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The story of the legendary Caribbean resort and a brief history of Jamaica is available in our bookshop. We bestow the title "oldest hotel in the world" on a hospitable place in Japan, dating back to the 8th century, called Keiunkan. Because it was founded in the Keiun era, the inn was thus named Keiunkan.

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At the same time, we have re-listed the Oriental Hotel Kobe, Japan. Two articles explain in German and in English what's going on during these extraordinary days. It is currently closed and will reopen in It is a rare jewel of the beginning art-deco, end of art nouveau Jugendstil. We are completing our book on the Paris Hotel Prince de Galles. More about it soon! The Half Moon Treasury is about to be launched. The smallest hotel with an overall floorspace of 53 m2, is the Eh'hausl hotel in Amberg, Germany.

Meanwhile, to secure the lead, the hotel increased its size from 6, rooms to 7,, with the construction of a Tower 2 Annex. Since , we have listed over hotels: We have researched the history of numerous individual hotels, recorded their history, and published it in our library.

There is a global demand to take history earnest, with a certain twist of entertainment. Our readers are educated, travellers. They want well researched information. So we are as diligent, profound and thoughtful as possible. We should not forget that we have inherited the responsibility to research and record the history of a famous hotel. It is an asset which needs to be developed with expert advise, carefully nourished and accompanied for ever. Andreas Augustin President famoushotels.

And the book is a big success — in fact a bestseller. The history of the hotel is an integral part of the hotel's identity. Famoushotels provides outstanding references on the truly great Hotels of the world. The research is thorough and the attractiveness of each book combines tradition and history in the settings of todays competitive environment.

Keep up the traditions, each book is a unique piece of history in its making. Cornelia Kausch was the general manager of the Corinthia Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest when famoushotels researched and produced the book about the history of this icon of Hungarian hospitality. The Imperial's pillared verandahs, dining rooms, tea lounges, Royal Ballroom, cool and verdant gardens have been witness to the venue of many celebrated encounters between the British and Indian aristocracy and gentry. If only walls could speak, here indeed was a repository of fascinating anecdotal material for authors of romantic and detective fiction.

It has made a huge impact coming from the most renowned keeper of grand traditions and heritage in luxurious hospitality. We are delighted about the research made in cooperation with famoushotels. It is with great pride that we have been welcoming and pampering guests since ! Opened in , this legend of Ukrainian hospitality has set all standards for tourism in the country.

The saying goes that he who does not appreciate the past has no future. Andreas Augustin - with the help of local professionals - made a deep professional research of the historic data of the Premier Palace and of Kyiv life, as well. After one year of solid work a complete history was established and the author had a clear picture of the development of hospitality industry in Ukraine. The elegant, individual book illustrated with unique historical photographs, published in , became a result of detailed work.

Our book by Andreas Augustin and his team is a great success with our guests. Our hotel has a long history and with it many interesting stories have been developed and collected over the years. A luxury brand has in most cases a longstanding tradition. History becomes part of the DNA. Famoushotels' support of our hotel school is a wonderful example of the commitment our alumni and industry friends have to our teaching mission. Thank you again for the thoughtful generousity. For every guest in a hotel it is interesting to know where they are and what has happened at the property.

We as the professionals on property need to make personal contact to and with our guests. History is most helpful in this respect. No one will really remember the color of the carpet in his room, but the history of the hotel and place where they stayed will be in most cases unforgettable, if someone tells you about it.

This adds an additional dimension — you are not only enabling your guests to experience a delightful hotel but also a part of the history of the city. It does of course also come with the great responsibility to maintain and preserve such an architectural treasure. The series of The Most Famous Hotels in the World make a wonderful set of chronological history of some unique trophy palaces. The team of The Most Famous Hotels in the World capture beautifully not only the history, but the vibrancy of many such intriguing organizations, in a well presented format. Our guests have passed much praise and credit on the book in relation to quality, presentation and content.

While researching our books about the most legendary temples of hospitality, we always come across interesting findings, more often than not linked to the hotel s we are researching. Enjoy a look into our sketch book. When his family migrated to the USA, he took a large portion of Austrian snide humour across the Atlantic.

At 30 he managed the largest hotel chain of the United States. Fluent in French, Spanish, Italian, and marginally fluent in Russian, Chinese and Japanese, Aloha Wanderwell — nomen est omen — was the first woman to drive around the world in a customised Model T Ford. The hotel business has seen many fine promoters and salesmen but perhaps none as creative as Ralph Hitz. Hitz does not rank with the other great hotelmen in the sense that he built an empire or left an estate. His period in the limelight lasted only 10 years, a period when the hotel business was at its low ebb in American history.

Hitz was a sales and promotion phenomenon, who was able to take ailing hotels and forecast within a few dollars what their sales and profits would be and then produce the sales he had forecast. Born in Vienna, Austria, on March 1, , Hitz started his career as an elevator boy at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna when he was fourteen after he'd ran away from school. His family eventually returned him to school as his father wanted him to be an architect. However, on a family trip to the United States he ran away from home three days after his family arrived in New York in He made his way to New Mexico and started as a busboy at a small hotel in Lumberton.

