It has grown into a city of 1.3 million people, with the beginnings of a skyline, several five-star hotels and construction cranes dotting the horizon.
When it opened in 1986 it redefined the idea of a business hotel: Instead of banquet halls, glittering lobbies and big chandeliers that were a fixture in Indian five-star hotels, it presented understated elegance--and had an exclusive, by-invitation-only club for executives.
In search of an answer, Ms Boo spent nearly four years visiting Annawadi, a small slum surrounded by imposing five-star hotels near Mumbai's international terminal.
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These exclusive hotels and resorts nabbed a Five-Star award for every category we rate: hotel, restaurant and spa.
His company, a global sales operation with an association of independently owned four- and five- star hotels, secures hotel buyouts for group business meetings.
But with the new upscale shopping centers and five-star hotels that have recently opened, coupled with a planned redevelopment of the old Kai Tak airport where planes used to fly in next to skyscrapers, Kowloon is looking up.
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Singapore will give first-class passengers no ordinary bland flight cabin, but a plush wood-and-leather affair that it has designed after studying how the world's five-star hotels do it.
The deal was signed in February 2001--Bulgari owns 65% of the company--and calls for seven five-star hotels in such cities as Paris, London, Miami and New York and possibly a Caribbean resort.
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