Grand rapid Hotels News

Starwood Hotels Aggressively Expanding Its Footprint in India
Outpacing the competition in India, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. today announced it will open nearly 20 additional hotels in this fast-growing market by 2015.

eforea: spa at Hilton Launches to Franchise Hotel Owners
Hilton Worldwide today announced continued expansion of eforea: spa at Hilton, its innovative global spa concept. Refined at seven properties owned or managed by Hilton Worldwide since debuting in late 2010, the turnkey spa solution is now available to franchise owners across the Hilton Hotels & Resorts, DoubleTree by Hilton and Embassy Suites Hotels brands.

Leading Business Intelligence on the Middle East & North Africa
MAKKAH -- Hotel industry in the holy city of Makkah is leading the world with a growth rate of 15 percent per year. It means more than 1,200 hotels will operate in the city by 2020.

Get your Green and Gold fix at Discovery World this weekend
Prep for Sunday's Packers playoffs with two days of Green-and-Gold projects at Discovery World.

Itami airport site to be Tokyo backup?
Imagine the following scenario: After decades of warnings from seismologists, a massive earthquake strikes Tokyo in 2022 and levels wide swaths of the city, killing tens of thousands of people and leaving hundreds of thousands more missing or injured. In a worst-case scenario for the next Great Kanto Earthquake, the Tokyo urban area, home to nearly a quarter of Japan's 127 million people, would ...

Breaking Ground at Bulova
The former Bulova Watchcase Factory is one of the largest buildings in Sag Harbor, and an intrinsic part of village history. For over 20 years now, boarded up and empty — save for trespassers wielding cans of spray paint — the building that was once the economic center of Sag Harbor has sat shrouded with [...]

Train crash, VCOM opening part of 2011's top news
A devastating miniature train crash that killed a 6-year-old Gaffney boy and wounded many others captured the attention of Herald-Journal readers early this year.