Best of hospitality in the news – part 12 – 26 October 2016
China’s HNA Group buys $6.5 billion stake in Hilton, extends hotels push
China’s aviation and shipping giant HNA Group extended its push into hotels and Chinese tourism on Monday, paying $6.5 billion to buy a 25 percent stake in Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc (HLT.N) from biggest shareholder Blackstone Group LP (BX.N).
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China’s Hunt For Hotels Goes Beyond Luxury Travel
Investors have heard it now for years. The Chinese are shopping and traveling like never before. They’re companies are buying up hotels, to cater to this very trend as well as hold prized possessions like Anbang Insurance’s $1.9 billion purchase of iconic Waldorf Astoria in New York in 2014.
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What a Luxury Hotel Should Be: The Ritz-Carlton Kyoto
“Would you like me to cut them in half?” came a quiet voice from behind the sushi counter as I was halfway through my omakase dinner at the Ritz-Carlton Kyoto. It was the first non-airplane food I’d eaten in more than 24 hours—and one of the best sushi meals of my life—and I wanted to savor every morsel.
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Donald Trump’s brand is distancing itself from his name as the empire falls under siege
Donald Trump’s namesake business is launching a new hotel chain that —unlike Trump’s dozens of other hotels, golf courses, and casinos — won’t carry the presidential candidate’s name.
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Premier Inn is voted the best UK hotel chain and a brand owned by one of Britain’s richest men is ranked the worst
Which? surveyed its members on the best and worst hotel chains in the UK – Britannia, owned by millionaire Alex Langsam, was voted the worst again – It’s the fourth time the group has been at the bottom of the annual ranking – For the second year running, Premier Inn scored the top chain accolade
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10 haunted and historic hotels in Europe
From trick-or-treating and watching gory films to dodging creepy clowns at haunted houses, there are plenty of ways to ring in Halloween. But for those who are looking to up the fear factor even more, we rounded up 10 of the most haunted hotels in Europe that you can spend the night in. These houses of horrors, which will surely keep you up all night, range from former prisons with spooky specters to medieval castles with bloody, spine-chilling pasts.
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