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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
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| Green Travel: The World's Best Eco-Lodges & Earth-Friendly Hotels (Special-Interest Titles) |
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Green Travel is the must-have guide to eco-lodges & green hotels around the world. Featuring 100 clean, green accommodations that are not only environmentally friendly, but work to support local communities as well, Choosing Eco-Travel celebrates the growing availability of green travel experiences. It also tackles some the more difficult issues that ethical travelers’ face--- questions about poverty, the politics of boycotting certain destinations, and the environmental impact of travel.
Divided into six chapters (North America & the Caribbean, Central & South America, Europe, Africa & the Middle East, Asia and Australasia), the book includes:
·100 independent reviews of green accommodations that have a minimum impact on the environment and benefit the local community in measurable ways.
·A full description of the green credentials of each hotel and lodge
·A range of choices from around the world: budget beds to luxury accommodations, solar-powered yurt camps to eco-chic city hotels.
·First-hand accounts of green travel experiences on each continent — from bear-watching in Alaska to wine and cheese trails in Britain
·Ethical travel dilemmas that tap into the key issues facing the responsible traveler
·Practical information about the greenest ways to get to your destination, social and environmental ratings for each listing, the best time to visit, and room rates.
·Clear locator maps and full-color images throughout |
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 Thrilled to Have This Book |
| Review Date: April 30, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Norma Lehmeierhartie, New York, USA |
How smart is this book? For anyone who cares about the environment, the impact of travelers on communities and their own health--this is the travel book to have.
I have left places that stunk from the use of chemicals for cleaning or where the outgassing from carpets, wallpaper and the like literally made me sick.
These accommodations list how they are eco-friendly. Additionally, many of them just sound like awesome places to stay--yurts and other unusual choices.
This book will help guide you to the best environmentally friendly hotels and lodges.
By the author of the award winning book, Harmonious Environment: Beautify, Detoxify and Energize Your Life, Your Home and Your Planet |
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
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| Inside the Plaza: An Intimate Portrait of the Ultimate Hotel |
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| From Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald cavorting in the Pulitzer Fountain to Ivana Trump patrolling the halls to inspect the rooms, this is the Plaza Hotel as no one has ever seen it, or been permitted to see it. The Plaza is the place where the Beatles headquartered when they invaded America. It's where George M. Cohan held court during the golden era of Broadway. It's where Marilyn busted a strap on cue, where Cary Grant started out from when he traveled North By Northwest, and where Macauley Culkin stayed after staying Home Alone.From the railroad tracks in the basement to the vast luxury suites overlooking Central Park, this is the full story behind the gilded doors, the inside scoop direct from the people who have cavorted there and worked there. |
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- 239 Pages
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- Hardcover
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A peek into a New York landmark
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| Review Date: April 2, 2002 |
| Reviewer: Jon Hunt, Old Greenwich, Ct. USA |
| Ward Morehouse, III has written a nice little book about the history of the Plaza Hotel, one of New York's enduring landmarks. The author takes the reader through all aspects of the building of the hotel (the present one is the second Plaza which opened in 1907) and has some wonderful insights of his own about life at the Plaza....he lived there as a boy. While the book is informative and has many photos from the past, it could have been better put together. Why, for instance is a floor plan not included? This would have been most helpful as the reader tries to imagine where many of the significant entertainment rooms are in relation to the others....especially ones that are no longer there. It would have been good to have a this kind of reference. Mr. Moorhouse's book jumps around quite a bit, also. Who proofread "Inside the Plaza"? The number of spelling mistakes is appalling. "Dessert" is always spelled "desert". The best chapter regards the recollections of longtime employees, of which there are many. Their remembrances really add much to the color of the Plaza and they help the book to its conclusion. "Inside the Plaza" is an easy read and enjoyable. |
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
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| Hotel Sales and Revenue Management Book 2.0 |
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| Hotel Sales and Revenue Management Book 2.0 reflects the changes that Web 2.0 has brought to the hotel industry. Web 2.0 represents a seismic shift in how hotel sales, marketers and revenue managers perform their jobs-separating those that will be average and those that will be awesome! The travel and hospitality industry has had an intricate relationship with the internet since the advent of the Online Travel Agencies such as Expedia, Travelocity, etc. Far more than most industries, the impacting Web 2.0 has been swift and become embedded in the fabric of how the hotel industry conducts business. Do the basics still matter? Yes, but the basics have morphed into a new dynamic driven by changes in the buying habits of customers that increasingly use the internet and social media to make their choices. This shift applies to all segments-from the leisure traveler to the sophisticated meeting planner professionals.Understanding this shift, its evolution and applying the new basics, this book provides a handbook for succeeding in a Web 2.0 world. It is an exciting way and creative approach to hotel sales and revenue management! |
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it's not properly a book
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| Review Date: November 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Carlos E. M. Moura, Brazil |
This "book" is a collection of articles form 2005 to 2008. It's usefull as complement of RM reading.
