Excalibur Hotel and Casino

Hotel and Casino Excalibur Hotel and Casino is located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, in the United States. Owned and operated by MGM Mirage.
Excalibur, named after King Arthur’s sword setelak, using the theme of Arthur in the building. Its facade a picture of a castle. Until 2007, a figure like a magician [...]

Choice Hotels International

Choice Hotels International is a network of franchised lodging headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States pioneering two-star hotel accommodation to four star hotel with Quality Inn ® brands including Choice Hotels ®, Cambria Suites ®, Comfort Inn ®, Comfort Suites ®, Quality ®, Sleep Inn ®, Clarion ®, Mainstay Suites ®, Suburban Extended Stay [...]

Shutters on the Beach Hotel

Shutters on the Beach is a luxury hotel on the coast of the United States Santa Monica, California. Owned by The Edward Thomas Hospitality Corporation, a United States corporation. Is a member of The Leading Hotels of the World, a trade association and marketing.
Shutters on the Beach opened in 1993 and renovated in 2005. The [...]

Andalucia Hotel

Hotel Andalucia is an American luxury hotel located in Santa Barbara, California. Owned by The Edward Thomas Hospitality Corporation, a United States corporation. Is a member of The Leading Small Hotels of the World, a trade association and marketing.
According to the hotel web site, Andalucia has 77 hotel rooms and 20 suites. The hotel is [...]

Turkey (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)

This volume shows Turkey at its best, from the beautiful beaches and azure seas to the glittering mosques and churches, intriguing historic quarters and colourful bazaars. In-depth coverage is given to Istanbul with the help of cutaways of ancient buildings, pictorial maps and 3-D aerial views. This award-winning guide also helps you to (more…)

China (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)

DK Eyewitness Travel’s full-color guidebooks to hundreds of destinations around the world truly show you what others only tell you. They have become renowned for their visual excellence, which includes unparalleled photography, 3-D mapping, and specially commissioned cutaway illustrations. DK Eyewitness Travel Guides are the only guides that work equally well for inspiration, as [...]

France (EYEWITNESS TRAVEL GUIDE)

You’d be hard-pressed to find a more comprehensive, engrossing, and just plain fun-to-read guidebook than the Eyewitness Travel Guide: France. Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, you’ll find three-dimensional drawings, floor plans, and detailed neighborhood maps, as well as timelines, charts, even Metro stations. Broken into four [...]

Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives (Hardcover)

Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world’s unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations – everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums – and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts, and with a foreword by Bill Bryson, [...]

The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (Paperback)

From The Washington Post
“MacCannell attempts to create something Levi-Strauss said is impossible: an ethnography of modernity, a detailed anthropological analysis of modern culture. . . . By following the tourist, he believes, we may arrive at a better understanding of ourselves.”
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The Tourist [Bargain Price] (Hardcover)

From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Edgar-finalist Steinhauer takes a break from his crime series set in an unnamed Eastern European country under Communist rule (Liberation Movements, etc.) to deliver an outstanding stand-alone, a contemporary spy thriller. Milo Weaver used to be a tourist, one of the CIA’s special [...]

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