He spent the next nine years working in restaurants and hotels around the nation, then got into hotel management. Hitz's ability to turn a profit during the depression led the hotel's mortgage holder, Manufacturers Trust Company, to hiring him to control all of its hotels. During the s, his National Hotel Management Company was the largest chain of hotels. In Hitz published The Standard Practice Manuals for Hotel Operation , which covered every aspect of what he believed needed to be done in order to operate a hotel successfully.

The coffee shop was in instant success. Against the Name bands and ice shows were also a favorite with Hitz. He was the first, according to his son, Ralph Hitz, Jr pictured with his autograph; , to air condition a hotel dining room. Again a simple explanation: When the 2, room New Yorker Hotel prepared to open, Hitz was hired to manage the new venture, which opened on January 2, , weeks after the stock market crash. Guests checking into a Hitz-managed hotel were showered with attention.

Jones to room During the registration procedure the word loved most by the guest, his name, was used at least three times. Jones was stopping at the hotel. On the way to the room, the floor clerk was also let in on the fact that Mr. Jones, may I be of further service? Jones was feeling quite friendly toward Mr. Hitz and the hotel. A first-stay guest could expect even more of the red-carpet treatment: A guest who stopped at a Hitz hotel times became a member of the Century Club, his name engraved in gold on a gift notebook.

Statler started the idea of slipping the daily newspaper under the guest room door. Hitz tracked information about annual conventions for 3, organizations, sent weekly bulletins to each of his hotels, and lobbied to have conventions booked in the seven cities where the NHM hotels were located. Hitz recognized the importance of keeping his employees happy, paid competitive wages, sent gifts on special occasions, and protected the jobs of any employee with at least five years of service.

Hitz was the first manager to create a customer database. In the days before computers, Hitz maintained file cabinets with information on the preferences of thousands of guests. Another Hitz idea was a closed circuit radio system, similar to the in-house television channels in modern hotels, to advertise services in each of his hotels.

Tall people were given room with seven-foot beds. Sick patrons were personally visited by the floor managers. Guests leaving on an ocean trip were sent bon-voyage messages. While most hotels were requiring guests without luggage to pay in advance, a no-luggage guest at a Hitz hotel was provided with an overnight kit containing pajamas, toothbrush, toothpaste and shaving gear. Everyone in the Hitz hotels was trained and expected to be a supersalesman.

Room clerks were sent out over the country for one or more months each year to pick up business and get acquainted with their customers first-hand. A Hitz man was supposed to give his all for the hotel, and room clerks were expected to make calls within their own city during their off-hours. To insure compliance, each salesman kept a file card on each prospect and noted the time of the contract.

Hitz hired a 7-passenger plane to sales-blitz all cities of , and more in population. Selling went on all the time the guest was in the hotel. If he opened a closet door, there staring him in the face was a placard advertising one of the hotel services or a dining room.

Even the mirrors in the bathroom medicine cabinets held advertisements. Cesar Ritz, before the turn of the century, had sent private letters to his hotels describing the idiosyncracies, and special likes and dislikes of his guests. Hitz systematically collected the information he wanted on each guest and set up a guest history department.

This department, manned by a separate staff, kept guest records and followed the Hitz system of bringing the guest back to the hotel. Routine also was the sending of a letter to all first-time guests, to each guest who had stopped with the hotel twenty-five times, fifty times and one-hundred times. On the fiftieth visit the guest received a complimentary suite. With the hundredth visit an appropriate gift with a letter was sent. Birthday greetings and wedding anniversary felicitations went to all regular guests. Color signals on the record cards showed if there was to be no publicity, if the person was undesirable and not to be welcomed or if the address given was questionable.

Special credit cards for people important to the hotel were developed by Hitz management. Statler had given gold fringed cards to his friends which entitled them to the ultimate in service and accommodations. Hitz also gave a Gold Credit Card to persons who might influence convention or other group business. Anytime a Gold Card holder checked into the hotel he was extended special courtesies , and was at liberty to bedazzle wife and clients with a virtually unlimited credit. Hitz had a system for nearly everything. Like his former employer, the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, he offered active help to his staff.

Should an undesirable person attempt to register at a Hitz hotel, this little contingency was handled with adroitness and business acumen: To insure that guest rooms were really clean and in immaculate order, a full-time room inspector went from room to room checking on everything in the room.

His inspection was in addition to the O. Hitz preached guest service which was implemented by a carefully devised system. He had a setup for each hotel practice. A Hitz hotel was operated by the numbers. Bellmen were uniformed and drilled by a former trainer of Roxy Theatre ushers. Hitz demanded much from his employees and because it was a time of economic depression, he got superior performance. He also paid higher wages. His department heads were the highest paid in the business because he knew it was through them that his systems would be implemented.

