Hotel villa purchase with fixed returns free stays
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- Hotel villa purchase with fixed returns free stays
- Arise Sir Kerry showbiz’s opening knight
- Langham Hotels International Secures Elegant Landmark Property To…
- DLF to buy Aman Resorts
- Trains a microcosm of life in Asia
Hotel villa purchase with fixed returns free stays
Asiane – Nov 28, 2007
More resort or hotel operators are putting up some of their properties for sale and leaseback to raise cash. This means buyers can invest in a hotel room or a standalone villa for a possibly guaranteed return when they lease it back to the hotel owner. js’>They also have free use of the villa or room for a predetermined number of days a year. 'It is an investment that gives you the added benefit of the resort lifestyle' said Mr Ku Swee Yong of Savills Singapore… It's the same principle and we are the pioneers in Asia. ' Condotels are residential apartments leased out on a short-term basisBanyan Tree started selling its resort properties about 10 years ago but it launched the Banyan Tree branded properties only this year. More of such resort or hotel properties with units for sale are now on the market including St Regis Resort & Residences in Bali and Karma Resorts which has outlets in places such as Margaret River in Western Australia Kandara in Bali and Koh Samui in Thailand. n Friday Puravarna Group launched another phase of its villas at Puravarna Phuket which will open next November. It started selling the villas last year and more than 30 buyers from Singapore have paid at least $1. 9 million each for a property. They will get an average return of 8 per cent for 12 years and free use of the property for 30 days a year.
Arise Sir Kerry showbiz’s opening knight
Sydney Morning Herald – Nov 28, 2007
But thanks to a letter in The Straits Timesof Singapore the Herald has learned not only of his recentfate but also of his surprising new honorific. Christened Kerry Jewel on the London Palladium stage in 1947the showbiz veteran has become Sir Kerry. In a long letter to thepaper “Sir Kerry Jewel” thanked hotel and hospital staff after ahealth scare in Singapore in September. He wrote of his plan tospend four quiet days in Singapore after a hectic two weeks ofinternational business travel. n the evening of his flight home toSydney while packing in his hotel room at the Royal Plaza onScotts he “became very dizzy and collapsed fully conscious ontothe floor. My left side was completely paralysed. I felt like abeached whale floundering to try and get unsuccessfully to thehotel phone”… We only learned of his honorific title subsequently fromhis letter. After the Herald sought comment on the hotel drama themarketing manager of the Royal Plaza on Scotts Lynn Tannconfirmed that “some of my colleagues were commended by Sir Jewel[sic] in his letter to the Straits Times”. It is understood that before visiting Singapore Kerry Jewel wasin Thailand where he introduced himself to staff at the PhuketSupper Club as Sir Kerry Jewel. Last week he did not return callsfrom the Herald but his wife Elyse says her husbandtravelled to Queensland recently and has been unwell. Plans for his Tattoo Spectacular began in July last yearwhen Jewel was appointed the sole director and secretary of thenewly registered company Pinnacle Entertainment which subsequentlyproduced Tattoo Spectacular which opened in Perth in lateApril. Subsequent dates for the show in Sydney and Brisbane wereabruptly cancelled early in May and hundreds of performers and manycrew members found themselves out of pocket. A cheque deposited forthe performers’ accommodation in Sydney bounced.
Langham Hotels International Secures Elegant Landmark Property To…
Hospitality Net – Hospitality Net (press release) – Nov 28, 2007
69 CPU)–>Hospitality Net – Industry News – Langham Hotels International Secures Elegant Landmark Property To Gain Strategic Foothold n West Coast United States. Hospitality Net is part of the Hsyndicate… Langham Hotels International manages six luxury properties under The Langham brand across the four continents namely London Boston Hong Kong Melbourne Auckland and Pasadena (Jan 2008). LHI will further expand The Langham brand with its first boutique hotel opening in Shanghai in mid-2008. The first Langham Place opened in Hong Kong in 2005 and three new additions are scheduled to open in China ? with two in Beijing (2008) and one in Changchun (2009) as well as Langham Place?s first resort in Koh Lanta Krabi Thailand opening on January 1st 2008. LHI is wholly owned by Great Eagle Holdings Limited a publicly listed company (HKSE: 41) which was founded in 1963 and was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1972. CNTACTSherona ShngVice President – CommunicationsPhone: (852) 3552 3938Fax: (852) 3552 3902Email:. shng@langhamhotels.
DLF to buy Aman Resorts
domain-B – Nov 28, 2007
Aman Resorts chairman Adrian Zecha says "With the financial backing of DLF Aman Resorts will now have the resources to significantly scale up its development plans. While we expand our global footprint we are committed to preserving and enhancing the distinctive character of the Aman experience. "Aman already has hotels and resorts in over a dozen countries including France Indonesia the Philippines Thailand and the US. Its operations in India are currently restricted to two resorts Amanbagh and Aman-i-khas both in Rajasthan. That may sound a bit ambitious; but the group says it has already identified around 40 plots suitable for the hotel development in many cities including Amritsar Bangalore Chandigarh Chennai Delhi Hyderabad Kolkata Ludhiana Mumbai and Pune.
Trains a microcosm of life in Asia
Asiane – Nov 28, 2007
Everything is hard. It's hard getting into India it's hard getting through the airport and it's hard getting to where you want to be. I remember when I was working for a National Geographic piece in Rajasthan – I had to get to the airport by 1am – and the hotel staff kept saying "it's 9pm you should leave now". And I asked "where's the airport?" They said "it's very close but you should leave now. "So I heeded their advice thinking they must know something I didn't. And sure enough when I got to the airport there was probably half-a-kilometre of India in front of me. Buses with chickens people children and boxes – masses of humanity all the way up the road… Trains are a sort of microcosm of the place they run through. For example the train in Cambodia will be totally different from the train in Vietnam just because they are set up in different ways they go to different places and they are run by different administrations. So you know where you are once you get on the train whether in Thailand Vietnam or Cambodia. Would you recommend other travellers to try a train journey?Absolutely. If you have the time – pick a place jump on a train and see where that takes you – don't be too planned about it. The train is a great way to see Vietnam because it sort of runs up the coast and goes through all the major cities. Is there anything to be careful of?Well there are people who want to steal stuff from you maybe.
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