Lower-priced hotels have long been the realm of Muzak-filled lobbies outfitted with worse-for-wear furniture and industrial carpeting. But the genre has entered a new era. A wine bar? A sleek lounge area? Free Wi-Fi?
Sin Hwa Dee began operations in the 1970s as a cottage industry in the former soya sauce-producing enclave of Kim Chuan Road, in the Paya Lebar area of Singapore.
New York, London and Hong Kong are the business hubs of the global economy. All major banks have their headquarters or offices in these cities and it's the same for the hotel industry.
Preventing the destruction of rainforests should be high on the to-do list of anyone worried about global warming. Scientists say burning or destroying forests accounts for at least 20% of global, greenhouse gas emissions.
Consumers today have more power than ever before. The large and diverse selection of media available on newsstands means that customers know what they should be getting, and if they aren't satisfied with the service there's a host of Web sites and forums on which they can let everyone know.
U.S. stock futures pointed toward a flat open Thursday as investors waited to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would say during their testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Consider, if you will, the humble coffee mug - that's right, the one with the wacky slogan on it that you might be drinking from right now. By bringing a mug to work and using it, instead of chugging your caffeine fix from disposable cups, you can help reduce the 2 million tons of paper and plastic cups and plates tossed out in the U.S. each year.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced San Diego County residents are navigating around road closures to find refuge in shelters and hotel rooms a safe distance from the wildfires encroaching on their neighborhoods.
The travel industry is sinking billions of dollars into technology like online booking tools, check-in kiosks and phone systems that recognize your voice, promising it will make you next trip easier than ever.
Buyout firms haven't been the only ones benefiting from the rash of deals taking a host of big companies private - investors have also been cashing in on the takeover party.
Lower-priced hotels have long been the realm of Muzak-filled lobbies outfitted with worse-for-wear furniture and industrial carpeting. But the genre has entered a new era. A wine bar? A sleek lounge area? Free Wi-Fi?
Sin Hwa Dee began operations in the 1970s as a cottage industry in the former soya sauce-producing enclave of Kim Chuan Road, in the Paya Lebar area of Singapore.
New York, London and Hong Kong are the business hubs of the global economy. All major banks have their headquarters or offices in these cities and it's the same for the hotel industry.
Preventing the destruction of rainforests should be high on the to-do list of anyone worried about global warming. Scientists say burning or destroying forests accounts for at least 20% of global, greenhouse gas emissions.
Consumers today have more power than ever before. The large and diverse selection of media available on newsstands means that customers know what they should be getting, and if they aren't satisfied with the service there's a host of Web sites and forums on which they can let everyone know.
U.S. stock futures pointed toward a flat open Thursday as investors waited to hear what Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson would say during their testimony before the Senate Banking Committee, slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Consider, if you will, the humble coffee mug - that's right, the one with the wacky slogan on it that you might be drinking from right now. By bringing a mug to work and using it, instead of chugging your caffeine fix from disposable cups, you can help reduce the 2 million tons of paper and plastic cups and plates tossed out in the U.S. each year.
Hundreds of thousands of displaced San Diego County residents are navigating around road closures to find refuge in shelters and hotel rooms a safe distance from the wildfires encroaching on their neighborhoods.
The travel industry is sinking billions of dollars into technology like online booking tools, check-in kiosks and phone systems that recognize your voice, promising it will make you next trip easier than ever.
Buyout firms haven't been the only ones benefiting from the rash of deals taking a host of big companies private - investors have also been cashing in on the takeover party.
Militants will continue to target Westerners on the streets of Indonesia as they fight to impose full Islamic law, an accused terror leader told CNN.
Militants will continue to target Westerners on the streets of Indonesia as they fight to impose full Islamic law, an accused terror leader told CNN.
One of Southeast Asia's most wanted terrorists is in police custody, an anti-terror police official in Indonesia has told CNN.
In 1927, J. Willard Marriott and new bride, Alice, opened a nine-stool root beer stand in Washington, D.C. It grew into a restaurant chain called Hot Shoppes and much later became a hotel company. Their son Bill Marriott worked in the kitchen as a young man.
Commercial real estate group Lightstone Group is buying Extended Stay Hotels from private equity firm Blackstone Group for $8 billion in one of the biggest hotel deals in history.
Here are the fitness offerings from a sampling of major hotel chains:
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad's airport Tuesday after he was stopped by security as he tried to enter the airport, police sources told CNN.
A suicide bomber killed a security guard and himself in an attack outside the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad on Friday, Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said.
DaimlerChrysler The automaker's turnaround plan is likely to include job cuts and the closing of two of 13 North American assembly plants, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune.
When you're staying at a hotel, would you like a pet goldfish to keep you company? Or perhaps warm cookies at bedtime to help lull you to sleep?
Marriott Hotels has become the latest hotel group to include more technology in their hotel rooms to accommodate the multi-media savvy traveler.
Four suspected Islamic militants accused in the deadly October 2005 restaurant bombings on Indonesia's tourist resort island of Bali have gone on trial, according to The Associated Press.
Tottenham Hotspur officials called in the police to investigate after ten of their players went down with a food poisoning ahead of a 2-1 defeat to West Ham in the Premier League on Sunday.
Marriott International ranks no. 203 on this year's list of the FORTUNE 500, with $11,550 million in revenues, up 14.4% from the previous year. The Bethesda, Md.-based company was ranked no. 224 on the 2005 list. Its 2005 profits were $669 million, up 12.2% from a year earlier.