Promotion was a part of the Hitz personality and he used it to promote himself as well as his hotels. In , he was offered the management of the Cincinnati Gibson Hotel which was having financial difficulties. Because he gave guests who paid regular rates the same superior service that was associated with deluxe rates, his hotels ran high occupancies. Bankers and insurance company officials who reluctantly got into the hotel business via foreclosed mortgages were eager for his services.

Hitz did more than promote, he introduced all-out standardization to hotelkeeping. His kitchens were fine examples of efficiency and uniformity. Controls of all kinds were installed and thorough-going accounting practices followed. The income from his restaurants, and such services as valet and guest laundry, were so high as to confound his contemporaries. What others had done, he could do better. A hard-driving man, he was also known for quick thinking and a well-developed sense of humor. To get a true picture of him, one had to see him making daily tours of his house, busily taking copious notes, and later, during the check-in hours, to see him in the lobby, a short, ebullient man personally greeting new arrivals in his almost incomprehensible Viennese accent.

Hitz became ill towards the end of and died of a heart attack at the Post Graduate Hospital in New York City on January 12, at the age of His funeral was held at the University Chapel before a gathering of hundreds of mourners. It is maintained to this day. London with its archives, public libraries and private collections provided all the rich material one needs to create a dazzling book. In the late s, we put up at The Savoy , researching the history of the city and digging into the archives of the hotel.

Susan Scott , the hotel's archivist, opened the archives at that time still at the hotel— gladly we scanned it all. We spent days and nights in it, before we — after weeks of research — returned the keys. D'Oyly Carte, a man with extensive experience of staging operettas, knew that he needed a star for the leading part in this hotel. So he engaged a young hotelier on the rise, somebody who had shown his talents in various hotels on the continent. The Savoy London's archives reveal some of the guest history cards of its famous patrons. Actress Marlene Dietrich, for example, expected 12 pink roses and a bottle of Dom Perignon upon arrival.

The other thing he was aware of was that fine food is the second most important thing. Hundreds of Britons left the island every year starving for the cuisine of France and the rest of the continent well, it wasn't only for the food. Lead by the Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, who had little to do as his mother, Queen Victoria, had no intention to give up her post until she died after 63 years of reign, the landed gentry and its entourage spent more time on vacation in spas abroad than on their own island.

They went to locations that had the three characters B, A and D as part of their name. No, he had no reminiscence about this little Swiss chap who spoke English remarkably well. But from now on he would remember him. So Ritz lured Auguste Escoffier to London; the chef who established the modern restaurant kitchen as we know it today. Escoffier came, cooked and conquered Britain. But he refused to learn English: The book was described as: In the summer of — the days of Gilbert and Sullivan, the heroes of English operetta — The Savoy opened its doors.

After a century of confusion behind the fall from grace of this celebrated hotelier and his faithful chef this book discloses the sober facts. The American Bar became the watering hole of prohibition refugees. This book talks about the people who created this legend. The personalities who make The Savoy one of the most successful and famous hotels in the world.

The stars of yesteryear parade through these pages and meet the names of today. The choice is yours. In , when it opened its doors, the London Hilton was a novelty, a sensation , a scandal perhaps, but certainly a temptation. The hotel revolutionised British hospitality. A suite on its upper floors became the most sought-after accommodation in the city on the River Thames. Moreover, for generations of young hoteliers the world over, London Hilton on Park Lane served as a training ground.

Open and enlarge it in a new window with a mouse-right-click. This book takes you from the first idea for the hotel to the first visit of Her Majesty, The Queen who was NOT amused to see that giant tower rising from the windows of Buckingham Palace. Three hundred photographs illustrate the progress of the hotel on Park Lane, from a luxurious skyscraper, filled with modern novelties, to one of the most famous hotels in the world. Before we board our train north, we arrive at Paddington station.

It's history started in , it was the wrold's first palatial terminus hotel. They arrived in the UK on 24 September From then on it was hard work all the way up, starting with a small hotel: You must try the Royal Scotsman , a superb little luxury train with overnight compartments and a restaurant car. It took me into the capital of Scotland. Edinburgh boasts two railway hotels; one, The Caledonian , which became my home for some while when I wrote its history. In fact, it was the Scottish author Roddey Martine photo who wrote most of it, while I enjoyed Edinburgh. I went out to explore the hidden layers of the ancient city, strolled through the streets and parks and finally fell in love with a Reverend, a certain Robert Walker, Skating on Duddingston Loch.

The gallery is in a park ideally situated between The Caledonian and the other grand hotel of the Scottish capital, The Balmoral. We also list, of course, all the legendary golf hotels of the rest of Scotland. The Caledonian — the book: By the end of the 19th century, Scotland had become the land of artists and poets, engineers and inventors. In Princes Street Station was to become the base for a grand hotel.

