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VANCOUVER - Park Royal is a one-stop holiday shopping destination. There are over 200 shops, restaurants, and Cineplex VIP cinemas on site. Park Royal is home to a lot of unique stores that won't be found anywhere else, and they are constantly innovating with new additions to their stunning location. Thule is opening its first store in Canada this winter season at Park Royal. Thule is an excellent destination to get gifts for the outdoor enthusiast. They offer roof racks, sports bags, baby joggers, and more. Rees highlighted three of her top picks to look out for from Thule. Thule Chariot Cross 2 Multisport Bike Trailer: This all-round trailer, jogger and stroller is perfect for the active family. It is designed to easily transform for four activities. The Thule Chariot is the perfect companion for biking, jogging, strolling, and even skiing. Thule Roundtrip Bike Duffel: This gear bag is perfect for the dedicated cycli...

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The Ace Hotel Chicago, the Fulton Market property that opened four years ago with a restaurant from Giant chef Jason Vincent, will close at the end of January. The move announced Wednesday night via Instagram after Crain's reported the property was sold to Vancouver, B.C.-based Onni Group. January 26 is when "Ace Hotel Chicago will be leaving the building," according to the property's Instagram account. The space is across the street from Google's Chicago headquarters, north of Randolph Restaurant Row, and developers are hoping for a real estate boom after the pandemic. Guinness plans to open a nearby brewpub in 2023. Onni's plans for the space aren't clear, as Crain's reported the deal is for about $63 million. Sources say Onni has interviewed a few of Chicago's more renowned restaurant groups to make over the food and beverage space. An Ace spokesperson provided the following statement: Sterling Bay recently made the decision to sell ...

Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures There was once a time when the Gucci name was synonymous with dynastic wealth, power, and glamour. And then one of its scions Maurizio, a grandson of brand founder Guccio Gucci, wrested control of the family business from his relatives, lost all of it to a Bahraini investment firm, and then pissed off his ex-wife Patrizia Reggiani so much that she had him murdered by a hit man. Such is the sensational tale that has recently been adapted into a movie with much fanfare as Ridley Scott's House of Gucci , itself based on a 2001 book by the same name. The film, which stars Lady Gaga and Adam Driver as doomed couple Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci, has managed to become nearly as big of a phenomenon as the real-life events it depicts. Some of that has to do with the controversy, from the fake Italian accents to the actual Gucci descendants' deep dissati...

With the year drawing to a close, some of us are already thinking about where to holiday in 2022. As part of our review of 2021, Dezeen rounds up 10 impressive new hotels, including Pharrell Williams' Goodtime Hotel, a 17th-century monastery conversion and clifftop villas on the Jurassic Coast. Photo is by Guo Zhe Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou, China, by Studio Avoid Located in the village of Xiyaotou in the Zhangjiakou prefecture, Studio Avoid designed Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou to reference a collection of traditional cave dwellings in the area. The cave-like pods take shape as a number of interconnected, brick-clad, vertical volumes each 0f which is topped with large skylights. A winding wooden walkway on stilts weaves between the pods connecting to entrances on the first-floor level. Find out more about Grotto Retreat Xiyaotou › Photo is by Alex Krotkov Casona Sforza, Mexico, by Alberto Kalach Alberto Kalach designed this hotel in the co...

Hotels in development abroad include a W hotel in a new entertainment development in Macau, a Regent resort in Vietnam and a Six Senses resort in Dubai. W Macau—Studio City Melco Resorts & Entertainment, a global developer, owner and operator of integrated resort facilities, has entered into a strategic partnership with Marriott International to bring the W Hotels Worldwide brand to Studio City Phase 2, the new cinematically themed entertainment and leisure destination in Macau. Scheduled to open together with Studio City Phase 2 in December 2022, W Macau—Studio City will complement Studio City's other hospitality offerings, which include one of Asia's largest indoor & outdoor water parks, a six-screen Cineplex, residency show and MICE space. The hotel expects to have 557 guestrooms, including 127 suites and wellness facilities, a spa, fitness center and indoor swimming pool, as well as two dining venues, the Living Room (the W brand's signatur...

The first look at His Dark Materials   season 3   reveals the return of James McAvoy's Lord Asriel. Adapted from the Philip Pullman book trilogy of the same name,  His Dark Materials  stars, alongside McAvoy,   Logan 's Dafne Keen as show lead Lyra Belacqua, Ruth Wilson as Lyra's mother Marisa Coulter, and Amir Wilson as Lyra's close friend Will Parry. While season 2 focuses on Will's quest to discover the truth about his missing father, season 3 will bring both Lyra and Will's story arcs to a climax with a season based on the third and final  His Dark Materials  book, The Amber Spyglass . While on the...