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Not a book - just articles
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| Review Date: October 1, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Hospitality_101, |
| I was really excited to find a "book" about web 2.0 specifically for the hospitality industry. Unfortunately, this is not a book. This is a compilation of articles very hastily thrown together. This may be ok if they were contextualized by the author. Or even just put in some type of logical order. I feel ripped off. |
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
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| Love Hotels: The Hidden Fantasy Rooms of Japan |
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| Sex creates odd cultural conventions everywhere, but nowhere has an institution quite like the Japanese love hotel. To be rented by the hour for amorous liaisons, the theme rooms revealed in this provocative collection of photographs are steeped in fantasy, their elaborate décor ranging from simulated subway cars to religious bondage with much kink in between. These brash rooms are fascinating in themselves, but also present a window into a very classified aspect of this society. The foreword by best-selling author Natsuo Kirino and passages from hotel guest books lend humor and context to these 80 haunting room portraits, creating an astonishing document of sex and romance, public and private space in Japan. |
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Highly recommended
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| Review Date: February 28, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. Anderson, Conway, AR |
| I had only seen a few of these images when I bought "Love Hotels" and was thrilled with how many thrills and surprises the book itself offers. This is a tremendous body of work and a wonderful introduction to the photography of Misty Keasler, who has established herself as an artist of real humanity and complexity. "Love Hotels" is a gorgeously-designed book that is ostensibly about the loaded subject of Japanese hotel rooms used only for sex. In these delicious photos, Keasler goes much deeper than the simple eye-candy of these odd spots, and leads us on an exploration of this strange expression of a society known to be fairly sexually repressed. She communications a number of emotions -- some humorous, some sad, some disturbing -- that all reflect her longtime interest in how a particular public or private space illustrates the lives that occupy it. Much of Keasler's other work concerns children living in orphanages or garbage dumps, but no matter what the project, it always returns to place, and here she has found one of the world's most fascinating places. It's a great ride. Highly recommended. |
An interesting peek into Japanese sub-culture
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| Review Date: June 24, 2008 |
| Reviewer: T. Fleming, Western Kansas, USA |
| The pictures are fantastic, and the "notes" written by the various couples range from pathetically sad to highly entertaining. Be sure to read the forward or you won't understand the significance of Love Hotels in general. Makes an interesting conversation starter if left lying around on the coffee table! |
Japanese Adult Theme Parks
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| Review Date: September 6, 2007 |
| Reviewer: James R. Holland, Boston, MA |
Japan's infamous love hotels are a cultural art form. This is not a guidebook to the erotic world of Japan. Neither is it a collection of pornographic photos of hot Asian chicks and where to find them. This is a book of fine art photographs of the interiors of hotel rooms. There is not a photograph of a live person in the entire volume. The rooms in these hotels appear that they were designed by the animation artists of Disney. I kept expecting to find a "Pirates of the Caribbean" room. I had to settle for a room entitled "Pirate Room." It was pictured near an aquarium motif with the name "Underwater Room."