All hotels were chosen by the honorable jury, regardless of their geographical location, their brand, their political environment and their commercial success. Each week we put on new images from our vast archives. In case you find this Feuilleton Ritz-heavy, you couldn't be more right. Since the early s, the name Ritz is simply the better word for luxury. This time you can even take it home.

Prices are astonishingly un-Ritzy. Prince Bertie, the Prince of Wales. At least, of some of us. We've got the answers. Hungry for more Ritz on stage? The spectacle is written and directed by Beni Kreuzer left , a native from the region. We are bringing back our coveted bestseller The Raffles Treasury — following the request of our faithful readership. An oasis in the heart of the city of Yangon.

The Strand's story is available at our bookshop. Pera Palace Istanbul is no longer a Jumeirah hotel. Pinar Kartal Timer is no longer general manager. Agatha Christie's secret still remains unsolved. Chinese hospitality expert Professor Zhang Guangrui answers all our questions. Letter from Adrian Mourby. Greetings from Europe, the cradle of ancient customs and the inventors of the modern world.

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This was often a quit pro quo, in return presents or favours were expected. Influenced by Buddhism or out of conscience, Chinese people in the ancient time believed in Karma and were willing to do good work and show mercy to others. For the ordinary, hardly any inns for travelers en route could be found outside big towns. So, the locals were more willing to offer a place for over-night stay and some foods free if they were asked on their ability.

Very often, the host might offer some food or other necessities for the visitor on the way. Earliest western traveller in China in the th century: He was the first European to set foot on Chinese soil. From our book People's Grand Hotel Xian. As you know, for a long time, China had been an agricultural society, and the traditional rural lifestyle prevailed everywhere in the country. Some of the traditional customs have remained. Home is the most suitable place to show true affections and friendship. If relatives and friends come to visit, you should have them at home, just like your own family members, and prepare meals at home in person or help might be offered by your neighbors.

Of course, the guests may never complain about the condition offered. If there is not enough room indeed, the host might stay overnight at somebody else place for the guest convenience. Without specific reasons to be understood, family affection might alienate, or good relationship might be broken off. That is why there are very few inns or hostels in the country. And, of course, that is not the case any more in the big cities in modern time.

Todays pilgrimage of Mary and Joseph seeking shelter and a save place for their child can be witnessed in the heart of Europe every day. Not Joesph and Mary, but Vaslav and Romula , and their 19 month old daughter Kyra , were looking for shelter. The most famous ballet dancer of his time, the 'God of Dance', Vaslav Nijinsky , found himself and his little family stranded in Vienna. In , war had broken out. The dancer and his family fled from Russia to Budapest, Hungary, escaping the turmoil of their home country.

Nijinsky's wife Romola was a Hungarian socialite, the daughter of a politician and a celebrated actress. Their daughter Kyra had been born in Vienna in , during peaceful days. In Budapest, they were interned and put under house arrest until their departure. They were finally permitted to go to New York for an American tour. They boarded the Orient Express at Budapest Keleti Station, but on their way they stopped at Vienna , where Nijinsky had so many fond memories. They made it to the inner city, where they entered the Hotel Bristol.

Janaury , he registered at the hotel. That was the day when he had asked the owning manager of the Hotel Bristol in Vienna, Arthur Wolf for a room, but told him right away that he wouldn't be able to pay for it. Wolf ordered the family some tea, offered them a seat in a drawing room and took the dancing star aside: Let me tell you one thing: That means, that you should not — by all means — NOT be in Vienna. BUT let me assure you that because you have given us so much pleasure with your performances, you will be my guest.

Order anything you like. Stay as long as you wish. You can pay — or not — when this terrible war is over. Officially, Nijinksy and his family stayed for two months in Vienna. In March , they left Vienna and continued their journey. The war took until In , after a tour of South America, the family settled in St. Moritz in peaceful Switzerland. Nijinsky had become increasingly mentally unstable. It was simly too much stress to manage everything himself. His mental condition deteriorated; Nijinsky was diagnosed with schizophrenia in Nijinsky returend to Vienna where he spent over two years in a mental ayslum.

For the next 30 years, he was in and out of institutions, never dancing again in public. A shadow of himself, the former great dancer was brought back to life in , again in Vienna, when he stayed at the Hotel Sacher. But that's an other story. He lived until His daughter Kyra visited the Hotel Bristol again in , leaving a note of appreciation in the guestbook of the hotel. Not just travel, Indian royalty were also creating second homes in the international playfields of the rich and famous or in the exclusively secluded places that kept them away from the public eye.

Maharani Sita Devi Sahib of Baroda set up a second home in Monaco with her second husband, Maharaja Pratap Singh Gaekwad of Baroda, who was the eighth richest man in the world and the second richest Indian Prince at the time. London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Switzerland were destinations the Royals travelled to for work, but essentially for pleasure and leisure. A look back into history and into the lives of the Indian Royalty shows how they were adept at blending the Indian spirit with western sensibilities.

