NYC Extended Stay Forum Showcases Segment’s Resilience, Growth Outlook
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NYC Extended Stay Forum Showcases Segment’s Resilience, Growth Outlook

Lifestyle Opening session panelists (l-r): Gary A. DeLapp, president & CEO, StayAPT Suites; Ben Brunt, managing principal & chief investment officer, Noble Investment Group; Greg Juceam, CEO, Extended Stay America; Ian McClure, CEO, Gulf Coast Hotel Management, Inc.; and David Wilner, SVP, franchise sales & development, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts. The inaugural Extended Stay Hotel Forum, held last Tuesday at the Union League Club in Manhattan, New York City, focused on development, ownership, and operation in the vibrant extended-stay segment, which comprises more than 51 percent of hotels currently being financed. The event included nine sessions covering trends and strategies in areas such as the economy and lifestyle & luxury segments, site...
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IHG Hotels & Resorts Signs Three Hotels in Turks & Caicos
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IHG Hotels & Resorts Signs Three Hotels in Turks & Caicos

Lifestyle IHG Hotels & Resorts announced three signings across its global luxury and lifestyle portfolio in Turks & Caicos for InterContinental Hotels & Resorts, Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, and Hotel Indigo. Developed in partnership with owner Molo Hotel Group and United Kingdom-based management group Lighthouse Hotel Management, both Slominski family-owned companies, the resorts will mark IHGs debut on the celebrated Caribbean island and are all poised to open by 2027.Set on Turks & Caicos Grace Bay, the properties will be brought to life by Glasgow-based architecture and interior design studio Ica, working in partnership with Turks & Caicos-based Conservative Architecture and Miami-based landscape architecture firm EDSA. Visitors and locals alike will be presented with three island respites:InterContinental Turks & Caicos: The new-build InterContinental Turks & Caicos will span seven stories. The all-suite property will be...
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Avoid eating soupy foods in groups from one bowl to prevent spreading Hepatitis B – Prof Akosa
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Avoid eating soupy foods in groups from one bowl to prevent spreading Hepatitis B – Prof Akosa

Lifestyle Communal eating from one bowl can help spread Hepatitis B, renowned cellular pathologist and lifestyle wellness consultant, Professor Agyeman Badu Akosa has said. He said eating soupy foods such as fufu, omo tuo or tuo zaafi together from one bowl can make people “swallow saliva” from each other.His explanation is that people put their hands in their mouths, and dip them in the soup and by such behaviour, they can mix saliva with the soup and if they have Hepatitis B, they can spread it.Prof Akosa was leading a discussion on practical ideas intended to improve quality health in Ghana at the Ghana Shippers Authority Hall at Ridge in Accra on Tuesday.The former Director-General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) was sharing ideas on healthy foods and lifestyle to help prevent diseases.“Once upon a...
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Omoda E5 launched in Singapore, as new showroom opens doors, Lifestyle

Lifestyle After multiple teasers, a vital MoU-signing (Memorandum of Understanding), and one elaborate booth at the 2024 Singapore Motor Show, Chery Automobile has finally made its official return to Singapore.And it's done so with not just one, but two inseparable sister brands, too, under the stewardship of its old partner, Vertex Automobile.On the evening of Tuesday, 23 May 2024, the doors to the gleaming-new OMODA-JAECOO showroom were grandly opened to members of the media and selected customers at 3 Ubi Road 4. Simultaneously, Vertex and Chery also celebrated the market launch of the latter's first new model in Singapore in a decade: The all-electric OMODA E5 (more on that in just a bit).The new OMODA-JAECOO facility, as the name suggests, will service the two brands Chery has pinned its hopes on as it intensifies its...
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