Each of the rooms shown in the book appears like an individual cell out of animated film. These rooms definitely represent individual rides in a pleasure park for adults. In most of the beautifully reproduced color photographs the viewer has to look carefully in order to tell if the room really exists or is just a skillfully done cartoon painting of a room. While every detail of each room seems almost like an unused exhibit in a museum, the one tip-off that the scene is real is that the beds shown in each location look like they had just been sloppily made. The spreads are usually slightly rumpled as if the maid was in a terrific hurry to get done before the photographer arrived. Another feature of the beds is that almost every bed has some form of chains with leather cuffs or other type of restraint in each corner of the bed and on top of the bed spreads. Many of the rooms also have S&M restraints hanging from the ceilings or attached to the walls or on crosses against the walls. A simple list of some of the picture titles for the Osaka hotel rooms says much about the content of the pictures. "Igloo Waiting Area", "Naughty Nurse Play Area," "Hello Kitty S&M Room," "Prison Cell," "Alien Abduction Play Area," "Subway Room," " Disco Ball," "Spider Room," and "Bondage Bathroom." There are many more amazing rooms with amazing names. There seems no lack of kinkiness and kitsch in these first-class establishments.
The photographer has a real gift for capturing the sensuality of these love hotel room designs. If sex is mostly above the neck, then the creators of these fantasy adventures are true erotic geniuses. The photographs are straightforward and amazing. It's difficult to show people living and loving without showing any people. The photographer has a real talent for recognizing the skill of the interior designers of these fantasies.
If the reader wishes to see real people working in the near-cousins of these Japanese cartoon fantasy worlds, Joan Sinclair has done a wonderful job with an entirely different approach in her book "Pink Box: Inside Japan's Sex Clubs." Since non-Japanese aren't usually allowed in these clubs, Sinclair's book is even more amazing and will be eye opening to any western audience. The American equivalent to the book "Love Hotels" is Timothy Hursley's "Brothels of Nevada." His architectural studies of the legal Brothel Industry occasionally show a real person within their gaudy architectural fantasy world created mostly through a system of combining over-sized trailers into sexual playgrounds. |
THE EMPTINESS OF LOVE IN A HOTEL
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| Review Date: March 5, 2007 |
| Reviewer: D. M. Sammons, Philadelphia, PA |
| What separates LOVE HOTELS from other works of its genre is that Misty Keasler has taken 80 or so giant photos of rooms from various Love Hotels in Japan, and none of the photos contains a living person. This is the Keasler technique. There are no living persons within her rooms. Though there is something terribly voyeuristic within all of us that wants to catch some of what we hope are the morbidly depraved acts of Love Hotelers as they do dirty things in rooms containing Hello Kitty dolls, over-sized snowmen and various assortments of creatures one might only see at a carnival, she does not reveal the subjects of her rooms. We are left with the objects that they ephemerally possessed. What is so pleasing about Misty Keasler's work and technique, however, is that she very much captures the ghosts of the people who have haunted her rooms. We are given the chance through Misty Keasler to peer into Dante's Hell. She is our Virgil, and the stories that these ghosts tell us through the rooms where the beds are not yet cold are often so more sad than sensual. This is also what makes her rooms so unbelievably beautiful. The journey Keasler takes us on is enhanced by the book's diaries left inside the rooms from Love Hotelers who inexplicably leave messages for future guests. These messages reveal amazing conflicts in the souls of hotel guests as they struggle with cheap love and even cheaper sex in hotel rooms that are designed for lust. LOVE HOTELS is an incredible body of work. Readers will find it difficult not to return again and again to the photographs to search for new ghosts who reveal themselves in different corners of each room. I very much recommend this book! |
Amusing
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| Review Date: July 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Bug, Philadelphia |
| A fun collection of photos from love hotels throughout Japan. There is such a variety of different themes for love hotel rooms that this book, of necessity, can only contain a small fraction of examples. So after looking through it, I mainly felt I wanted more photographs of more rooms at more love hotels. |
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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| The Hotel Book: Great Escapes Europe (Jumbo) |
