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Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. I received a bunch of files and copied hundreds of pages. Slowly the history of Hanoi and the story of the beautiful capital of Tonkin unfolded. In my phantasie, I virtually met the old colonialists. I concentrated on the s. Alongside him, another key protagonist rose from the mists of history: But when did they open it? After meticulous archival research, I was able to prove that in and the Hanoi Hotel was the only notable hotel in the city. Slowly I narrowed it down and continued to work myself through time.

Parallel to my research, our UK-based historian Andrew Williamson started unearthing historic newspaper articles. We concentrated on and Suddenly the hotel appeared. It was mentioned in every guide book, in newspapers and travel articles. He had been clearly impressed: From now on the search went backwards. To cut a long story short: Ducamp became its first general manager. We found files of him applying for the permission to install bow arch lamps in front of his hotel. Now our search concentrated on related material like photographs, luggage stickers, postcards, the usual stuff.

Read more about him here. Slowly I was able to paint a picture with figures and facts. The book took on shape. In this volume you now found the characters of the past parading through the pages in the glimmering light of a new rising wealth, created by an unbelievable rubber boom. I remember that my editor never allowed me to publish the sentence: We discovered a charming link to the Paris Hotel Scribe , which today is a sister-hotel of the Metropole. Both are managed by Sofitel, both hotels can today claim that they are 'historically listed' as the premiere venues for "moving pictures".

The Scribe even housed the world premiere, while the Metropole was Indo-China's first venue to show movies. Suddenly astonishing printed material appeared and we started getting an pictorial impression of the hotel in the past. We were able to prove that the Metropole was visited by the great actors visited by the great actorCharlie Chaplin and his wife Paulette Goddard. After about two years we were able to establish the first fine press kit with an extensive history section; the hotel's first PR manageress Sarah Grant helped building it.

Authors like Somerset Maugham and Graham Greene and many others had been spedning time at the hotel. The father of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh had wonderful stories connected with the hotel. During the Vietnam war Jane Fonda spent weeks in her suite at the hotel. She, like many others, was seeking refuge at the hotel's bunker which is now going to be reopened. It will soon be a sight at the hotel.

It has quite a lot of stories connected to it. Joan Baez cheered the spirits by singing in the hotel's bunker during US air raids. Touching the s, 60s and 70s we entered a field of research were we could relate to people who had actuylly been working at the hotel during that time. They were still alive. Former staff turned out to visit me at the hotel for an interview. They brought their memoirs along with photographs and we had a great time reviving the good old past.

Over the next years — together with the hotel — famoushotels. Today the hotel has suites named after these outstanding personalities. We have supplied the photographic documents and the related stories. We are proud to have such a hotel partner making so elegantly use of our research material. The old photograph of the hotel which I had found in the hotel in the beginning has been carefully restored and coloured.

It graces the cover of our pages hard-case book. The first edition appeared in Ever since we have updated every edition with new material. While we are speaking the next edition appears — and only last week we had the pleasure of acquiring another great photographic document — for the book's next edition.

Like in every other book's new edition we add new findings such as this front page showing men in air raid shelters outside the Metropole. The sudden demand for fresh bread on Sundays no London baker would provide fresh bread on the day of the Lord led to the employment of a baker from Vienna, a tradition that has been upheld for over a hundred years. This baker brought with him the delights of Viennoiserie, from crisp dark rye bread to rolls and croissants, and the mouth-watering delights of Austrian cakes, strudels and pastries.

They were indeed called Ritz's Carlton - Restaurant. It means to put on your finest dress, a dress suitable to be worn at a Ritz Carlton hotel. The song was sung, danced and immortalized by Fred Astaire. Your answers confirmed our path we have been following for the past decades. As many of you know, upon completion of a book, we are translating our research results into smashing exhibitions. We call them The Path of History. Here you can learn more about our global exhibition work in a 2'16" video. Dabei kommt es zu einem interessanten Regieeinfall.

Noch eine Vollpreiskarte an der Abendkasse. Peymann ist sichtlich gern in Wien und freut sich wenn man ihn erkennt Jessas, sind Sie wieder da?!? Er ist ganz der Theatermacher und — Burgtheaterdirektor. Und es gibt noch 65 Karten! Ich hatte diese Idee auch schon mal. Das Publikum sieht tatenlos zu.

