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Archive for February, 2012
W Hotels Debuts in France with Paris Property
February 29th, 2012 | 
Author: Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. announces today the debut of W Hotels Worldwide in France with the highly-anticipated opening of W Paris – Opera.
Travel booking sites prevail in Tenn. tax suit
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Hotel booking websites including Priceline, Travelocity, Expedia and Orbitz have prevailed against more than a hundred Tennessee counties and municipalities in a legal fight over hotel tax collections.
Paul Theroux Walks Into Mexico
Nogales, to be specific.
In a lifetime of crossing borders I find this pitiless fence the oddest frontier I have ever seen—more formal than the Berlin Wall, more brutal than the Great Wall of China, yet in its way just as much an example of the same folie de grandeur. Built just six months ago, this towering, seemingly endless row of vertical steel beams is so amazing in its conceit you either want to see more of it, or else run in the opposite direction—just the sort of conflicting emotions many people feel when confronted with a peculiar piece of art.
Theroux has written more about Africa, Asia and Europe than he has Mexico, so it’s nice to see his take on someplace closer to home. His story appeared in Sunday’s New York Times.
Spaghetti Eating and Beer Pong
South Point looks for new contests to lure people from the Strip to their hotel.
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The Halibut Taco is Alaska’s Unofficial State Dish. Discuss.
Photo by I spent nine days traveling in Southeast Alaska last month, and as I went from one panhandle port to the next, and from bar to pub to restaurant, I noticed something: the halibut taco is everywhere. It’s even outstripping such traditional Alaskan standbys as king crab legs, beer-battered halibut fish ‘n’ chips, and seafood chowder. It’s the new normal.
I’m not World Hum’s designated taco expert, by any means—Jim’s the Mexican food addict around here—but I’ve been intrigued by unexpected Mexican-in-the-sub-Arctic offerings before. And I’m no less intrigued by the halibut taco seemingly conquering the last frontier.
Alaska isn’t a state that most people associate with cutting-edge cultural fusion (though if you spend much time there, you’ll see there’s more to the place than the Discovery Channel lets on), and it seems to me that the taco’s dominance there is just one more sign of our ever-shrinking planet. I say, bring on the tasty and fascinating cultural variations.
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Accor to open 23 new hotels in Middle East until 2015
Accor Middle East, one of the leading hospitality groups in the region, plans to open 23 new hotels within the next three years.
UPDATE 1-Priceline quarterly profit jumps, bookings rise
Online travel agency Priceline.com on Monday said its fourth-quarter profit rose as the value of its bookings gained more than 50 percent from a year ago.
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Hotel Travel at Your Fingertips
At the new 296-room Aloft Sukhumvit 11 hotel in Bangkok, some guests aren’t getting room keys.
Argentina bars Carnival ships from docking
An Argentine province turned away two Carnival Corp. cruise ships early Monday, seeking leverage against Britain in the country’s sovereignty dispute over the Falkland Islands.
Cruising Western Carribbean-Robbed In Mexico
It happened last week to tourists taking a land tour from a Carnival Cruise ship into Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.