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The Royalty was not only building up a huge aspirational value back home but also creating matchless and enormously successful business opportunities for some of the top class brands globally. The original Louis Vuitton cabin trunk of the private secretary of the Maharajah of Alwar. When the Indian Royalty travelled abroad, they travelled in style. Even their luggage planning was a big affair.

Bespoke, monogrammed luggage with the Royal family's insignia, were specially crafted out of finest leather by the likes of Louis Vuitton. I recall conceptualizing and shooting for the set of Guest postcards we were developing during my Oberoi years. For one of the postcards we wanted to show our smart Bell boy pushing a superbly buffed trolley stacked with Louis Vuitton suitcases.

We approached Tikka Shatrujit Singh, the scion of the Royal family of Kapurthala in Punjab, who graciously loaned to us his family heirloom luggage for the shoot. The large to very large pieces were works of art, beautifully created by the House of LV for the King in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was quite a Francophile and loved the Palace of Versailles so much that he ordered his main palace to be modelled after it. It is said that Jagatjit Singh owned at least 60 pieces of bespoke luggage made especially for him by Louis Vuitton to hold his clothes, swords, turbans, suits, shoes and the elaborate traditional dresses.

Amongst scores of his other purchases, the Baroda ruler got Louis Vuitton to make a Torino suitcase with toiletry accessories in vermeil and ivory, a shoe trunk and a tea case, that proved to be an elegant and practical accompaniment for his hunting expeditions. Maharaja Hari Singh, the last ruling Maharaja of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, who was a polo aficionado, was ordering Louis Vuitton to make special trunks for his clothes and equipment, including one to hold his mallets, in the year In the seven months between June and December , Hari Singh had placed an order for 38 pieces of luggage with specific purpose marked for them.

For instance, there were special boxes for polo outfits, twelve boxes for drying cigarettes, a shoe-maintenance kit, a toiletries kit that was superimposed on a tea set. The toiletries kit was uniquely elaborate. It consisted of 50 items in silver and was used to hold products for personal hygiene from brushes to bottles, soaps and razors. It also served as an extensively layered jewellery box. Being an Indian royal was all about the finer things in life, cultured discernment and a predilection for arts, letters and fashion. The exposure the royal class had to the West, cultivated in them love for western music and arts.


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Notably, Rani Vijaya Devi, the Thakurani of Kotda-Sangani, was not only adept at Carnatic music and dance but was also a Piano playing virtuoso; so much that she won a fellowship at the Trinity College of Music, London. She became the founder and president of the International Music and Arts Society. Not only in music, arts, fashion and jewellery, the imperialists in India were adopting western lifestyle in their daily life too.


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The queens would go hunting wearing breeches; the royalty began the use of chairs and table for dining, and started to eat in the finest porcelain and china from the illustrious makers in Europe. Their tastes were so refined that they were buying mirrors in Venice, porcelain in Dresden; besides clothes and jewellery in Paris and other style-bearing ports in Europe. The European houses of fashion and style returned the love and adulation by creating works inspired by India.

For instance, in the world of fragrance, Maison Boucheron proclaimed its love for the palaces and royal gardens of Jaipur by creating the eponymous perfume Boucheron Jaipur. The first three Rolls-Royce cars owned by the Rajpipla royal family. Maharani Gayatri Devi, with her refined sartorial sense, natural beauty and inherent grace, was re-garded as one of the most beautiful women in the world by the czars of fashion and style internationally.

Among her other interests was her love for wheels so much that she is credited for importing the first Mercedes-Benz W to India. Such was the de-mand of luxury cars in regal India that Rolls-Royce were delivered to the country between and There is a rather delectable lore told around the pride of Indian Royalty and how sometimes the international luxury brand makers failed to recognize the might, purchasing power and opulence of this set. The story goes that the Maharaja of Alwar was insulted at a Rolls Royce showroom during one of his foreign travels.

At one time, the Maharaja asked Vandyk to set up a studio at his palace in Patiala. Indira Devi, the Maharani of Cooch Behar which was considered as one of the most westernized royal houses of the time, had a fetish for shoes. Salvatore Ferragamo, the legendary Italian shoe designer, reveals in his Autobiography about the time the Queen ordered more than a hundred pairs of shoes. She even sent him pearls and diamonds from her collection to create a special pair. Both the queens were trendsetters and heralded as fashion icons; with magazines like Vogue and well-known photographers like Andre Durst, Man Ray and Cecil Beaton clambering to get their time and attention.

Both royal men and women wore priceless, precious pieces all over their personage, starting from rare gems encrusted in their crowns down to expensive trinkets that adorned their feet. With their leaning towards appearing modern and to portray their western sensibilities, the Indian royalty began commissioning renowned designers in Europe to create bespoke items of jewellery.