Was soll man auch machen. Dann ein weiterer Hustenanfall. Er entschuldigt sich zum ersten Mal.

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Was soll ich tun…? Die Leute lieben ihn. Doch was hat er nur? Wo ist der Requisiteur? Peymann liest weiter, rutscht unruhig hin und her, hustet neuerlich. Dann eine Stimme aus dem Off. Ein wirklich ehrliches Angebot. Er liest 75 Minuten ununterbrochen weiter. Ein Seufzer der Erleichterung war durch das Publikum gegangen. Ein witziger Regieeinfall — dachten alle. Diese Zeile fiel mir auf: The Most Famous Hotels in the World display splendid exhibitions, based on meticulous historic research.

Exhibitions are the result of our research, displaying carefully chosen excerpts of our books. In the afternoons, at 5 P. Badminton and deck tennis courts were available, too. Why do I tell you all this? Because history is the source of our future. The Galle Face Hotel dates back to More about it here, and soon. Not many hotels are as old as the Galle Face. It is certainly big enough, open all year round, but only 20 years old.

Should we wait until ? What do you think? Write to me please. Who founded a South-East Asian city and had a hotel named after him some 70 years later? Vivaldi couldn't have named it better in German - harbour city sounds like popular fast-food. If you have a minute, why not give it a chance? Imagine all this within the same complex of buildings — there is a wedding with guests at the Sofitel Xian convention centre, in the theatre a famous personality addresses people, at the two Sofitel Xian hotel buildings and at the Grand Mercure and the Mercure over beds are occupied.

In the gardens, the occasional visitor poses for a photograph next to a year old tree. Two butleresses caught in action. He ordered the construction of a city-sized mausoleum guarded by a life-sized terracotta army of - we are still guessing - some thousand soldiers. However, he buried them all, and so nobody knew. And those who knew were buried too. It is a palace. The architect of the hotel, Hong Qing — , was so famous, that he was invited to participate in the construction of the Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao.

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India has been viewed with a lot of awe and amazement by the entire world for myriad reasons. The colours, the sights, the smells, the cuisine — presented in a million different forms — have enthralled connoisseurs from the time the first set of travelers set foot on this ancient land. Everything about India, right from its spiritual mooring to its year old history has caught the imagination of people in unusual ways — from astonishment to appreciation, evoking surprise, shock, curiosity and wonderment, all at the same time. But most of all, India has been considered the land of maharajahs, elephants and snake-charmers; all of which is absolutely true.

Indian Royalty, by the extent and value of treasures they have possessed, by the sheer show of their opulence, by the grandiose manner in which they have lived, have been the subject of interest not just of the common folk, but essentially of luxury brand makers and service providers. Archives mention that Indian queens developed a fondness for western clothes and started ordering for their trousseau in Europe by the late Nineteenth century, an outcome of western education entering the royal households. An inclination towards the western life — be it in clothes, other items of use or travelling to Europe, brought in integration with the international society for the royalty.

So it can be safely said that the foundation for style, haute living, grand hospitality, luxe brand affiliation and rich hotel tradition was laid early enough in those years of Imperialdom! The train was full. There was a flutter of excitement in the air. All and sundry seemed to be travelling to Vienna or to Budapest. He also watched another man heaving a solid wooden box from a cart into the luggage car. Upon entering sleeping car No. One was flaunting the words L. I am going to Budapest to furnish a show at the Somossy Orpheum. A five hour programme on 1 May, with a ball after the show where the whole staff will take part in Hungarian national clothing.

From 10 May, where we show our moving pictures.

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The Grand Hotel Royal opened in as the largest hotel on the continent: Next door laid a superb spa. 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. Reopened in , the Grand Hotel Royal is a sparkling star among the grand hotels of Europe. You should book now for winter, Christmas is almost sold out! The dry air of the dessert is perfect to spend some weeks there.

Mornings at the Mena House are tennis or golf; mornings are swimming; mornings are a cup of fresh peppermint tea at the lobby. A brisk walk up the ramp to the Great Pyramid is a perfect exercise. In addition we were challenged to verify its correct age and a legend: The history of the Mena House is the story of modern Egypt. Read the "Making of You can directly book your hotel here. Austria is currently the hotspot of Europe, Vienna its capital. In a series of totally different approaches we have portraied the most famous hotels of the city, telling the story of Vienna and its legendary lodging places.

