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What’s best for your trip? We break down the pros and cons of each below.
The room in which you sleep and bathe is a very intimate space. And you know that hundreds if not thousands before you have stayed there. How do you know they weren’t sick? But you can get through staying at a hotel while greatly minimizing your risk for infection.
(Washington Examiner) — District and Virginia officials are preparing to join a national fight to force Internet-based travel sites to pay more in local hotel taxes. The D.C. Council is set to vote Tuesday on a measure that would require discount travel sites like Expedia and Travelocity to pay more in taxes to capture about […]
(Afro) — On Nov. 10, Washington, D.C. Chairman-elect Kwame R. Brown, Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, Mayor-elect Vincent C. Gray and leaders from the Washington Convention and Sports Authority (WCSA) gathered to inaugurate ground in the District’s historic Shaw neighborhood in preparation for the 2014 opening of the Marriott Marquis Convention Center Hotel, located at Ninth […]
(Crain’s) — New York City has plenty of boutique-style hotels—the intentionally trendy, unique lodgings meant to appeal to guests who don’t want to stay in a cookie-cutter Sheraton or Hilton. A bevy of hotels bearing such quirky names as Andaz, Indigo and Aloft opened this year. And even more are on the way. About half […]
NEW YORK (AP) — When a trendy Starwood boutique hotel called Aloft opens in Harlem later this month, it will be the neighborhood’s first major hotel since the famed Theresa closed in 1967. Harlem is already a must-see for many visitors to New York, but the tourism industry believes the opening of this hotel will help […]
(Washington Business Journal) — D.C. developer LaKritz|Adler says it has been selected as a finalist by Metro to redevelop a site on the 800 block of Florida Avenue near Howard University, the Washington Examiner reported. The project would include a restaurant with live entertainment at the corner of 9th and U streets, a hotel and […]
(AJC) — Increased convention traffic this year has pushed hotel/motel tax collections up 10 percent over 2009, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau says. To date, the city has collected about $20.9 million in the hotel/motel tax, said Gregory Pierce, ACVB executive vice president and chief financial officer. Hotel/motel taxes are a key revenue source for […]
(AJC) — Five years ago, the chances of getting room rates of less than $100 at a swanky upscale hotel like the W or the Grand Hyatt were few and far between. But these days, with the economy lumbering and the inventory of hotels in metro Atlanta way outnumbering guests, room rates — the amount […]