Las Vegas: Craziest casino hotels (2)

The kitschy Caesars Palace 

This replica of a temple of ancient Rome contains numerous imitations of Roman statues (more or less successful). There is also a reproduction of the Victory of Samothrace. Do not miss the lobby of the hotel which is the photo taken for his bad taste.

The most volcanic: The Mirage 

The special feature of this hotel is to cause artificial-and impressionnante- eruption of a volcano, every night.

The more architectural: the New York-New York

New York at Las Vegas? It's possible! This hotel reproduces the famous landscape of Manhattan. It is crossed by a rollercoaster 62 meters. One wonders how such an architectural project was born.

The more green: Wynn 

In front of the Wynn are a real small forest and waterfalls. Behind the Wynn, there is a beautiful 18 hole golf course. Note that the Wynn is one of the best hotels in the world equipped with a technological point of view.

Most ole-ole: Treasure Island 

Every night stands in front of this famous hotel casino a show showing very pretty young women dressed as pirates. Initially, the hotel had a family positioning, helpless to attract a more masculine (and more profitable) customers. 

So where will you sleep in Las Vegas?

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Las Vegas: Craziest casino hotels (1)

Las Vegas: Craziest casino hotels

Las Vegas hotels have often served as a backdrop for Hollywood films, James Bond Hangover. 

Sleeping in a hotel in Las Vegas appears likely on the list of experiences that a traveler should definitely achieve in his life. Here are the 10 most strange and unusual Vegas hotels.

The most dizzying: the Stratosphere Tower 

This tower-hotel is taller than the Eiffel Tower. On the roof, the world's tallest roller coaster, Big Shot, perched at 329 m. Since April 2010, we can also do a bungee jump from the top of the tower

The most romantic: the Venetian 

The walls of the hotel is a hyper realistic reproduction (turquoise water and more) canals of Venice. You would walk in gondola, of course.

Most LGBT: Paris Las Vegas 

This hotel reproduces the most famous Parisian landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower, which was originally to exceed the true height (this was not possible due to unstable ground). To cope with the crisis, the hotel has recently adopted a position gay - lesbian.

Most impressive: the Luxor 

Egypt to Vegas is the Luxor, the pyramid is an attraction in itself. 106 m high, it is almost as large as that of Cheops in Egypt. The color change of the pyramid based on the light. The elevators go up along the oblique walls.

The most fun: Circus Circus 

It is a real amusement park that hides inside the Circus Circus. This is the largest indoor park in the world with 16 attractions including a mini-golf course and a rollercoaster

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The tallest hotels in the world

Want to take a deep breath? Of the few places to see? We propose to explore the tallest hotels in the world. Perched hundreds of feet above the ground, you will pass your stuck to the window to watch the view ... out of sight time!
Man tries to break records, to create ever more beautiful places ever larger, ever higher. From Dubai to Shanghai, it is imperative that you do not have vertigo!
Installed in buildings disproportionate

The Grand Hyatt Shanghai, China, is part of the Jin Mao Tower. Over 34 floors, this luxurious hotel has taken up residence here to offer stunning views over the city. In the second establishment of the firm Hyatt, also located in Shanghai, Park Hyatt, it competes with lights and colors to offer to tourists and businessmen (who are a large percentage of clients), unforgettable moments in this place up among the stars. 80th floor spa is renowned for be remembered.

In Dubai, you will be able to choose to spend the night in one of 800 rooms that includes the JW Marriot which measures 355 meters in height. To restore, you'll be spoiled for choice with 14 restaurants.
No doubt you will gasp at the Ritz-Carlton Hong Kong, which rises to 483 meters. On "only" 16 floors, the hotel is a "small" 2700 m² spa.
Growing up ...

In these towers that rival high, these hotels are perched perhaps the most beautiful! Then he moved to 261 meters, the Grand Lisboa Macau in China is a real feat of architecture with 400 rooms which include a jacuzzi. And while the Baiyoke Sky Hotel, set in the tallest tower of Thailand competes stunning interiors and licked finishes, both Jumeirah Emirates Tower in Dubai face majestically. If you do not have vertigo, you may even have the luxury to dine in the restaurant on the roof ...