Our correspondent Adrian Mourby has visited an other Austrian town, Innsbruck, the capital of the province of Tyrol. He stayed in a hotel where Mozart had spent the night, too. Here is his story. Grand cultural festivals such as Verona, Glyndebourne or Salzburg are approaching their peak.

However, there is a multitude of smaller art festivals, such as Thalhof , or Sommer. It sometimes involves a visit to the famous Hotel Sacher , the most important exhibitions of each season, public art, architecture, private views to studios and galleries or just a museum visit.

Below you see just a small selection of what our Reading Room has to offer — over stories can be found there. Hotel Continental, Vienna , opened , is today's Sofitel Vienna - a very chic modern architecture with interesting features. Destroyed in during the battle for Vienna, between Germany's army and Russian forces. Carrera, Santiago de Chile: The guest list included a mix of socialites, jet-setters and celebrities.

Pro-democracy guerillas attempted to blow up Pincohet's office from one of the most desirable rooms in the hotel see Legendary Stories. In December the hotel closed for conversion to government offices. The foundation stones of the hotel were laid A s guidebook says the original building stood in a large garden ornamented by stone fishponds, sole relics of ancient imperial offices.

The hotel's five-story red brick building was completed. Later known as the 'old building', this structure brought the hotel very brisk business. Prospering with good management and the booming tourism industry, the hotel received an investment boost of two million silver coins which added a seven-story French-style building today's Building B. This new structure, which is now called the 'middle building', consisted of suites furnished with central heating, telephone and toilet facilities, dining halls and kitchens, a hair saloon and a ballroom with a sprung floor.

Otis brand elevators took guests to the bar and open-air terrace for dancing on the seventh floor. Foreign guests described it as the number one luxury hotel in the Far East. Its opening was attended by well over distinguished guests who packed the lobby and dining halls. The Thomas Cook Travel Agency set up an office in the hotel and rented the liner Franconia to ferry tourists to China. In those days, a model of the ship was displayed in the Western dining hall and a banquet with dancing would be thrown around the model for each group of new arrivals.

The ' Incident' when Japan invaded China triggered a slump in business. The hotel was taken over by the Japanese during their occupation of Beijing. After World War II, the hotel was taken over by the municipal government of the Kuomingtang, after the war. Its business remained slack for the instability of society and the lack of foreign tourists. The People's Republic of China named Beijing its capital and offered the hotel a new lease of life. State and Diplomatic functions had to be held in a place with Chinese characteristics and high popularity Completion of a new wing.

The old brick building was pulled down and a new metre structure put in place. At the time it was the highest building in Beijing. It was located on the west corner of Bolton Street at Piccadilly. It is located in the hilly and tranquil Cimiez. The history of the construction of the Excelsior Regina Palace is related to the name of Queen Victoria of England who promised she would visit the French Riviera more often provided that a royal residence to match her reputation was built.

The building bristles with decorative elements characteristic of the Belle Epoque period. Parts of the Excelsior Regina Palace and the garden stretching in front of it, including the marble statute which depicts Queen Victoria a monument placed at one of the garden entrances enjoy the statute of historical monument. They were listed as such in True architectural masterpiece of the Belle Epoque, the Rotonde de Beaulieu rises in front of the sea and catches the eye of the passers-by and visitors of the town.

Large circular room with glass-faced apses and a cupola with cut-off sides, the Rotonde is a former outbuilding of the Hotel Bristol, built between and January at the request of the British clientele of the palace to serve tea. This lounge was built in the south continuation of the building by the same architect, the Danish Hans-Georg Tersling. Inaugurated on January 5, , the palace comprises luxuriously equipped rooms, including bathrooms fed with heated sea water, spread over 5 floors with 60 rooms per floor. The building has high roofs evoking the style of an English castle.

On March 28th , in the evening, fanned by a strong wind, a fire broke out in a chimney and spread to the top two floors of the building and to its entire cover. Following the intervention of the firemen of Beaulieu and Nice and of the Chasseurs Alpins, the fire is mastered by flooding the upper floors. Thanks to the reinforced cement structure of the building, the lower part of the building remains relatively intact, the fire reducing the upper two floors to nothing. The rest of the hotel is quickly rehabilitated and the Bristol reopens for the winter season of , amputated from the destroyed floors and with a classic roof in red tiles with a slight slope.

