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5 Unique Hotels Around The World

Uhm. Nope. And yes. A hotel provides you with a place to sleep, but here the similarities stops. A lot of you were impressed with the Rotel, the rolling hotel from our “Weird Stuff From Around The World” post and the places we showed you in this post about amazing hotels. 1. Want to spend the night with Toby and Sweet Willy? 2. Ice, Ice Baby. The Aurora at your door step. Cuddle up in warm furs while a wonderland of ice surrounds you. No ice cubes needed in the drinks at the bar of the Icehotel – they come in ice glasses. 3. As the Icehotel is only open during winter in the Capsule hotel you only can stay during summer. 4. Normally people travel to stay at a hotel. Why get mobile when your hotel does it for you? A room with a view. the Everland in Paris. Romance and relaxation guaranteed – the Everland in Switzerland’s Yverdon, by the Neuchatel lake 5. You won’t find many true four star hotels in Chile. 11 new hotel wonders.

Yas Viceroy Hotel in Abu Dhabi.

11 new hotel wonders

See more photos of the hotels at BudgetTravel.com. Radisson Blu Waterfront Hotel in Stockholm, Sweden Marina Bay Sands in Singapore Southern Ocean Lodge in Kangaroo Island, Australia Axis Viana Hotel in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Hotels with awe-inspiring architecture Each suite at Hotel Consolación has a sliding glass wall that opens onto a private terraceThe Southern Ocean Lodge consists of 21 suites cascading down a windswept slopeThe Yas Viceroy Hotel was the first to be built straddling a Formula 1 racetrack (Budget Travel) -- If the best architecture aims at eternity, to paraphrase famed English architect Christopher Wren, then these new hotels are bound to be immortal.

The 11 hotels on our list all opened within the last four years, and each is an example of awe-inspiring design in its own right. And, even better, it won't cost a fortune to spend a night in these architectural wonders. See more photos of the hotels Bella Sky Comwell (Copenhagen, Denmark) Hoteliers strengthen their destination marketing efforts. With leisure travel expected to increase in 2012, hoteliers around the world are pairing up with local and global destination marketing organizations, as well as beefing up their own efforts, to reel in the extra business.

Hoteliers strengthen their destination marketing efforts

New York-based Loews Hotels, for example, dropped out of the AAA Tour Books, which were major resources for destination marketing in the past, in favor of more influential communications from groups that could provide stronger messages such as local chambers of commerce. It’s a new approach for the hotel owner and operator, said Bill Tucker, CEO of Agency212, a New York-based advertising company that works with Loews. “We are very much involved with the local chambers of commerce in our markets.

A good deal of that is convention traffic, but a surprisingly higher percentage is leisure,” Tucker said. Get the full story at HotelNewsNow.com April 11, 2014 Priceline wants to be loved Priceline CEO Darren Huston sees many more opportunities for Priceline going forward. Read more. Revinate - The New Standard for Guest Satisfaction.