The News Review:

- Nakheel Hotels acquires 50% stake in Mexican Resort
- Marriott Hotels want bigger market share
- That’s sick! 8 ways to avoid the bug
- A Hotel Doctor Treats Airline Crew | The Life of a Hotel Doctor | By…

Nakheel Hotels acquires 50% stake in Mexican Resort
ASIATravelTips.com – Feb 25, 2008
The enterprise value of investments to date is in excess of $3 billion. Nakheel Hotels will continue to pursue its strategy of acquiring luxury hotels in key gateway cities and resorts across North America Europe and Asia along with investing in the budget hotels sector in key growth markets. Projects currently include The Trump International Hotel & Tower which is under development on The Palm Jumeirah while the group has already acquired several luxury hotels in the US including Mandarin riental W Union Square and Hotel Washington as well as significant equity investments in Kerzner and International Hotel Investments plc and development projects for W hotels in Thailand. QE2 Enterprises which has acquired the QE2 is also part of Nakheel Hotels.

Marriott Hotels want bigger market share
New Vision – Feb 25, 2008
“We are creating awareness of our brand in our Africa as well as to the average individual Ugandan who may plan for a holiday or honeymoon providing comfort and excellence in hospitality away from home” the regional director of market sales Brenda Salira said after the successful partnership with Unilever during the Geisha mothers competition. Unilever’s marketing manager Margaret Kigozi said the two-month Geisha promotion was the biggest and most successful in the last three years. The top prize was a song recording with artiste Juliana Kanyomozi and a five-day trip to Thailand for Vicky Nakayiza and her parents Mr… “We are creating awareness of our brand in our Africa as well as to the average individual Ugandan who may plan for a holiday or honeymoon providing comfort and excellence in hospitality away from home” the regional director of market sales Brenda Salira said after the successful partnership with Unilever during the Geisha mothers competition. Unilever’s marketing manager Margaret Kigozi said the two-month Geisha promotion was the biggest and most successful in the last three years. The top prize was a song recording with artiste Juliana Kanyomozi and a five-day trip to Thailand for Vicky Nakayiza and her parents Mr. Semboga plus a media team. The group stayed in a cross-section of the Marriott hotels which offered them a feel of what each of the Marriott brands entails. These included the moderate business hotel the Courtyard by Marriott Bangkok which goes for an average rate of $90 the luxurious JW Marriott Bangkok Hotel at $170 and the holiday Marriott Pattaya Resort and spas which cost an average of $220 per day.

That’s sick! 8 ways to avoid the bug
MSNBC – Feb 25, 2008
Bizarre_Foods_with_Andrew_Zimmern. Stay away from fried fire beetles when you?re in Thailand (a man died several years ago after he consumed the poisonous insects). Ditto for blowfish. A woman in Mito Japan died recently after the local fish market forgot to remove the poison. Why take your chances?3. Never dine at a restaurant recommended by someone with fewer teeth than a two-year-oldThat?s the advice of Randy McCleary a project coordinator from Grand Rapids Mich… fficials discovered the (no peeking kids) butt magnet but after a thorough investigation determined there was ?never a threat. Never use the hotel bedspreadThe thing that most people forget about their hotel is that someone slept in the bed before they did. And hotel beds ? from the roadside motel to the five-star resort ? can be a real germ confab. Bedbugs cockroaches infectious diseases ? they?ve got it all. Bedspreads are a likely hideout but so is the TV remote control and the phone. Esther Perica a retired librarian Arlington Heights Ill.

A Hotel Doctor Treats Airline Crew | The Life of a Hotel Doctor | By…
Hospitality Net – Feb 25, 2008
Airlines in Los Angeles soon learned about me and I made 618 visits mostly to flight attendants and sent my bill to the airline. Flight crew are young and healthy with uncomplicated illnesses so visits tended to be easy. n the other hand airlines switched hotels when they obtained a better rate. Since I was reluctant to give up business I found myself traveling farther than I liked. As in other aspects of health care foreign nations had a better system. When American crew needed a doctor they could go wherever they wanted and use their insurance. The combination of no transportation and American health insurance with its huge deductibles meant they usually went nowhere… If I didn?t give a prescription they didn?t point out the oversight. Matters were different with Cathay-Pacific. Based in Taiwan its flight attendants came mostly from Southeast Asia: Thailand Malaysia Singapore Indonesia the Philippines as well as Taiwan. I quickly discovered these cultures have a different view of a doctor?s powers. Although most Americans would deny it they believe doctors ? invariably doctors they like ? possess healing powers that go beyond scientific medicine. It?s my impression southeast Asian cultures take this more literally and they also believe employing such powers require a doctor?s presence. When Cathay-Pacific crew called they rarely welcomed advice.

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