Converted into a high-end condominium by the promoter Saglia in , the Bristol loses part of its gardens as well as the tennis courts, ceded to the municipality of Beaulieu. The building retains its original appearance, decoration and part of the lobby. La Rotonde was for his part neglected and left without maintenance, threatened with demolition and finally expropriated for the benefit of the municipality in the s.

Transformed into a conference center in and operated by the Partouche group, it will not be any more used from Pflaums Posthotel Pegnitz, opened in , was owned and run by the founding familiy for 11 generations. As the inn is only 19miles from Bayreuth, it was filled with celebrities during the music festival, and trough much of the rest of the year as well.

The 5 star superior rated property has two award winning restaurants 'and 'Outdoor Dining';. Golf, Spa and conference facilities for incentives and small meetings, Open All Year. Hotel of the Year Germany. It closed in The Tor Hotel was constructed in and decorated in the style of a Swiss chalet by Alfred Mildner, a German hotelier born in Alcase Lorraine, because the popular Oriental Hotel near the port was overcrowded each time passenger ships arrived.

It catered to visiting dignitaries and tourists as well as wealthy Japanese and foreign residents. The hotel was located on the northern end of Tor Road, near the present-day location of the Kobe Club. The Tor Hotel burned down in , and little now remains of the earlier history of the site except for the giant Himalayan cedars in the front car park, thought to have been planted around by Arthur Greppi, a European businessman who had lived on the site before the hotel opened in There is also one small, red torii gate — all that remains of an Inari shrine that was located in the hotel garden and had several torii leading to it.

Unsurprisingly repulsed by the smell of rotting fish that besieged the town following a series of ecological disasters the huge lake became so polluted that all marine life was doomed to end up dead on the sand banks , residents and visitors abandoned Salton City, California in the late s. The Palms Motel remains though — at least its structure. Abandoned in the s, the storey Lee Plaza Hotel is a monument to early 20th-century design, added to the United States National Register of Historic Places in This list is growing — with the help of our corresponding friends.

Please send us names and photographs of lost hotels. Built as the retreat for a prince, converted into a hotel for the perfect vacation, grown into a world class resort.

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The history of Schloss Velden is the fascinating tale of one of the legendary and unique hotels of Europe. I remember giving reading instructions for my books. Velden was created at the very end of the 19th century as a summer retreat for the jaded and worried people from the thick air and hurry of the crowded towns. It refers to a time in summer when the nobility moved to their country houses, to the alpine resorts, to the lakes and mountains of Austria. Sommerfrische is the landlocked response to the posh seaside resorts of Biarritz, Brighton or — to stay within the borders of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy — Abbazia Opatia , Rimini or Porto Rosz.

In this perfect setting, you will feel utterly relaxed. Contemporary connoisseurs were deeply impressed by its elegance I also recommend listening to it in the morning when the sun rises above the lake, smiling at the Seespitz. The grass, still wet, will tickle your feet. Gustav Mahler, of course, is a good choice as well. Il tuffo in acqua dal trampolino di 3 metri, il vento nei capelli, la vela che sbatte rumorosamente al vento durante la virata. Alle passeggiate sul lungolago, ai timidi sguardi sotto agli ombrelloni inclinati, la signorina, il signore.

Un bacio fugace che si percepisce per giorni. La traccia di profumo su un fazzoletto di pizzo. I realisti diventavano entusiasti, i timidi acquistavano coraggio e i sedentari marciavano nella natura. Gli scenari di queste azioni cambiavano poco. Erano i centri del mondo per i villeggianti di ieri e sono le chicche dei viaggiatori di oggi. Benvenuti alla mia piccola visita guidata nella storia del Castello di Velden, dove potrete rilassarvi piacevolmente in un ambiente meraviglioso.

Vi consiglio di ascoltare Brahms come sottofondo. Il suo concerto per violini, Op. Sentitela al mattino presto, quando il sole sorge sul lago e sorride sul ristorante Seespitz. Der Sprung ins Wasser vom 3-Meter Brett. Der erste Bikini, der Geruch von Sonnencreme, ein Sonnenbrand. Der Hauch eines Parfums auf einem Spitzentaschentuch. In diesem wunderbaren Ambiente werden Sie sich herrlich entspannen. Als Begleitmusik empfehle ich Brahms.