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| The first installment in our new Hotel Book series, this is both a luscious picture-book of interiors and a guide to some of the most spectacular getaways in Europe. Featuring a selection of the most unique hotels and guesthouses from Sweden to Turkey—all places where you can melt away from the problems of the ‘real world’—the book mixes gorgeous color photographs with directions, pricing, and contact information. Since reading is a requisite part of your relaxing escape, we also suggest books for you to take along to each destination. From a lighthouse in Wales to a former monastery in Spain, these are the sorts of hotels that will open up your senses and just might change your whole perspective on life. |
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
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| Managing Hotels Effectively: Lessons from Outstanding General Managers |
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| Covering the fundamentals of hotel management, this work provides hospitality professionals with the theories, background, and practical skills they need to be successful general managers. It is based on interviews with 53 general managers from hotels of varying size and management approach. |
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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| The Hotel Book: Great Escapes North America |
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| From the redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters… Following up on our Great Escapes Asia, Europe, Africa, and South America titles is this volume concentrating on the most extraordinary and tempting Canadian and American hotels. Ranging from funky and inexpensive to luxuriously elegant and wildly pricy, these hotels, inns, guesthouses, bungalows, ranches, lodges, resorts and even—yes—wigwams and treehouses will surely seduce you. |
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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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| Hotel, Restaurant, and Travel Law (Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Law) |
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| For students and practicing professionals in hospitality, travel and tourism as well as specialized paralegal work, Hotel, Restaurant and Travel Law: A Preventative Approach, 7th Edition, addresses legal issues confronted by managers in the hotel, restaurant, travel and casino industries. The emphasis is on prevention of legal violations. By reading the book, managers can appreciate and identify what actions and precautions are necessary to avoid, or at least minimize, the number of lawsuits. The book uses the case method, long recognized as a helpful approach to learning the often-complicated discipline of law. Readers will study decisions from actual cases in which hospitality establishments were sued, as well as what legal precedents were cited. |
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Saturday, December 19th, 2009
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| Michelin 2005 France: 1000 Charming Hotels and Guesthouses (Charming Places to Stay in France) |
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| If you’ve always dreamed of relaxing in a French country farmhouse, waking up in a Chateau surrounded by vineyards or staying in an alpine chalet, your quest is over. Now Michelin Charming Hotels and Guesthouses brings you this and much more. The 2005 edition features 518 hotels and 482 guesthouses selected for their charm and hospitality, and 95% of them offer rooms for less than 80 euros. For each establishment you’ll find: • a photo • a short description • Driving instructions, amenities • Its location on a map • Those little extras that will make all the difference Special indexes to help you make your choice: • Low priced establishments • wining and dining breaks Michelin’s 1000 Charming Hotels and Guesthouses features a selection of establishments at reasonable prices throughout France, chosen by our inspectors for their authenticity, character, warmth and setting. The most expensive rooms cost no more than 110 euros; most of the prices are below 80 euros and a third of the establishments offer rooms for less than 50 euros. A few words, indicated by our "We Most Liked" symbol, highlight the little extra that we particularly like: "Exploring the underwater depths of the Scandola nature reserve", for example How the Guide Works The guide is divided into 19 French regions. Within these regions, the establishments are listed in ascending order of the number of the department. Within the department, towns or villages where we list an establishment are given in alphabetical order the establishments are numbered in this order. Hotels are marked in blue and maisons d’hote in red. The maps of France at the beginning of the guide show the 19 regions and their departments. At the beginning of each chapter is a regional map with the hotels marked as blue dots and the maisons d’hote as red dots. Don’t forget to stock up with the latest Michelin regional and local maps and titles from the Green Guide collection. |
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