Monthly Archives: July 2014

Jackson Hole Air Advancement Resources (JH Air) is spearheading an growth of nonstop air support to thirteen metropolitan areas during the 2014-fifteen wintertime time.The move is a end result of the sturdy 2013-14 ski year, which noticed a 10% boost by means of the Jackson Hole Airport.“The JH Air board focused on increasing capacity during the early and late seasons,” Dec. 6 to twenty and March 21 to April five, explained JH Air Chairman Mike Gierau.  “We understood we have been hitting capacity troubles at holiday getaway periods and peak weekends, each at the JH Airport and at regional resorts […]

Marriott International’s first U.S. hotel beneath its AC upper-midscale brand name will be in New Orleans.The AC Hotel New Orleans Bourbon Avenue will open in the aged Cotton Exchange Creating in Oct. Added AC resorts are slated to open following year in Miami and Kansas City, Mo., in addition to Chicago. Marriott strategies to open far more than thirty AC accommodations in the U.S. and Latin America in the course of the subsequent 3 many years.The AC Hotel New Orleans Bourbon Street, like the previous 4 Details by Sheraton hotel that AC is reflagging in Chicago, will have about 220 […]

ORLANDO — Amid a celebratory burst of fireworks and confetti, Common Orlando Resorts formally opened The Wizarding Globe of Harry Potter – Diagon Alley to attendees on Tuesday.I was amongst reporters who joined supporters from as significantly absent as Eire and England, waiting at Common Studios Florida ahead of dawn to knowledge the park.The centerpiece of Diagon Alley is Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, a 3D thrill journey featuring a fireplace-respiratory dragon and a journey via the Gringotts vaults from the Harry Potter series.On opening working day, website visitors waited for as long as six several hours to […]

Chicago’s Navy Pier, the most well-known vacationer spot in the Midwest, may add a boutique lodge near its jap stop as part of its upcoming centennial celebration.Officers are pitching a web site that would accommodate a boutique resort as large as 225 rooms, according to Navy Pier spokesman Nick Shields.The lodge could be element of the $ a hundred and fifteen million first stage of redevelopment attempts earmarked for the pier’s one hundred-yr anniversary in 2016, though it would be developed by non-public developers. Shields declined to estimate a time frame for the development.Navy Pier juts out practically a mile […]

China-based developer Dalian Wanda Team is proposing a $ 900 million Chicago blended-use undertaking that would incorporate the very first U.S. resort for the Wanda Lodges & Resorts luxury chain.Wanda Group is proposing an 89-tale developing that would be the city’s 3rd-tallest.The web site, found in Lakeshore East development region just south of the Chicago River, is slated to crack ground this yr and open up in 2018, and would consist of a 240-place lodge.The firm introduced the very first expansion of its hotel chain outside of China with a house slated for London, and has given that explained it […]

Stock ISLAND, Fla. — Key West’s doing work-class neighbor is on its way to becoming the Florida Keys’ next tourist destination. Stock Island, populace 4,000, lies immediately to the east of the Southernmost City. It is residence to tightly positioned, reasonably priced residing accommodations in its central main and to business boat yards and marinas together its southern edge. But individuals boat yards and marinas have recently caught the extravagant of developers, who visualize a revitalized Stock Island, the place industrial and charter fishing docks blend seamlessly with the vacationer lifestyle. “There’s absolutely nothing like observing the capture unloaded,” stated […]

The American Queen Steamboat Co. (AQSC) is relocating its 436-passenger paddlewheeler American Queen to the Ohio River for the remainder of July because of to large water stages on the Higher Mississippi River.Torrential downpours in modern weeks in the Midwest have resulted in flooding together stretches of the Mississippi River.Consequently, the American Queen is shifting to the Ohio River for its following 3 sailings, which will impact the originally scheduled July 9 sailing between Cincinnati and St. Louis and the July fifteen and 23 sailings in between St. Louis and St. Paul, Minn.”Occasionally river situations are outdoors our manage,” AQSC […]

Riu Lodges & Resorts will introduce its Riu Plaza city lodge manufacturer in two of the most profitable hotel marketplaces in the U.S.The Resort Riu Plaza Miami Beach will open up on Nov. one, adhering to a $ fifteen million conversion of the former Riu Florida Beach, which Riu has owned and operated considering that 1996.The hotel is on a extend of Collins Avenue where a number of hotel businesses, such as Hilton Throughout the world and Commune Accommodations & Resorts, are renovating and reflagging oceanfront homes.Riu strategies to open the Riu Plaza New York Instances Sq. by the end […]

Caesars Entertainment will rename the Quad Vacation resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip as the Linq Resort & On line casino in Oct, soon after the house undergoes a $ 223 million renovation.The two,256-space Linq, which will just take reservations for stays starting up Oct. thirty, will receive guestroom updates as effectively as a new pool area, a foyer renovation and automated verify-in. The home opened in 1959 as the Flamingo Capri just before being renamed the Imperial Palace in 1979. Caesars renamed it the Quad in 2012.The hotel’s identify references Caesars’ new Linq Promenade retail-leisure district that […]

Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes in Orlando is following the direct of its brandmate to the south, the Ritz-Carlton, Sarasota, in opening up a cafe that captures the vibe and the flavor of its locale.Michelle Valle, director of community relations for the Ritz-Carlton Grande Lakes, suggests the good results of Jack Dusty – Coastal Delicacies & Crafted Cocktails at the Sarasota home was the inspiration guiding the Orlando resort’s Highball & Harvest, which is slated to open in August.Jack Dusty, which opened in 2013, characteristics a nautical decor and a variety of seafood plates created with farm refreshing elements, Sarasota-motivated cocktails and […]