Central London’s W Hotel Launches Vegan Menu | livekindly.co
One of central London's most luxurious hotels, the W Hotel London, is introducing a new vegan menu.
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See the Northern Lights from this Arctic cabin on a sled | cnn.com
Seeing the Northern Lights is an unforgettable experience, but standing outside in the cold waiting for them to appear is pretty tedious. So, what if you could enjoy the Aurora Borealis from the comfort of your bed? And what if your bed could be moved, depending on where the Aurora was strongest? That's the concept behind a new, slightly bizarre, portable cabin-on-a-sled created by luxury adventure company Off the Map Travel .At the beginning of each Aurora season, Off the Map guides will drag the three cabins to the best destinations to spot the lights. Guests arrive, are guided to their quarters and then left to enjoy the wilderness, Arctic beauty and, with luck, Aurora above.
Hotel Investment In Barcelona On Hold Since October 2017 | tourism-review.com
The hotel investment industry in Barcelona has been on hold since last October 1, due to the political crisis in Catalonia and, even though numerous investments have been on decline, diverting to cities like Madrid or Valencia, there is still interest in the hotel market as the city regains its stability.
Beauty maven Bobbi Brown is getting into the hotel business | cnn.com
Bobbi Brown is best known for the beauty brand bearing her name. The minimalist, flattering eyeshadows and lipsticks won many busy working women as fans, but Brown sold the company to Estee Lauder in 2016 and has been looking for a new project ever since.The answer came in a form she didn't expect -- a hotel in her pretty suburban New Jersey hometown.Unlike many in the beauty and fashion worlds, Brown was content not to be a regular on the New York City party scene, preferring a quieter life with her husband, developer Steven Plofker, and three sons in Montclair, about 45 minutes outside of Manhattan. Montclair is a picturesque, sleepy college town that refutes the cliche of New Jersey as dirty and industrial.Does this mean that A-listers might abandon Manhattan for the 'burbs? Brown thinks it's worth taking the risk, and she spoke to CNN Travel about her new life as a hotelier.
SuperShe Island: Women-only luxury retreat opening in Finland | cnn.com
Did you watch hit movie "Wonder Woman" and daydream about escaping to her home, the female-only island of Themyscira?
British Cities Plan To Promote Destinations In Asia
London, Manchester and Birmingham are set to collaborate and extensively promote British cities in China, India and also the Persian Gulf. The goal is to increase and develop tourism inflow from these three rapidly growing markets towards the future.
Italy To Focus More On Medical Tourism | tourism-review.com
After food, culture, fashion and design, health is another candidate to become one of the distinctive features of Made in Italy. The goal is to make Italy a top destination of medical tourism.
Protest: Hotel Sector In Barcelona Lost Eur 50 Million | tourism-review.com
The hotel sector in Barcelona lost half a million euros of daily revenue per available room (RevPar) during the third quarter of the year due to the Catalan crisis, after growing at a record rate of 16% in the first nine months, according to the results of a data study by STR and Magma Consulting.
This Paris hotel is the most romantic in the world, according to TripAdvisor
Whether it's the glittering Eiffel Tower or the smell of fresh baguettes wafting through the air, Paris is known for romance.
Italian town Ollolai sells $1 homes to lure new residents
Ever dreamed of owning a home in a pretty Italian village? The news you've been waiting for has finally arrived.You can now buy one for just over a dollar.Ollolai, a destination in the mountain region of Barbagia on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, is selling hundreds of abandoned homes for just €1 ($1.2).It's not the first Italian town to try the gimmick, but it seems to be the first to live up to the promise. It's also got the beauty and history needed to draw people in.The real estate bonanza comes with a catch, though. The 200 stone-built dwellings up for grabs are in poor condition and buyers must commit to a refurbishment within three years -- which will likely cost about $25,000.Behind the sell-off is a plan to rejuvenate a community at risk of becoming a ghost town. In the past half century, Ollolai's population has shrunk from 2,250 to 1,300, with only a handful of babies born each year.
Airbnb remits over €13.5M of tourist tax to 50 French cities, extends to 15,000 cities | airbnbcitizen.com
Airbnb will remit more than €13.5M in tourist tax to 50 French cities for the year 2017 by the end of the month, nearly twice the amount collected in 2016 (€7.3M). Following this milestone, Airbnb is committing to extend automated tax collection to more than 15,000 cities, becoming the first and only platform to support local tax authorities on such a scale. These additional resources will be invested by French cities in tourism projects to boost local communities.
