Hotels

Tokyo’s famous Lost in Translation hotel is closed

Park Hyatt Tokyo shuts down for very long-term renovation project right as Japan is in an inbound foreign tourism boom.

With Japan receiving record numbers of foreign tourists, there are more visitors than ever from overseas looking for a place to stay in the country. Those who were hoping to stay at the Park Hyatt Tokyothough, will have to keep looking if they’re planning to travel to Japan anytime soon, as the entire hotel is currently closed.

Originally opened in 1994 and made Hollywood-famous through serving as the primary setting for the 2003 Sofia Coppola-directed film Lost

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Sofia Hotel Balkan widens non-cons net loss in Q1

May 9 (SeeNews) – Bulgarian hotel operator Sofia Hotel Balkan [BUL:SHB] said its standalone net loss expanded to some 1.07 million levs ($587,732/547,080 euro) in the first quarter of this year from 1.03 million levs in the like period of 2023.

The company’s overall revenue leapt by an annual 20% to some 2.95 million levs in January-March, Sofia Hotel Balkan said in an interim financial statement last week.

Income from overnights and food revenue both added 23% on the year to 2.01 million levs and 595,000 levs, respectively, while rental revenue rose by 2.8% to 183,000 levs.

Sofia Hotel Balkan,

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How To Use The Chase Sapphire Preferred Hotel Credit

The Chase Sapphire Preferred® Card currently has an elevated intro offer of 75,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on the card in the first three months from account opening. This card has a $95 annual fee, but, you can earn back over half of that cost every year by taking advantage of a single easy-to-overlook perk — the annual hotel credit.

Sapphire Preferred card members can receive a $50 annual Chase Travel Hotel credit every account anniversary year for hotels booked through the Chase TravelBC portal. Here’s what you need to know about how to use this credit

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Lai ‘ran hotel firm funding ad campaign’

Eunice Lam

Next Digital founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying allegedly provided instructions to his Canada-based company, Lais Hotel Properties, on hotel management, according to Royston Chow Tat-kuen.

The revelation by Chow, the former chief operating officer and chief financial officer of Next Digital, came on the 73rd day of Lai’s national security trial, under cross-examination by senior counsel Robert Pang Yiu-hung, who leads Lai’s legal team.

Pang said Lais Hotel Properties was owned by a trust rather than by Lai, with Chow, who is testifying for the prosecution, serving as the trust’s protector.

Chow said he

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