Finally, you can not miss the Burj Al Arab Hotel, which is self-proclaimed 7 star hotel. Perched 321 meters in the tower making 1053 the sailboat-shaped building is located on an artificial island facing the city of Dubai. It can boast of an aquarium that contains over 400 fish, and have her dressed hall of gold moldings. Enough to make your head spin ... and dizzy!

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Live like a Hamster, but in a hotel

La Villa Hamster, Nantes, France 

"Can I put myself in the place of my hamster? "Asks the website of this strange cottage in an alley in Nantes. If this question haunts you, La Villa Hamster has the answer - and given its bathrooms wooden bench its beds, its giant tanks used with feet of water, and its very romantic hamster wheel two, the answer seems to be yes. Yes, you can be a hamster on for a night if that's what you want, until the fur: to home, it is provided to each new arrival mask hamster.

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Bubble Tree Hotel

Bubble Tree Hotel, France 

Living in a bubble, it's not just good for Glenda the Witch. In France, it is possible to experience it for at least one night by booking a place in the inflatable chambers of designer Pierre Stephane Dumas.

Transparencies and surreal floating shelters all over France in eight natural sites, including Castle Forest, dating from the sixteenth century. Residents have different choices of intimacy (semi-transparent bubbles are available) and size (a "suite bubble" can be created by combining a small bubble with a large or a "great result" by linking two double beds) .

And through a filter protecting insects, mold and allergens, and a plastic UV coating, these glamorous orbs provide protection against the much higher than that of a true bubble elements.

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Grand Canyon Caverns Suite, Arizona , unbelievable idea

Grand Canyon Caverns Suite, Arizona 

In terms of intimacy, hard to beat the Grand Canyon Caverns Suite, which at more than 200 meters underground, is so far from the surface and devoid of natural light, nothing, absolutely nothing, saw . Because it is located inside a cave, the air we breathe is clean, dry and, with its beds, living areas and bathrooms, the cave is perfectly suitable for human life. In fact, it served as a shelter during the Cold Atomic, War can accommodate 2,000 survivors for a month. Today, it is part of a larger complex of 48 rooms in the Grand Canyon and proves to be a unique way to discover one of the best preserved vestiges of the planet.

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Save the Beach hotel

Who would believe that a hotel would literally concider waste amateurs placed as high as Bar Refaeli and Helena Christensen? Apparently, the German artist HA Shult envisioned a glamorous future in recycling trash into a hotel - its mobile hotel, placed first in Rome in 2010 and in Madrid in 2011, is made of 12 tons of trash found on beaches Europe. The idea is to revitalize the beaches of Europe by cleaning, and the hotel is the vibrant event, with its covered a range from plastic bottles and cans crushed abandoned instruments and members of the body wall dismembered mannequins.

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Underground hotel in sweden

Sala Silvermine Suite Underground, Sweden

All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes it's money. Although it is difficult to know if there is enough light to 600 meters underground to discern the light of anything. 600 meters is the depth of the Sala Silvermine Suite Underground, and if only for its status as the world's deepest hotel, this single room is amazing. It is dug in an old silver mine dating from the eighteenth century and features a silver furniture.

The entrants are entitled to a quick visit and then are left for the night in their room at 30 ° C. Not a sequel to the weak of heart.

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Ice Hotel, Quebec

Ice Hotel, Quebec 

No need to live in an igloo to capture the true Canadian experience, but it would certainly be fun. For a few months each year, you can live like a Eskimo in this Quebec hotel, entirely of ice and snow. Even mattresses are frozen, and 500 tons of ice and 15,000 tons of snow were trained high ceilings of 20 meters and a finely carved furniture.
this hotel is the first and only glace hotel in north america, it is located 5 km north of Quebec City, on the first slopes of the Laurentian mountains

It takes about six weeks to build with 50 workers. The hotel makes its own snow using a magical and special blend to adjust the moisture content and therefore create snow.