Das Violinkonzert, Opus Kenner waren von seiner Leichtigkeit beeindruckt. Stellen Sie sich wieder einmal auf eine Wiese, zum Beispiel im Beachclub. Er hat hier seine vierte Symphonie zu Ende komponiert. Go to the book - available in English and Italian. July 17 marked the th anniversary of the murders of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. It was the playground of Russian aristocrats, artists and famous travelers. Carved in stone, the list of famous visitors outside the Goldener Adler in Innsbruck, Tyrol click to enlarge.

In that same year Prince Otto of Bavaria, about the become the first king of modern Greece also stayed. The Goldener Adler is not just a comfortable and friendly hotel, it's one of great the landmarks of Innsbruck with protected heritage status. According to Thomas this means he has to get permission from the Denkmalamt even to stick a nail in a wall.

But previous owners had already created a breakfast room downstairs. Talking about key to success! Another innovation that is being more enthusiastically embraced is providing mobile phone information about the famous guests who stayed during the hotel's year history. Nevertheless the hotel will only move gradually with the times. Thomas has no plans to move them just yet.

Maybe it was the exquisite cheesecake I had for tea this afternoon. However, I find this discussion very distressing and it is a great shame that it has spoilt what has otherwise been an extremely good day. A friend of mine has investigated about my position towards the pastries at the Lobby of The Peninsula in Hong Kong.

Secondly, to give you the scientists answer: Despite all this exercise I merciless put on weight. I have spoken to the management, but they appear hopelessly unable to do anything about it. Once I stayed there for three months and after checking out I had to adapt my entire outfit with the exception of my hats, a few pairs of shoes and an old umbrella. At that time I was living at the Raffles in Singapore, and the doorman greeted me upon my return with the dreadful remark "Oh, you have put on weight".

This is a compliment among Chinese, I had to learn. During that time I have written the first authorised biography of the grand old lady of Hong Kong. Let me introduce to you the origins of the name Sandwich. The year was He was a noted explorer, and also a dedicated gambler with a love of day long card games. This led to little time for food. So he came up with the ingenious idea most of us are convinced it was at the card table of putting meat between two slices of bread to eat great food without too much fuss and single-handed.

Lord Nelson had lent his name to a hotel in Cape Town. She was the queen of crime fiction, the mistress of mystery writing whose tales of murder, deceit and intrigue habitually topped the best-seller lists and entertained generations of avid readers. Her two famous creations, the intuitive, moustachioed Hercule Poirot and the shrewd spinster Miss Marple, are household names across the globe. Agatha Christie, it seems, has always been with us.

Except for 11 days in , when all of a sudden she vanished into thin air. Her handsome war hero, however, was quite openly having an affair with another woman. Agatha became nervous and depressed. On the evening of Friday 3 December the writer announced she was going for a drive. The next day her car was found abandoned a few miles down the road with some of her clothes and identification papers scattered across the back seat. Within hours the news was all over the papers. Amid suspicion of suicide or foul play, police dredged a lake.

Archibald Christie's telephone lines were tapped and 15, volunteers scoured the surrounding countryside. Eventually, a full 11 days later, Christie was located at a hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, befuddled and amnesic. With her picture splashed across the daily newspapers, fellow guests had recognised her and alerted the police. Whether she had truly lost her memory or whether this was merely an elaborate publicity stunt was never established.

Christie did not mention the episode in her autobiography. She died in and the puzzle went unsolved. So where, you may be wondering, does Pera Palas, the famous hotel in Istanbul, come into the equation? She did not stay at the hotel when she first travelled to Istanbul. She had chosen the Tokatlian Hotel, which no longer exists.

The often quoted tale that she had written Murder on the Orient Express at the Pera Palace appears to be a myth. Or does it not? Although Istanbul is thousands of miles away from Berkshire, no one had the slightest inkling that the answer to the Christie affair might lie on the banks of the Bosporus.

