My Hotel Geek

After a tortuous two-decade endeavour to break into the world’s second-most-populous country, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Four Seasons is finally opening the finest hotel in Mumbai in the emerging Worli district of India’s largest city.

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Montreal’s largest convention hotel in Montreal is turning 50 years old tomorrow. The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth, with its 1039 rooms and suites, has the best location in town on Rene Levesque Blvd and is situated right above the train station.

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Just a few days ago, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts and HCT Development announced a new luxurious resort project to be completed for the winter of 2011: The Fairmont Vail. This is amazing news for my company and myself as the best skiing in North America is in Vail with great terrain, powder as well as 300 days of sunshine a year!

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Looking for luxurious accommodation in Vegas without smoking and gaming? The Trump International Hotel & Tower Las Vegas is the place to go. Defined as the next generation of luxurious hospitality, the 64-storey, floor-to-ceiling windows hotel, will be the destination of choice in Vegas for the cultivated traveler.

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Since I was a child, I’ve always wanted to go to Egypt, the most visited country in Africa with well over 9 million ++ visitors a year. Population is 78 million people and in Cairo alone 17 million.

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Today I am wrapping up The Fairmont Mayakoba Trilogy. Earlier this month, I talked about the fabulous Mexican resort on the Riviera Maya, its authenticity and great food & beverage experience.

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I was so impressed the first time I went to Vegas in January 2006. We stayed at The Mirage as we could not afford the big hotels such as The Bellagio, The Wynn or Mandalay Bay.

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I have a great job! I represent a fabulous 5 star-hotel in the Charlevoix area and I come here for meetings and site visits with clients as often as possible. We drove today from Montreal and it took us the usual 4 hours to get here. The drive is quite scenic from Quebec City to La Malbaie and not long at all if you have driven before from Vancouver to The Wickaninnish Inn near Tofino on Vancouver Island!

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Today was a beautiful and sunny winter day. I went to my hometown where I grew up in La Mauricie. It’s called St-Alexis-des-Monts and is located 90 minutes from Montréal and 45 minutes from Trois-Rivières. It’s a nice small and quiet community where tourism is doing quite well.

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