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Karostas Cietums, a prison or an hotel?

Karostas Cietums hotel Latvia 

The prison was closed in 1997 after nearly a century of confinement morbid and dangerous for military prisoners, but they say the place is still haunted by the ghosts of his sordid tsarist past. On frightening Soviet relics occupy metallic and dark cells, and actors in military clothes recreate the atmosphere of the prison with a terrifying realism. Residents can choose from a ride with "accessories show," participate in a reality TV show called "Behind the Bars", or put themselves in the shoes of a prisoner by spending a night in jail. They are then treated as prisoners.

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An hôtel made of salt !

Palacio de Sal, Bolivia

Do not go near the Palacio de Sal if you want to reduce your sodium intake. This place is pure salt, the walls on the ground through the furniture.

Color chalk white huts blend into the white landscape of the Salar de Uyuni, which extends to a salty drop in all directions and provides a breathtaking view for stargazing and eating popcorn. Or fries, or chips ... you get the point. It is a land of salt, lots of salt.

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Dog Bark Park Inn

Dog Bark Park Inn, Idaho 

It's the size of a rock, the colors of Snoopy, and you can spend the night. It is a kind of dog Troy, located in the pastures of Idaho, along with toilet-shaped giant water pump.

The Dog Bark Park Inn is a nine meter high beagle named "Sweet Willy" which hosts a wonderful world based on the theme of dogs, and 26 dogs carved and shaped cookies dogs.

Residents sleep in a single room with a bed and an appendix with two twin beds. Probably the cutest niche where you never sleep

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The most luxurious hotel in the world

The Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi 

The most luxurious hotel in the world 

Built at a cost of $ 3 billion, the Emirates Palace has 394 rooms and suites, 40 meeting rooms and conference facilities, a white sand beach, a myriad of pools and fountains, a lavish spa, imported marble 13 countries and more than 1,000 crystal chandeliers. It's like a small fortress craft that also boasts the most prestigious marina in the Middle East. The royals, or those who want to experience the attractions, can bask in one of the many suites of the palace, each dressed in a sumptuous setting befitting a sultan of old, but with enough modern conveniences to please today magnates.

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hashtag #MyDestination

Inspired by Twitter to filter threads on a specific topic, the hashtag (keyword hash) has quickly established itself in the language of social networking sites. It was adopted by Instagram, Youtube and Facebook with even less success.

The tourist office in Montreal and encourages tourists to twitter, instagrammer, post videos with the hashtag #MTLMOMENTS. These digital traces are then taken with the objective of territorial communication, the city seen by citizens and tourists, a social wall (social wall) that dynamically collects all contributions.

The Stockholm Arlanda airport in Sweden has increased its ingenuity by developing customized travel guides mobile, the content comes directly from the geotagged photos on Instagram. For each of the destinations served by the company, one can discover the different places of a city in photo, add to favorites and even download his own guide in PDF. Of course the purists will say that reading a PDF on mobile is a Dantesque user experience but it's a trade probably relevant in terms of development cost.

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Tourisme and territorial gamification

Tourisme and territorial gamification

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we consume information constantly. Mobile media intrude more and more into our lives "tourists increased." What are the current trends and best practices of m-tourism?

Mobile games were a phenomenal success, they are among the most downloaded applications. Farmville, Candy Crush, Angry Birds are so many mobile games with the often short career but amazingly addictive and viral, including through Facebook where invitations fuse!

The promotion organization of Thailand has developed an entire ecosystem of gamification "Smile Land" with the challenge of discovering the destination having fun and become the best racer in the country!

Another example to follow closer to home: Terra Aventura, geocaching made ​​in Limousin

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HashTag #MTOURISME

BUT Not without my Wi-Fi !

In the last quarter of 2013, there were 27 million mobile users with 50% of French equipped with a smartphone (MMAF). Between 2012 and 2013, the rate of equipment touchscreen tablets has doubled from 8% to 17% (Crédoc). The evolution in terms of equipment is to be compared with a strong dependence on Connection: in all places, at all hours and all connected devices (ATAWAD).

