frenchmen name Chamonix-Mont-Blanc the centre for shopping as the most fashionable boutiques and shops of firms and the companies from all world here are located.

The main feature of a resort — a convenient site: nearby there are airports Annsi, Lyons, Geneva, Grenoble and the railway. Coming here, it is necessary to remember, that the resort lives seasonally. Distinguish high, average and low seasons. Attendance peak — a Christmas vacation and February. At this time on a resort not only the best snow, but also the most cheerful period in respect of entertainments. Professional sportsmen most of all appreciate an average season (March — the beginning of May).

By this time students and schoolboys come back in educational institutions, and on a resort becomes silent and quiet. The low season, strangely enough, here considers January. Frenchmen explain it to that on Chamonix-Mont-Blanc is too cold at this time for skiing. Perhaps, therefore the local low season is popular at Russian tourists.

Mounting skiing resort Chamonix-Mont-Blanc

Island for Gourmets

Photo by: Tore Sætre

Key West — the most southern city of the continental USA. Among 49 states (except the State of Hawaii) it's a unique city where the temperature never falls more low 0°С. Climate: sub-tropical, temperature: approximately 30°С.

The island Key West is located on border between Atlantic ocean and Gulf of Mexico. The strait connecting Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic ocean, is called Straits of Florida.

The Most Southern State of USA

It's the most southern extremity of the USA if you remember a map — the State of Florida is "put out" to Atlantic ocean as an appendix, and Key West — most southern of a series of the islands beginning from a southern extremity of Florida.
The road to this island is laid partially on these islands, partially on bridges between islands. Distinctive feature of island — the local airport.

Among sights — the house in which lived well-known writer — Ernest Miller Hemingway, Cafe des Artistes — the most known gay restaurant on island, Southernmost on the Beach Key West — rather popular hotel, and also unique distinctive a label established in the most southern point of the USA.

A overview of Key West (Florida)

The most expensive hotels in New York and Honolulu

New York has appeared the city of the USA most expensive to tourists. About it writes magazine Forbes which has made a rating of ten American cities most expensive to tourists. Daily residing at number of the New York hotel will manage the visitor on the average in 199 dollars. In comparison with last year quotations in hotels of New York have fallen to 24%.

№2 Honolulu (Hawaii)

The 2nd place in list Forbes — Honolulu on Hawaii. Here average cost on hotel rooms reaches 160 dollars for days. For a year cost of apartments has decreased for 12%.

On the third line in a magazine rating there was Boston where the hotel room surrenders on the average for $158/1 day: for 18% is cheaper in comparison with last year. Washington, Miami, Chicago, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego and Philadelphia also have got to ten Forbes.

New York one of the most expensive cities of the world

New York is considered for a long time already one of the most expensive cities not only the USA, but also the world. In the middle of last year in the corresponding rating made Mercer Human Resource Consulting, New York settled down on 8th place. On the 1st place of the list there was a capital of Japan Tokyo.

Gastronomic Harbour of the United States

Boothbay Harbor, is the town in Lincoln County, (Maine, the USA), where during summer (if warm weather, also and autumn) the entire Boothbay Harbor region is a very popular yachting and tourist disposition especially the famous Boothbay Harbor Dining where the best cooks prepare the splendiferous fish.
Also, Boothbay Harbor Maine offers wonderful attractions for tourists: luxury resort hotel, cafe & restaurants, and marina that offer visitors magnificent Oceanfront accommodations where in every room you can enjoy water viewing or to balance on waves.

Harbour Maine Delicacies

During your travel, you should dine in some of the Boothbay Harbor bars that are located by the sea, so that you can discover the really true pleasures of seaside dining. Whether you want to try local seafood or have simply got hungry, you will find a seaside cafe in Boothbay Harbor that will give you an unforgettable dining experience.

The Lobster Dock is a most luxury Boothbay Harbor restaurant, and you necessarily should make a point to dine just here when you're in town. This seaside restaurant has a waterfront dining place that offers a impressing view of the sea, and it serves a real selection of delectable lobster and other seafood. All dishes are prepared with fresh lobsters caught in the waters around Boothbay Harbor.

In the Boothbay Harbor Hotels are available a lot of things to offer for your satisfactions, hospitable accommodation and friendly staff, room facilities are worth staying they now offer free Wi-Fi and HD Satellite TV.

Famous Auto Museum in Boothbay Harbor

Luxury Myrtle Beach Resort

We have come back home, to wood Atlanta. From my boots beach sand is still strewed, my physiognomy worries consequences of a sea wind, I try to forget stupefying 6 hours of the American highway and I touch photos from this trip.

At me was two dawn and one and a half day on absorbing salty cold air, to learn by heart rhythmical noise of a surf in interseasonal beach silence with shouts of seagulls, to remember all paints of the sea and the sand, varying between rising and a decline.

Unlike rough Miami, Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resorts — the pacified and silent small town, as the pensioner in comparison with the teenager. There is no shabby habitation, Cubans and the other Latin American population, there are no vagabonds, dust and suspicious persons loafing in search of adventures: here come families, with children and dogs, for silent respectable family rest, play a golf on spacious meadows with picturesque lakes, investigate the numerous aquaparks which majority are calculated on children.

Luxury Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotel

In local Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotels — silently and grandly, as in village, not looking at sales, "Black Friday" — day of the beginning of seasonal Christmas sales. It is necessary to tell, me the Christmas theme in this country continually for one and a half month till December, 25th, not saying that till January, 7th — is absolutely yet fast starts to tyre something already.