The Patiala Necklace is still considered the most expensive piece of jewellery in the world. The Maharaja had Cartier make jewellery for his queen Rani Yashoda Devi, who would often be seen wearing beautiful necklaces with rubies, pearls and diamonds. The Maharaja also instructed Maison Boucheron to design and create jewellery for him. In again, one day the King brought along a casket full of stones — a mind-boggling carats of diamonds and carats of emerald and commissioned Boucheron to make designs for him. Die Presse, Austria, April - Link to newspaper.

Der Fremdenverkehr war noch nicht Devisenbringer. Es kam kein Geld rein, also musste Mann raus: Das ist wie Alain Ducasse beim Riesenrad. Fortan sollte Ritz sein Hotelier sein. Ritz wurde ein Star. Das fand Oscar Wilde gar nicht gut. Dabei entfernte er die gesamte Einrichtung. April unter den Hammer. Der Katalog ist online unter http: Particular locomotives had to be constructed to manage the climb. This mountain train passage became the role model for similar tasks around the globe. This part of the railroad is 41 km long, climbs over 16 viaducts including several two-storey , 15 tunnels and arched bridges.

It grew into a famous resort. Today it is a mundene desserted place, awaiting a new lease of life. Er kommt aus Wien. Die Passagiere geniessen wohl auch die Aussicht. Wohlmeinend gauktelt uns der Kultur. Semmering vor, dass am Zauberberg alles in Ordnung ist. Es wird rechtzeitig dunkel, ehe das kritische Auge die Details wahrnimmt. Den einzigen Patienten, den es beherbergt, ist es selbst.

Meere, 2 Stunden von Wien. Die Investoren — ein kasachisches Konsortium. Das funktioniert dann so: Sie wieder abzunehmen hat nicht gelohnt. Damit kein Irrtum aufkommt: Alle ein dramatischer Schwanengesang auf eine Region. In der Tradition des Berges war zu diesem Zeitpunkt das Hotel bereits geschlossen. Destination unbekannt, die Zeitreise findet vorerst nicht mehr statt.

Im gleichen Besitz steht das bekannte Kurhaus Dr. Es hat den Konkurs angemeldet und ist ebenfalls geschlossen. Im Panhans wird gearbeitet. Er stinkt zum Himmel. In Abwesenheit von wenigsten vier Sterne, bitte! Mangels Angebot verirrt sich auch unsere work-life-balanced Society an ihren Home-Office-Days nicht hierher. Aber es gibt Hoffnung.

Die private 6-Schlafzimmer Villa Antoinette ist mit Euro 1. Anzunehmen, dass die Schwindsucht geheilt ist, ist ein Irrtum. Sie ist schleichend am Semmering angekommen. Er ist auch noch nicht am Ziel. Die Sehnsucht hat zur Zeit woanders Endstation. Semmering bietet ein ambitioniertes Sommerprogramm. Renommierte Namen der Wiener Szene treffen auf Newcomer. Das Publikum reist in der Mehrzahl extra von Wien an.

Das ist wahre Treue. Anderseits, so eine Kulisse gibt es nicht einmal im Burgtheater. Auflage , S. Hotelnamen haben einen besonderen Klang. Der Hotelname ist eine Erfindung der Neuzeit. Wir lesen in Exodus 4: Das Wort Hotel kam noch nicht vor. Jahrhundert seinen Palast baute. Mittlerweile haben die meisten aufgegeben, sich auf den good old Earl zu berufen. Imperial ist auch so ein Klassiker. Wien, Neu Delhi und Tokio, um genau zu sein. Das war aber weder in der Habsburgermonarchie, in Indien noch in Japan der Fall. Dezember nie dort. Man muss nur an den Namen Metropole, Grand oder Palast Hotel denken und schon entsteht in uns ein Bild von Opulenz und Herrlichkeit, nach der sich mancher sehnt.

Conrad Hilton war ein Amerikaner, der einer der ersten Ketten seinen eigenen Namen verlieh. Das Sacher in Wien hat auch so ein Kuvert im Archiv. Traditional continental European setting of a tabel for a menu, consisting of a first course, soup, fish, main course and dessert. Reduce at your own liking, but try to avoid more flatware on the table.

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The Strand Hotel in Yangon — opened by the Sarkies brothers in — has set standards in Burma Myanmar since its opening. Stylebook has become part of the Classic Edition books. It reflects the style of the house, its habits in setting tables, presenting amenities and its tradition of service and related rituals. The history of the Hotel Imperial brought me back to this hotel which I had been visiting since the s. Happy personal memories were merged with professional research, carried out in India and internationally with devotion and attention to detail.

My personal Imperial saga had started about Back in those days, I remember the hotel being a dark and almost dilapidated site, but buzzing with business. A shaky Ambassador taxi transported me from the airport to the city. Nobody was there to greet me at the hotel. Two decades is a long time, however. When I came back to The Imperial, a member of the front office staff welcomed me at the airport terminal; cooling towels were handed out before the new Mercedes-S class took off.