Various studies show that Wi-Fi has become a determining factor (see exclusion) when choosing accommodation. To meet user demand, transportation tourism now includes this service offering far only haven forced disconnect lack of technical means. In March 2013, AirFrance opened its first flight connected to the New York-Paris link. By 2015, the station announced the Wi-Fi in 128 stations.

Other unexpected players have understood the value of offering services in response to a need for their users. This is the case of Facebook, which offers merchants renting a Wi-Fi hotspot allowing customers to enjoy Internet access against a Facebook checkin in their trade.

Many destinations in France have understood the value of their territory mesh with Wi-Fi for the benefit of residents and tourists alike.

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How many Hotel rooms are there in the World?

How many hotel rooms are there in the World?

Some are very large and others quite narrow there that offer beautiful views of the outside and others on a wall, they are single, double, triple or more, urban or rural, clean or unhealthy, luxurious or austere ... but have you ever wondered how much there is of hotel rooms in the world?

According to the latest census conducted by STR Global, there was in the month of February 2012 more than 13.4 million hotel rooms worldwide, 13443014 exactly.

The growth over the past 12 years was 1.6% per year. The Asia-Pacific region that has seen the most growth in this sector with an increase of 2.7% per year. Then follow the Middle East and Africa with 2.5% annual increase. Growth in the number of hotel rooms in Europe was only 1.1% per year.

This is North America has the largest number of rooms to hotel chains and is also the region with the largest number of rooms in all categories with 41.1% of the global hotel portfolio, representing 5 565,866 rooms.

Europe is the second region in the world with 3,998,603 hotel rooms, or 29.7% of mondial.Elle hotel portfolio is followed by the Asia-Pacific region offering 2,897,823 rooms, or 21.6% of Grand total.

The increase in the number of hotel rooms has been greater for first-class hotels and upgraded from 39 to 41% of the total, at the expense of other types of accommodation.

Despite the crisis is expected to increase the number of tourists in 2012, which is good news for the hotel industry. Last year, 800 new hotels are under construction in Europe, or 130,260 new rooms that will soon be available to travelers

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The importance of Tourisme

Tourism is in third place in the ranking of "BIG" sectors of world trade. Revenues from tourism surpassed only by those of the industries of oil and automobiles. Today tourism is the industry's first service in the world.

In a country like Morocco, for example, the tourism sector is considered one priority sector in the Moroccan economy. This is a real growth driver knowing that this is the second contributor to the national GDP after agriculture height of 8% and second largest creator of jobs with about 500,000 jobs).
It is the most taxed in terms of direct and indirect taxation sector. It is also a generator currency area than transfers from Moroccans living abroad according to statistics from 2012 and 32% of exports of goods and services, covering 24% of the deficit in the trade balance in 2012.

The Morocco as declared by the Minister Lahcen Haddad has reached a bed capacity of 200,000 beds in classified (excluding Riyadh kasbah ..) hotels and finally in 2013 passed the 10 million tourists, with a delay of 3 years to the goal of vision 2010 which was replaced by the 2020 vision that is intended to include Morocco among the top 20 most visited global destinations.

The cities of Marrakech and Agadir are the two most visited major cities of the kingdom, and illustrate the most important types of tourism that are the seaside and cultural, followed by other forms of alternative tourism such as eco tourism and other forms of niche tourism. (Skydiving, boating ...)

But to further develop this sector must develop in parallel all other fields to which it is linked, including transportation, infrastructure, services ... And it must be based on a self-centered capital and local produce as much of the value added created by tourism returns to owners of capital, international hotel chains or even the import of capital goods, facilities and food from the outside, which deprive us large sums of profits, and makes tourism more vulnerable.

And it also we must not forget the social level. It is certainly better to prepare the society to how to receive tourisme and tourists, and how to adapt with no risk of acculturation.

Mouhcine Boudanes

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