Clueless in Cleveland? Use Your Thumb (New York Times)
From showing you the nearest sushi bar in London to telling you how to say ?Where?s the toilet?? in Cantonese, travel apps for the iPhone are proving to be a useful tool.
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Whitbread Maintains Sales Growth as Britons Seek Cheap Hotels (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Whitbread Plc , the U.K.'s largest hotel and restaurant company, maintained sales growth during its second quarter as pressure on consumers to economize fueled bookings at the Premier Inn budget lodging chain.
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David Lister: Alas, poor audiences at the RSC (Independent)
It won't go down in history among the great campaigns in journalism, but I once persuaded the Royal Shakespeare Company to launch a coach service between its London and Stratford theatres. I had been bemoaning in print the absurdity of there being no direct link between the capital and one of the greatest tourist attractions in the world.
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Expert view: Clean, consistent and cheap (Guardian Unlimited)
The anonymity offered by Premier Inn is the reason for its success, says Anna Blewett
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