The Hotel Baron in Aleppo, Syria , was an other logical haunt of the writeress. It is indeed documentd that she stayed there. But did she write Murder on the Orient Express there? In Warner Bros saw a box-office hit in Christie's mysterious disappearing act and turned it into a movie, starring Vanessa Redgrave as the missing author and Dustin Hoffman as the intrepid American reporter hot on her tail.

Because there was so little evidence to build the plot around, Warner Bros took the unusual step of hiring the celebrity Hollywood medium Tara Rand to contact with Christie's spirit and get to the bottom of the mystery. From the unearthly quarters of the other world came an eerie message: The medium explained that she had seen a vision of Agatha Christie at the Istanbul hotel, hiding the key to a secret diary under the floorboards of room Within days swarms of camera crews, photographers and reporters travelled to Istanbul from all over the world to witness the unravelling of the mystery.

On March 7 they squeezed into room of Pera Palas. A telephone connection had been established between the hotel and Los Angeles, and Rand was issuing instructions. The information she gave seemed authentic. Sure enough, the floorboards were loose precisely in the spot the clairvoyat indicated. Beneath them was found an old rusty key, some 8 centimetres long. This was all great news for Pera Palas, of course. Not only did the affair provide welcome publicity, it also offered a possibility of some unexpected revenue for a hotel in need of a major revamp.

Over in California, Warner Bros hesitated, before turning once again to Tara Rand who duly went into another of her trances and summoned the ghost of Agatha Christie. Without further ado, Warner Bros dispatched Rand to Istanbul to get hold of the key and solve the enigma once and for all. The American press scrapped to be the first to break the news. This was the kind of story that would not come along twice. And then came the anti-climax. On 30 June , just as the US media was preparing for the denouement of this great twentieth century mystery, the Pera Palas staff went on strike.

It would last a whole year. Amid the commotion, the affair of the key was put on the back-burner. Public enthusiasm quickly deflated and the press went home. Warner Bros did release their movie Agatha later that year, but minus the Pera Palas connection. The fabled key ended up gathering dust in the vault of an Istanbul bank, where it unconfirmed! In , a second one was discovered under the floorboards of room , directly above Another twist in the tale? Perhaps we will never know. Today, the Pera Palace Hotel has dedicated a room to the great English crime writer. It displays a historic typewriter and presents a respectable collection of Agatha Christie's books.

Even the hotel's signature restaurant is named Agatha—a respectable tribute to a great writer, who, as it stands at the moment, has never stayed at the hotel. She, herself, never commented on the missing 11 days. Did she excape on the Orient Express to Istanbul? Did she collect experiences and details for her book Murder on the Orient Express during that journey?

Did she secretly stay at the Pera Palace Hotel, hiding from the rest of the world? For the follwoing three reasons:. Constantinople wasn't the logical choice for a woman travelling alone. Sunningdale, Berkshire, where she was living, is east of London, south of Windsor today we'd say: To reach the Orient Express would have been more than complictaed. As the timetable suggests click to enlarge , the journey took way over two full days and nights from Paris to Constantionple, not to mention the crossing of the channel and the onward journeys, London — Paris vv. In total the time for the journey with perfect connections and no time lost in transit would have been just under three days.

That doesn't sound as if she had just returned from a 10 days trip to the Orient. Hercule Poirot, her super-detective, like herself, didn't check into the Pera Palace Hotel. All evidence of Agatha Christie every staying there had disappeared. Manager Hakan Suezer snatched at that golden opportunity and simply moved the entire Christie story over to the Pera Palace, his hotel, deeply in need for a good publicity stunt.

What a shame about the strike. However, neither Hollywood nor oriental creativity could delete the lines from Agatha Christie's biography and novels. So for the time beeing I shall close this case, but rest assured, dear rader, I will keep an eye on this file. Book enthusiasts know summer is high season for books.

Hotel Bristol Vienna - the burning glass of intellectual capacity. Next to the Viennese Opera House it was the home away from home to all conductors, singers and stars who ever stood on its stage. And there is the love story of the Prince of Wales …. An account of transformation, from Indochine to Indochic. Two charming buttleresses were captured by photographer Bill Lorenz. O ver 80 titles await you in our bookshop. You can browse the exhibition and all authors.

I know those concepts can stand alongside this virtual assistant strategy and serve to embellish it in some ways, but is this really in sync with the culture you are trying to create? It is not well. Finally something to smile.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.