A man arrested in connection with Natalee Holloway's 2005 disappearance has been ordered to remain in custody for another eight days, authorities on the Caribbean island of Aruba announced Monday.
Stocks gained modestly Thursday morning as upbeat earnings from Aetna, Marriott and others enabled investors to extend the previous session's advance.
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Jim and Diane Smith are homeowners on the edge. For the past several months they have been taking mental notes on every new housing statistic in the papers: existing-home sales, housing starts, inventories and so on.
Amid a growing number of cases of bird flu around the world, there is increasing global concern that the virus may mutate to a human-to-human strain and eventually lead to a pandemic.
Australia has issued a fresh travel warning for Bali and cited "uncorroborated information" that names the tourist area of Seminyak as a potential target for terrorist attacks.
A regional terrorism expert has called on Indonesia to outlaw Jemaah Islamiyah, the militant Islamic organization widely believed to be behind the weekend terror attacks in Bali.
Hurricane Katrina will cost the nation 400,000 jobs by the end of the year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. To put that in perspective, employment in New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast totaled about 775,000 at the end of 2004.
Investigators in Aruba said Wednesday they expect to finish draining a catch basin "within 24 hours" for clues that may lead them to missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway.
Investigators in Aruba searching for missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway began draining a pond Tuesday night.
In a continuing effort to save money, hotel chains are changing sheets for their customers less frequently, sometimes only weekly, according to a published report Tuesday.
Authorities searched the home Wednesday of a 17-year-old detained in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager more than two weeks ago.
A search near an Aruba beachfront hotel that began in the afternoon ended Tuesday night with apparently no sign of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, the Alabama student missing since May 30.
Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has ordered police to find those responsible for Saturday's twin bomb blasts that killed 22 people in a mainly Christian town on the island of Sulawesi.
Four days after thousands of Indonesian Muslims protested the alleged U.S. desecration of Islam's Holy Quran, the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta has closed until further notice, the State Department has said.
The U.S. Consulate in Karachi has been closed because of increased "security concerns," a statement on the consulate's Web site said.
Australia and the U.S. have expressed disappointment at the 30-month jail sentence handed to Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir for his part in the Bali bombing.
An Indonesian court has sentenced cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to 30 months in jail for involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed 202 people.
These 22 companies have appeared on our list every year since its 1998 inception.
Wegmans Food Markets employees have reason to smile, as the grocery chain topped Fortune magazine's eighth annual list of "100 Best Companies to Work For."
A Jakarta court has ruled that the terror trial of radical Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir can go ahead, despite earlier doubts on the strength of the charges.
Indonesian police have announced the arrest of four terror suspects wanted over the September 9 suicide blast outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, which killed 10 people.
New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer filed a lawsuit against San Diego-based health insurance company Universal Life Resources on Friday, alleging the company steered business to insurers in exchange for lucrative payoffs. The suit also alleges URL improperly inflated prices and passed the costs along to unwitting customers.
An explosion that tore through the lobby of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, injuring at least six people, was caused by a short circuit, Islamabad's chief of police told CNN.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard has downplayed an early revival of a defense pact with Indonesia, preferring instead to focus on what he calls the "huge achievement" of a peaceful presidential election in Australia's northern neighbor.
Arabic-language news channel Al-Jazeera has reported hostage-takers in Iraq are demanding Indonesia's government release Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir in exchange for two female hostages.
You walk into an upscale restaurant, and the waiter drops a tome as thick as a college biology textbook onto your table. Like that long-forgotten text, it's filled with foreign words and strange co...
An exclusive London restaurant stopped asking customers to sign a legal disclaimer if they order rare or medium-rare burgers after the practice came to the attention of the city's legal community.
As Indonesia awaits next month's formal announcement that its new president will be Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the former army general has pledged to seek an end to the bloody separatist war in Aceh province.
Indonesian police have released a man and his wife they had detained on suspicion of possible involvement in the Australian embassy bombing in Jakarta last week, according to an Australia media report Friday.
Indonesian police have released a security-camera video that captures the moment a suicide bomb exploded outside the Australian Embassy in Jakarta on Thursday.
At least one suicide bomber was responsible for carrying out Thursday's attack near the Australian Embassy in central Jakarta that killed nine people and injured more than 180 others, police officials said Friday.
Indonesian police received a text message warning of an attack on a Western embassy less than an hour before a suicide car bomber detonated in front of the Australian Embassy on Thursday, according to Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
A terror group linked to al Qaeda has purportedly taken responsibility for Thursday's car bombing in Jakarta which killed at least nine people and injured more than 180.
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During George W. Bush's keynote address to the 40th anniversary black-tie banquet of the American Conservative Union (ACU) last week, diners rose repeatedly to applaud the president's remarks.
An Indonesian court has slashed in half the jail term for imprisoned Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to 18 months, court officials say.
Indonesia has arrested a Malaysian over last year's bombing of the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta but kept his detention secret, police say.
Is there any room left in hotel stocks? Gains of 30 percent to 50 percent by big three hoteliers Starwood, Hilton and Marriott have helped power the group.
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In the first three weeks of October, junk fund investors, who have enjoyed 59% returns during the past 22 months, suffered a sobering flashback to the bad old days of 1990. As downgrades in Marriot...
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A crew that knows a lot about providing in-flight meals and renting hotel rooms now will try its hand at running an airline. After a three-month bidding war, NWA, parent of Northwest Airlines, acce...
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