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Why Luxury Hotels Are Sending Guests Home With Unforgettable Gifts
Velvet Venetian Slippers from a collaboration between Piedàterre Venezia and Villa Treville in Positano The chocolate on the pillow used to be the final touch of a hotel stay. Now it barely registers. At the world's top hotel properties…
Thousands queue for Europe holidays as wildfires force Brits to flee hotels
More than six million people are hitting the roads as the summer holidays begin – battling 30C temperatures and nose-to-tail traffic jams. The AA predicts 6.3 million of us will make journeys between now and Thursday. Yellow heat health…
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. stock underperforms Friday when compared to competitors despite daily gains
Shares of Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. HST rose 2.25% to $24.50 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around favorable trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.05% to 7,411.98 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA…
David's Harp Hotel & Suites Netanya, the true meaning of hospitality
There are beach towns that spend decades trying to reinvent themselves. Netanya has never really bothered. It remains gloriously itself: a Mediterranean city where French Jewish families fill the promenade in summer, older Israelis argue loudly…
I stayed at a hotel voted the best in Seattle. Now I'll book the chain wherever I travel.
The 1 Hotels chain has been around since 2015 and operates worldwide. It has locations in the US, the UK, and Australia, among other places. More than a dozen locations are open and operating, with more coming soon to Mexico, Greece, and France.
Former convent is the ulimate hotel for book lovers
The Literary Man, Obidos, Portugal Staying at The Literary Man means dragging my suitcase 400 metres from the bus stop along a snaky cobbled street, but it's worth the short-term headache. It's just past dusk, and all would be silent if not for my…
The Creepy Real Hotel That Terrified Stephen King Into Writing 'The Shining'
Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining, later adapted into a renowned film of the same name by Stanley Kubrick in 1980, tells the story of a family whose lives unravel during a stay at a sinister hotel, named The Overlook Hotel. (The…
RAM thieves in China jailed after looting a string of eSport hotels - stole 16 sticks worth $2,000 in 'frenzied hotel room-dismantling
A man by the name of Li and his partner by the name of Cheng have been arrested for a string of RAM stick thefts from various hotels in China where gaming PCs are standard room equipment. This was a pretty small-time operation, with a total of ~…
Hacked Hotel Wi-Fi Used to Steal Guests' Logins
A spying campaign is hijacking the Wi-Fi at hotels and conference centers in an effort to steal logins and authentication tokens from users, according to a cybersecurity vendor. “Compromised Wi-Fi gateways were identified across multiple US…
Saudi Prince Found at Kensington Hotel Died From Cocktail of Drugs
Watch: Celebrity Deaths 2026: Catherine O'Hara, Eric Dane & More Fallen Stars Content warning: This article discusses drug use. The cause of death of a Saudi prince has officially been confirmed. Over six months after Prince Abdullah bin Fahad bin…
Proposals offer different futures for Daytona Beach's historic Campbell Hotel
Updated: 4:53 PM EDT Jul 24, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ Proposals offer different futures for Daytona Beach's historic Campbell Hotel Updated: 4:53 PM EDT Jul 24, 2026 Editorial Standards ⓘ DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — The future of…
I booked a hotel through Qantas. When I arrived, I felt unsafe
I booked a seemingly nice-looking hotel situated in Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru, via the Qantas Hotels app, but it didn't exist as was advertised. A solo female traveller, I turned up at night to check in, and it ended up being via a nondescript…
China's top market regulator fines Trip.com 5.179b yuan for abusing its dominance in online hotel booking market
China's top market regulator on Saturday fined online travel agency Trip.com Group 3.521 billion yuan ($519.93 million) and confiscated 1.658 billion yuan in illegal gains from its monopolistic practices by abusing its dominant market position…
China fines Trip.com $992m over online hotel-booking monopoly
Sign up now: Get insights on Asia's fast-moving developments Published Jul 25, 2026, 11:33 AM BEIJING – China's market regulator said on July 25 it had fined and confiscated a total of 5.2 billion yuan (S$991 million) from Trip.com Group for…
Iran threatens US hotels, banks and Trump properties as attacks reported in Bahrain, Iraq and Jordan
Iran's notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) paramilitary warned residents of seven Middle Eastern countries to keep their distance from US interests — including American-owned hotels, banks, and corporate headquaters.
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