Feb 23rd, 2010 at 2:00PM: What do you do when lenders take over two of your hotels, as your coping with the worst recession in seven decades? Well, if you're Starwood Hotels, you make a $350 million bet with a single property from your W line. The hotel opened on January 15, 2010, and it's banking on the reputation of Los Angeles as the center of the entertainment world. Located on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Feb 23rd, 2010 at 2:00PM: What do you do when lenders take over two of your hotels, as your coping with the worst recession in seven decades? Well, if you're Starwood Hotels, you make a $350 million bet with a single property from your W line. The hotel opened on January 15, 2010, and it's banking on the reputation of Los Angeles as the center of the entertainment world. Located on Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, the ...Hotels working on technology that could eliminate front desk check-in
Feb 19th, 2010 at 10:30AM: Imagine checking into your hotel room from your WiFi-enabled flight, or even in the cab on your way to the hotel from the airport. According to a story in USA Today's Hotel Check-in column, that's the concept some hotels are working on.
Starwood Hotels has been at the forefront of this high-tech endeavor with their Aloft Hotel in Lexington, Mass. You have to be a member of the Starwood ...Starwood plans a Sheraton Times Square makeover
Feb 5th, 2010 at 10:00AM: The Sheraton Manhattan at Times Square is prepping for a bit of a nip/tuck, says owner Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.
The redevelopment plan will evaluate how to best make use of the full city-block space the hotel occupies (Broadway, Seventh Avenue and 51st and 52nd Street near Times Square). Part of the makeover will include the Sheraton flying a Starwood flag. As the hotel is ...Starwood accuses Hilton of corporate espionage
Jan 16th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Two of the largest hotel chains in the world are locked in battle -- legal battle. Starwood Hotels has accused 44 of Hilton's top executives of stealing trade secrets. Christopher Nassetta, the CEO of Hilton, is alleged to have known about this activity, according to an amended complaint that Starwood filed with the Manhattan federal court. The object of affection thievery was the luxury category ...Starwood Hotels to add 6,000 U.S. jobs in 2010
Jan 13th, 2010 at 10:30AM: Starwood Hotels, the operator of Sheraton, Westin and W brand hotels, gave the U.S. job market some much needed hope when it announced plans to add about 6,000 new U.S. jobs in 2010.
Starwood said the new jobs will be created in accordance with the 80 to 100 hotels it plans to open this year, including hotels in New York City, Los Angeles, Biloxi, Miss., Kalamazoo, Mich. and more popular ...Cyber Monday: not just for retailers any more
Nov 29th, 2009 at 5:00PM: After four days off, the world will slide behind its desks again on Monday morning. They'll try to get back into the swing of work life, but it won't be immediate. So, as they ease back into productivity, many will push into the shopping world they dodged three days earlier on Black Friday. The hotels will be waiting for them, with more than 60 of them pushing deals to try to get in on the holiday ...Enter to win jetBlue's Jet and Drive Giveaway
Oct 29th, 2009 at 2:30PM: I love a good travel contest, especially one that requires little effort to enter. So I'm excited about the jetBlue and Hertz Jet & Drive Giveaway, which runs now through through January 31, 2010. To enter, all you need to do is surf on over to the website, complete your free registration and then enter your email address. Easy, peasy.
For that minimal effort, you could win some pretty cool ...Can't afford a nice hotel in New York? Stay in New Jersey.
Jul 30th, 2009 at 5:00PM: You often hear New Yorkers joke that the best thing about New Jersey is that you can see New York really well from there -- well, why not take advantage of that? Luxury hotels in NYC are super expensive (really, all hotels are super expensive), so do what so many young families and artists in New York do when they get tired of paying prohibitively high rent: Head across the Hudson. In particular, ...Gadling hotel review - Aloft by W Hotels
Jul 21st, 2009 at 11:00AM:
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This hotel review will give you a closer look at one of the newest brands in the Starwood chain. The Aloft hotels are touted as a "vision of W hotels". The Aloft hotels are smaller than W hotels, located outside the city center and offer rooms at a substantially lower ...Travel to lose 200,000+ jobs
Feb 27th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Nearly 200,000 travel-related jobs were lost in 2008. Another 247,000 are forecasted for 2009. And, the financial crisis is still developing. While we lament the loss of six- and seven-figure investment banking jobs, let's not forget what those big money gigs mean for the travel industry. Consider your average Wall Street titan. He's still pulling down more than $1 million a year (somehow). So, ...Get a free Clear security pass for three months!
Jan 17th, 2009 at 2:00PM: We finally found a way to give Clear security a trial run without having to pay any of their fees. Previously, we uncovered a deal to get access to the fast-track airport screening service, but it only worked if you were in an elite tier of a hotel rewards program. Now, it's available for everyone. The key is that you have to be a member of Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG), the rewards program run ...Starwood Preferred Guest program integrates flight bookings
Sep 4th, 2008 at 9:00AM: Many business travelers hold a variety of memberships across the travel industry -- a Priority Club membership for points towards Holiday Inn stays, a Skymiles number for miles towards Delta flights, an Emerald Club membership for National rental cars. All of these come in handy for that one time that you're actually on vacation and want to reap some benefit for all of those days on the road with ...Hotel of Twists and Turns
Dec 5th, 2006 at 8:05AM: Many travelers have heard of the Bilbao, Spain, Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Gehry. But not many know of Gehry's first hotel project, El Hotel Marques de Riscal, owned by the winery of the same name.
Gehry is well-known for his dramatic, twisting, turning, sweeping designs, including the "Dancing House" in Prague and Seattle's Experience Music Project building. Now, his characteristic ...