But not looking that small town silent and quiet, the small adventures, probably, too happen... While we with the girlfriend have arrived on Thursday evening to hotel, the hotel left the half-dressed people some — in towels and bathing suits, is visible from pool, under the guidance of hotel security services: it appears, the system of the fire alarm system so we long time expected in the car while local firemen will check up a hotel building has worked, at that time, while other half-dressed visitors Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Hotel, huddled on a roadside in expectation of possibility of the prompt returning in the rooms.

The hotel was standard, quite good, pure, but all the same I have experienced a difference in comparison with that hotel in which we were in Miami: all the same the old artistic two-storeyed hotel impresses much more, than box many-storeyed, let and with a smart view of the sea.

I was overslept till a dawn, drank tequila with spices, observing from height of the ninth floor behind how the sea separates from the sky as there is a horizon strip between the fiery sky and the ice sea, and then took the camera and went to the beach — from hotel to a wooden pier and back.

I ♥ Oceanfront Myrtle Beach Resort!

Pennsylvania — one of the most developed economic states

The main branches of an economy of the area, national value, coal extraction, pig-iron and steel melt are having. Transition of the American ferrous metallurgy to coke and the ore arriving from area of the Top lake, promoted that east Pennsylvania has lost the former value in this branch. The coal mining has fallen. However in the State of Pennsylvania the big metal works have remained.

Pennsylvania lays on the main ways to internal areas USA. This position getting the increasing value as the territory of the country and internal areas accustomed, took more and more important place in a national economy, had exclusive value for area development. Across Pennsylvania the main ways through Appalachian mountains connecting North Atlantic coast with central and the U.S. Western States lie.

Cradle of the American revolution. A conglomerate of factories on which the most part of chips and the crackers consumed in the USA is made. In Pennsylvania number of hunters per capita exceeds all conceivable limits.

The largest cities: Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, Allentown, Lancaster.

Philadelphia

The oldest city in the USA. Here have written the American constitution. Still here there are more than HIGH SCHOOLS and students, than in any other American city.

Who here lives: one and a half million person. Half from them — the Afro-Americans. The others — generally Irish, Italians and Poles.

Areas:

* The Western Philadelphia — «the University city».
* Southern Philadelphia — silent area with a large quantity of the Italian pizzerias.
* Fishtown — quarter of artists and musicians.
* Northern Philadelphia — a real ghetto with slums and gangsters.

Lancaster

57,700 inhabitants (1970; with 319,700 suburbs). The main agricultural centre of Pennsylvania.

The industry:
Metalcutting, machine-building, textile, knitted, tobacco, the food-processing industry, manufacture of hours, umbrellas, linoleum.

Lancaster PA hotels:

* To Stay the night in legendary Country Inn and Suites Manheim.
* To Spend the night in Hershey PA hotels.
* To eat the well-known cheese stake in well-known Springhill Suites for $3,75.
* Will relax in a jacuzzi in comfortable Homewood Suites.

Hotel Hershey

Myrtle Beach became even more attractive

The status of city Myrtle Beach has received in 1938, and in 1957, Myrtle Beach has been officially recognised by a large city. The city population makes more than 30,000 persons, and annually to this first class resort city there come millions having a rest. Visitors come here to luxuriate on city beaches, to bathe at the Atlantic ocean or to play in a golf. Myrtle Beach Golf Vacations — ideal pastime for fans of this kind of sports.

The well-known American golf resort

American coast Myrtle Beach well-known for the beaches in the State of South Carolina has replenished in September with a new resort class lux — Marina Inn at Grande Dunes.

Here all is made for a cosiness and convenience of visitors, the main attention is given not to beauty, and functionality. Myrtle Beach Golf Package is the best variant for those who wishes it will be trained in game in a golf!

At hotel excellent restaurants, a grill-bar work for pool, and a cosy bar-library. On open air the jacuzzi with oxygen massage is located.

Entertainments in Marina Inn too suffices — the huge fitness centre with the special equipment for people with sick heart and with excess weight; tennis club with the first class courts, instructors, specialised shop and with separate pool. Is here both a golf course, and little shops, both night entertainments, and magnificent yachts and boats for sea walks and fishing. Myrtle Beach Golf is more than 120 fields for and some tens tiny golf courses. Myrtle Beach is a well-known place for having a rest of the different countries.

Myrtle Beach is one of the main tourist points at the Atlantic coast. This area is the basic choice for rich pensioners. Golf Packages Myrtle Beach — most the decision for corporate actions and secular parties is optimum.

Myrtle Beach — Golf Trip

President Wilson

The flaky board, skin, white onyx on walls, incrustation of crystals Swarovski on a floor, the subjects of art created by Korean sculptor Jae-Hyo Lee, sheets of grey silver on a ceiling, a mosaic from platinum, the big plasma screens, a chandelier from pearls is all elements 5 stars hotels lux. In most expensive number in the world you deliver the private lift and if it would be desirable to arrange a party — at your order a drawing room on 40 persons. Such beauty also is not bad protected — in number bullet-proof glasses.

Palms Casino

In hotel is number of the world second for dearness - Hugh Hefner Sky Villa.

Number is located on 34 floor and offers everything, that is necessary for rest in style Playboy - subjects of conditions with the well-known logo (selected personally the owner), a jacuzzi open-air and a rotating bed. The drawing room, a lunch hall and a bar are applied.

The Ritz-Carlton

The Ritz-Carlton (Tokyo, Japan) Cost of the most comfortable number (Carlton suite) in Tokyo The Ritz-Carlton to you will manage in 17 200 dollars for a night. The area in 1 292 sq. foots allows to contain many magnificent conveniences, but main ornament Carlton suite — fine kinds on mountain Fuji. Carlton suite it is located on last floor of the highest building of Tokyo which is The Ritz-Carlton.