The Sikh doormen traditionally guarding the hotel opened the door of the limousine and greeted me with a friendly "Welcome to The Imperial! The corridors were adorned with thousands of pieces of art. Researching the history of the hotel, I had to go back to the day when New Delhi was declared the capital of India. That was the year Slowly I worked my way up to the day the hotel came into being.

That was between The Singh family had built it, but rented it out to the Oberoi family, who ran the place. Nehru centre held important political meetings at the hotel. In the s a member of the owning family took the helm of The Imperial: The red upholstery is still threadbare to the point of decrepitude.

Most of the light bulbs are burned out, the lamps are delightfully bizarre. Likewise, the bellboys understand nothing at all, yet their philosophical air is irresistible. Jasdev Singh Akoi took his place in the driving seat of the company, just as easily as he slides into his splendid Jaguar Mark III, model. With his natural sense for elegance and speed he became the long missing visionary leader of the good old Imperial. With the help of his wife Mira he worked seven days a week, 18 hours a day. Wing after wing of The Imperial was renovated.

No part of the hotel could be closed as the income was needed to pay for the work. Temporary lobbies had to be created, and electricity transformers had to be moved without being turned off. There was still very much of the 'old' in The Imperial. The Imperial has added a new wing but, realising that its history gives the building a character no other Delhi hotel can match, room rates have been revised so that the guests pay more to stay in the old wing, along with the ghosts of Nehru and Jinnah. Meanwhile, Jasdev Singh Akoi had begun to collect art and antiques, buying from the palaces, collecting some 5, pieces of art.

Singh Akoi decided to combine hotel and museum in one. A new floor was added, the number of rooms increased by 57 units. In he proudly invited guests to the first opening of his 'Great Exhibition of Imperial Art' at the hotel. His masterpiece was still to come. Never before had a restaurant in India such a feed-back. Acclaim came from all over the world. A correspondent of the New York Times wondered: A confident Thai lady with the sweet-sounding name Veena Arora became the chef of The Spice Route, the first female chef of a restaurant of note in India.

Part of her success is a collection of home cooking recipes. Here the charismatic Muslim leader Jinnah founded Pakistan. Gobind Akoi , the son of Jas Singh Akoi, became the new executive director of the hotel in His father elegantly stepped aside and handed his dream, his vision over to his son. He found Rishi Kapoor , who took over the part of strategic planning.

Soon The Imperial was the first hotel in India to install Fidelio, a hotel operating software. The Italian restaurant 'San Gimignano' became an other India's sensation. In Frenchman Pierre Jochem became the first foreigner at the helm of The Imperial since the s. Pierre's persistence often needed a good portion of sense of humour: That's a fairly old model; and the maid said. Yes, indeed, but it doesn't matter, when it breaks down we have a second one. On the first of January we start to vacuum the hotel on one side, at the end of the year we finish at the other.

It took me four months to make sure that every room was vacuumed every day. The Imperial became the first hotel in India to hire music designer Marc Barrott to create special moods in different sections of the hotel. In the kitchen leading European chefs motivated their Indian colleagues. Flower arrangements all over the hotel were inspired by Strasbourg florist Groll.

The housekeepers of competing hotels were seen once a week to copy the set up. Chic wooden furniture was placed on the lush lawns in front of the terrace. Today 21 Art Deco at sq. These and all the other name-suites are among the grandest in the country, providing a home away from home to Her Majesty, the Queen of the Netherlands or Sir Richard Branson , who arrived on Virgin wings with of his closest friends in tow.

By the hotel defended the second highest room rate in the country. The Imperial's turn-around became a synonym of economic success, its management considered one of the most disciplined and professional of all Indian companies. The company is a reflection of the changing times in India: Photographers arrived from all over the world to shoot the hotel. More and more magazines published articles about the magnitude of The Imperial's Art collection.

Ein Hotelier als Kavalier — vom Scheitel bis zur Zehe

The Museum Hotel concept was born. What Jas Singh Akoi had conceived had become a triumphant reality. The Imperial's symmetric design originally encouraged the idea to have the main entrance from the terrace, but in fact the entrance was always from the side to retain the serene setting of the tranquil lawns in front of the hotel. From a sleeping legend The Imperial turned into one of the most famous hotels in the world. The news of the success of The Imperial travelled so far, that a leading American university entertained a case study on the ' fastest turnaround in the hotel industry '.

What went missing in most hotels had been carefully preserved at the Imperial: While other hotels have closed their doors and released all old staff to reopen years later with a shining new interior and brand new software called employees, The Imperial has held on to its home-grown staff. And the old staff has joined the new management team with German quality driven for a while by resident manager Martin Kleinmann in the turnaround of the century. Back to the beginning of the story: The question if I would like to write the history of the hotel was rhetorical.

