April 2012
6 posts
Hotels with History
Selecting a hotel that enhances your travel experience is a delicate art, much like choosing the right book to bring on vacation. Just as you wouldn’t want to read Anna Karenina on a hot beach in Florida, you wouldn’t want to rest your head in a gleaming high-rise in ancient Peru. Instead, why not opt for a 15th-century conquistador’s manor, set on the training grounds of sacred Incan warriors?
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High hopes for on-premise
Value offerings, creative drinks bring consumers out
According to Chicago-based Technomic Inc., overall consumer expenditures on alcohol away from the home will increase 2.4 percent this year. The restaurant industry also is experiencing positive growth, reports the National Restaurant Association (NRA),...
This week on NY Real Estate TV-Michael Stoler Real...
Retail sales might rise with the doubling of the clothing sales tax exemption.
Beginning, April 1st, purchases of clothing and footwear sold for less than $110 will be exempt from New York State’s four percent sales and use tax. This is double the previous exemption for items of up to $55.
The tax free offer applies to all relevant items purchased in person, over the internet, by phone...
Food truck fad comes to fine hotels hawking...
Forget room service. Hotels’ latest food entree is putting it in trucks and delivering it on the street.
Food trucks and temporary pop-up restaurants have become ubiquitous on American streets. And many hotels are getting in on the craze:
•The Setai Hotel in Miami’s South Beach last year opened the Beach Kiosk, what it’s dubbed a “high-end hotel food truck” on the...
