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Interview and discussion with Barry Sternlicht of the Starwood Capital Group. He talks about how he end up with real estate business and the challenges they overcome.

The project is being constructed by IPC Jerusalem, owned by Paul and Joseph Reichmann, at an investment of $107 million. The new hotel is on the site of the Palace Hotel and the historic customs house between Agron Street and King David Street, close to the Alrov Mamilla Avenue shopping and luxury residence complex, and the Old City of Jerusalem.

Part of conglomerate Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, W Hotels enters the crowded Miami Beach luxury market as the hospitality industry is reeling from the recession.

There have been 12 crashes this year so far and carriers globally are on pace to equal the 10-year high of 24 crashes in 1999, according to safety foundation figures.

When visiting cities in Europe, if you use public transit, you can talk to people who live there and get to learn more about them.

A U.S. hotel and leisure company announced plans Monday to build a luxury hotel in Bermuda, where the vital tourism sector has been hit hard by the global economic crisis.

Often executives believe that because none of their competitors is pushing the edges of technology, they have no compelling reason to divert energy and resources to do so themselves.

ISADORE SHARP had a different coda in mind for the twilight of his career. The 77-year-old founder and C.E.O. of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, he was looking forward to some time with his wife, sons and grandchildren.

An over-eager crowd in the Hungarian capital Budapest thwarted low-cost airline Wizz Air's attempt to release 1,000 balloons for its fifth anniversary celebrations when they caught wind of the freebies attached.

Well before midsummer, the sun sets late over Paris . Even at 9 p.m., you can sit on the banks of the Canal St.-Martin in the 10th Arrondissement, and see in the still water the reflection of the sky, a blue mottled with thin clouds, and the low pale buildings with their amber lights just turned on, and the ruffled, fractal edge of the trees in ...

If you can afford to travel this summer, you're likely to find some good deals with a little planning.

Lufthansa said demand for economy class air tickets had been steadying over the past few months but premium travel continued its nose dive.

The cruise industry is on the verge of filing a lawsuit against the state of Alaska over the $50 per passenger cruise tax Alaska's voters approved three years ago.

Sheraton and Microsoft collaborate to show off Windows 7 to business travelers and those on vacation.

Lufthansa won permission from EU antitrust authorities on Monday to buy Brussels Airlines in a deal worth up to EUR250 million euros after it agreed to let rivals fly on some of its routes.