Of course I wanted to do it. It was in fact an honour. Producing a book about the Grand Hotel Royal was probably as exciting as rebuilding it. And both activites brought a number of people back to the stage of this Hungairan legend, who had been working for this grand hotel in the past.

The magic spell of their 'good old Royal' did the trick. Some in tears of joy. Bringing an old structure closed for ten years back to life is a challenge for builders, managers and staff. The Maltese Alfred Pisani added an extra twist to the task: He meticulously rebuilt the original structure, brick by brick, adding modern elements only where absolutely necessary.

In the Corinthia Group , a hotel company from the island of Malta in the Mediterranean, managed by its charismatic and energetic owner Alfred Pisani acquired the Grand Hotel Royal in Budapest. The hotel had been closed for ten years. The structure of the building was over years old, twice destroyed by devastating fires, twice rebuilt cheaply. The only solution was to rebuild the whole house. In total 59, square metres of construction, essentially entailing the total redevelopment of the historic Grand Hotel Royal, were waiting.

In the course of restoration, the utmost care had to be taken to recreate the original atmosphere of the Royal. Traditional architecture and modern style were blended to achieve a unique harmony. The Spa's historic pool dates back to A proud Alfred Pisani, chairman and chief executive of IHI addressed his guests at a gala dinner in the magnificently restored 19th century ballroom. It was the first activity the ballroom had seen for decades. Many more such occasions would follow. A new hotel was born or, rather, the Grand Hotel Royal was back in place.

His connection to the hotel has a symbolic value: Here Hungarians saw the first moving Lumire pictures, sipped their first five o'clock high tea; and rubbed shoulders with the international visitors of the great jubilee exhibition of It was the home to all leading Hungarian artists. Surrounded by theatres and close to the Royal Opera House, its guest list includes the greatest dancers, singers and opera divas. Coriinthia founder Alfred Pisani left explains how he renovated the hotel. Commemorating years of history famoushotels. Gabor Flesch , the front office manager — while arranging a booking for star tenor Luciano Pavarotti — recalls the opening time: It was the time when we were fighting bugs in our new computer system Opera.

He stayed with us. It is the largest orginally kept hall of its kind in a hotel in Hungary, and it takes some travelling to find a similar one in Europe. Ever since the hotel has been booming. At one occasion fourteen leading statesmen from five continents, including the Presidents of South Africa and Chile, and the Prime Ministers of Britain, Hungary, New Zealand, Romania and Sweden gathered for the sixth Progressive Governance summit in the Valletta Conference Room, meeting with over leading strategists, policy makers and politicians.

Adrian Ellis , general manager of the Grand Hotel Royal, the blond lady in the background is Cornelia Kausch , former general manager and spiritual mother of the history and book project. The magic spell of the 'good old Royal' did the trick. Kausch enjoys a chat with Andras Gunst , a former employee of the old Royal. To the left the author of the book, Andreas Augustin. Eberlein presented his predictions of the impact of air travel on American cities. Eberlein foresaw a proliferation of roof gardens on top of large hotels to provide pleasing views for guests.

Aerial taxicabs will circle like vultures over the hotel waiting for a doorman to signal one of them to alight and pick up a departing guest. In order to understand how the pineapple became the symbol for hospitality, we must return to Newport, Rhode Island in the 17th century. It was founded in by settlers seeking religious freedom.

Along with these commodities, captains would bring home pineapples whose exotic shape and sweetness made them a rare delicacy in the colonies. Before emails or cellphones, sea captains would place the pineapples on their gate posts or over their doorways to inform neighbors that they had returned. Colonial hostesses would set a fresh pineapple as a centerpiece of their dining table when visitors joined their families in their homes. Later, carved wooden pineapples were placed over the doorways of inns and hotels to represent hospitality.

The practice has continued to the present and frequently one sees the pineapple icon in hotels, restaurants and homes to signal an atmosphere of hospitality and welcome. Hokusai, the great Japanese master printmaster, once wrote: Yet of all I drew by my seventieth year there is nothing worth taking into account. At seventy-three years I partly understood the structure of animals, birds, insects and fishes, and the life of grasses and plants. And so, at eighty-six I shall progress further; at ninety I shall even further penetrate their secret meaning, and by one hundred I shall perhaps truly have reached the level of the marvelous and divine.

When I am one hundred and ten, each dot, each line will possess a life of its own. After unearthing the long lost original building plans of The Raffles Hotel, thus saving Singapore's most famous hotel from demolition, our reputation for uncompromising historical research quickly spread. Upon arrival I coined the sentence that would open the book: It starts at the airport and comes to an end five miles away in the centre of bustling Hong Kong.

In the Pen had placed the largest single order in hotel history with Rolls Royce , buying eight Brewster Green Silver Shadows ever since then they have bought On the way from the airport the driver would present you with a cocktail list and order your favourite concoction by car-telephone. When you arrived at the hotel it was waiting for you. Il colore del tuo sorriso. Der Palazzo am See.

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