Author: Kim

Luxury hotel packages

It never ceases to surprise me how difficult hotels find it to create innovative packages for the luxury market.  The Mandarin Orient have launched their Christmas package for $US130,000 which includes a limo service,...

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“Super Clean” as a hotel proposition

Pure Room, a company specialising in “allergy friendly rooms” claims that 59% of travellers would choose a hotel that offers super clean rooms over a comparable hotel without them, and that most of them would be...

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Control someone else’s Christmas lights

About 8 years ago, robotic webcams which internet users could control, started to become the rage.  This has now been taken one step further in Canada with am Ottawa resident developing a software programme which allows...

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Tiffany awaits verdict in eBay lawsuit

Tiffany and Co. is still waiting for a verdict in its lawsuit against eBay after a weeklong bench trial in which Tiffany’s lawyers argued that eBay is a distribution network that allows counterfeit Tiffany items to be...

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Diamond demand/supply gap to widen next year

The gap between the demand for, and the supply of, diamonds is set to widen from 2008, thanks mainly to a surging demand in India and China, Tawana Resources MD Wolf Marx said last week.He added that the size of the...

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Pink diamonds in Africa

A rare 7.28 carat pink diamond was found by Rockwell Diamonds in Northern Cape Africa. It recently sold for US $1.054 million or US145,000 per carat. Diamonds of this colour and quality traditionally only come from the Argyle...

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