Inside Sweden's new floating hotel | cnn.com
A good vacation is an escape from the everyday and this upcoming resort in the Swedish Lapland, couldn't be further from normal life -- it's literally floating on a river in the middle of nowhere. ArcticBath is a new hotel adrift on the Lule River in the Scandinavian north -- a glacial haven of snow-tipped forests, world-class fishing, amazing wildlife and the Northern Lights. The resort is from the team behind the region's acclaimed Treehotel -- the quirky brainchild of owners Britta and Kent Lindvall, situated amongst the forest canopy. ArcticBath will offer a similar mix of luxury and nature -- inspired by the wild, stunning Swedish surroundings.
Sexual harassment rampant in hospitality industry, survey finds - theguardian.com
Workers in bars, restaurants, clubs and hotels face a barrage of abuse so common it has become entirely normalised, with the vast majority of workers subjected to sexual harassment, according to new evidence seen by the Guardian. Preliminary research gathered from workers in the hospitality industry found that 89% said they had experienced one or more incidents of sexual harassment in their working life. Testimony from workers suggests sexual harassment is happening in plain sight, with many employers accused of failing to protect staff from regular abuse.
Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Awards 2018: What's it like to stay in Europe's best B&B? | independent.co.uk
If you ever find yourself stranded at a tiny, backwater station somewhere outside Oxford in the middle of a snowstorm, it turns out there is no one better to have on speed dial than Wendy Veale, proprietor of the Old School Bed and Breakfast.
She will cluck sympathetically about the state of the railways before jumping in the car and making the hour-long round trip from Little Compton to come and pick you up, no questions asked.
Medical Tourism In Germany Continues To Be A Successful Business | tourism-review.com
Annually, around 250 thousand people from 177 countries receive medical treatment in Germany. Around 100 thousand foreign patients are admitted into German hospitals. It is estimated that between 40 to 45% of foreign patients arrive ton Germany specifically for medical treatment. The European country receives more than 1.2 million euros annually as an income from medical tourism.
With these funds, hospitals employ more personnel, buy equipment and much more which is then available to all patients, local and international.
Most patients come from neighboring countries such as Poland, the Netherlands or France. There are also many patients from Russia, the Community of Independent States or from Arab countries in the Gulf. Above all patients from the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait come to Germany.
Inside Monaco's $48,000-a-night Princess Grace hotel suite | cnn.com
You can do a lot with $48,000 -- pick up a couple of basic SUVs, acquire three Bitcoins or even buy a small house. Or, as of February 2018, you can drop the whole chunk of change on one night in what's being touted as the most expensive and exclusive suite on the French Riviera. The opulent two-bedroom Princess Grace suite is the centrepiece of four-year, multimillion dollar renovations at the Hotel de Paris Monte-Carlo in the swanky Mediterranean principality of Monaco.
When History Goes Hip: How The UK's Country House Hotel Scene Is Being Reinvented | forbes.com
The UK's country house scene is having a moment. Where once many of these stately homes-turned-hotels offered little more than too much chintz, tired rooms and overblown, fussy service, these days innovative hoteliers are putting in place a new vision to refresh their historic rooms. The result is the opening of a new batch of glorious properties to entice a modern-day traveller.
Auchrannie becomes Scotland's first employee-owned resort | bbc.com
The Isle of Arran resort of Auchrannie has become the first in Scotland to be owned by its employees.
The resort has been owned and operated by the Johnston family since 1988 and is valued at £4.3m.
An Employee Ownership Trust now holds 100% of the company's shares on behalf of its 160 employees.
The existing shareholders, all members of the Johnston family, will be paid out of the profits of the business over a 25-year period.
When Iain and Linda Johnston bought Auchrannie in 1988 it was a 16-bedroom guest house.
The family has since grown it into a resort with two hotels totalling 85 rooms, 30 self-catering lodges, three restaurants, two leisure clubs and an outdoor adventure centre.
'Game of Thrones'-themed ice hotel opens in Finland | economictimes.com
'Game of Thrones' may return in 2019 but the winter is already here for the fans of the HBO epic fantasy drama who can now have a freezing experience in a new hotel that has opened in Finland, inspired by the show.
10 of the best Amsterdam hotels | independent.co.uk
It may rank high on the list of destinations for stag and hen dos, but Amsterdam has so much more to offer than an inebriated weekend browsing its (in)famous coffee shops. The last few years have seen a wave of new hotels arriving in the city, seriously expanding the range of interesting options to stay within – and, most encouragingly, beyond – the well-trodden cobbled streets of its immediate historic core. Even existing properties have been dealt a much needed jolt and upped their game.