World of Hyatt has announced details of its first chain-wide promotion of 2022.  Called "Bonus Journeys¨, the promotion will run from January 15 – April 20, 2022. The main element of Bonus Journeys is very straightforward. Members can earn 2,022 bonus points for every 2 qualifying nights at any World of Hyatt hotel (including Small Luxury Hotels, MLife hotels, etc.). With Hyatt, award nights (as well as free night certificate nights) are also eligible for these bonus point promotions. You can earn a maximum of 20,220 bonus points – equivalent to 20 eligible nights. The complicated element of Bonus Journeys is the 1,000 point bonus available to credit card holders. You can earn 1,000 bonus points PER STAY at 180+ locations in the United States. You can find the full list by clicking here. You can only earn a maximum of 10,000 bonus points, equivalent to 10 eligible stays. Don't forget to register! Registration is required before check-out of your ...

Skift Take Mergers and acquisitions were undoubtedly the headline in 2021, as corporate travel agencies regrouped after a grueling year battling the pandemic. Matthew Parsons \There's always been murmurings of consolidation in the corporate travel sector, for a variety of reasons. Pre-pandemic it was mostly about founders of smaller, perhaps older, travel agencies deciding to call it a day, cash in and sell up to a rival. But consolidation escalated in 2021. The bigger moves included American Express Global Business Travel buying Egencia, TripActions acquiring Reed & Mackay, and TravelPerk entering the UK with its acquisition of Click Travel. Even banks are buying travel-booking platforms. There's more of a rundown here. This all matters because the entire landscape is about to change. Not in 2022, maybe not in 2023, but whenever the true picture emerges of the dominant travel agencies (and there won't be many) is...

A pampering spa holiday is the perfect treat for the new year, and if you're hoping to visit the spectacular countryside or scenic cities north of the border, we have the perfect spa hotel in Scotland for you. If you've tried the spa hotels in the Cotswolds and love a city spa break in London, you'll want to know all about Scotland's impressive spa sanctuaries for a soothing escape. There's no better way to relax with your partner or a group of friends than an indulgent spa break – and in Scotland, the spas come with a backdrop of beautiful countryside. There are also some excellent spas in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where you can soak up the city skyscape from a rooftop pool. BEST SPA HOTELS IN SCOTLAND At Edinburgh's Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa, for example, you can lie back and enjoy a view of the city from the heated comfort of the hydropool on the rooftop. Then there's the globally renowned Gleneagles, a destination hotel that likes to call its...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The strategy of optimizing brand communication based on customer information may appear very simplistic at first sight. But the layers it encompasses are anything but simple. Customer communication and engagement is the starting point, but the focus should be on collating deep insights into customer preferences, needs, demands and analysis to craft strategy.  The first connection is where data needs to be relevant and complex, yet easy to analyze. Analytics plays a huge role here, and many tools can help clean, structure and analyze big data for customer insights. But a large part of marketing is building connections — data equips us, marketers, with information that can create that connection....

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DUXBURY – For Island Creek Oysters owner Skip Bennett, his latest venture represents a meld of Duxbury's past as a shipbuilding town and its present role in the oyster business. "We've taken on a new identity, which is an oyster town," Bennett said as he walked through Island Creek's recently acquired restaurant property, the Winsor House Inn, which was built in 1803.  Located just across the street from Bennett's oyster hatchery and its seaside Raw Bar, the Winsor House is Bennett's third restaurant. It opened mid-November and is already booked solid three weeks out, he said. The building was once home to sea captain Nathaniel Winsor, and the building's first restaurant opened in 1932. Island Creek renovated the building's interior. Bennett said there were a few things in the restaurant layout he wanted to update. Strolling through the restaurant, Bennett pointed to one of the dini...

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A pampering spa holiday is the perfect treat for the new year, and if you're hoping to visit the spectacular countryside or scenic cities north of the border, we have the perfect spa hotel in Scotland for you. If you've tried the spa hotels in the Cotswolds and love a city spa break in London, you'll want to know all about Scotland's impressive spa sanctuaries for a soothing escape. There's no better way to relax with your partner or a group of friends than an indulgent spa break – and in Scotland, the spas come with a backdrop of beautiful countryside. There are also some excellent spas in Glasgow and Edinburgh, where you can soak up the city skyscape from a rooftop pool. BEST SPA HOTELS IN SCOTLAND At Edinburgh's Sheraton Grand Hotel & Spa, for example, you can lie back and enjoy a view of the city from the heated comfort of the hydropool on the rooftop. Then there's the globally renowned Gleneagles, a destination hotel that likes to call its...