Books, Hotel Rooms & A Great Idea
Books fulfil a real need to the traveller and holidaymaker. Easy to carry, they occupy some of the boring bits of the journey and, when you get to your destination be it a hotel room, a campsite or your own home, they join the pile for re-reading or passing to a charity shop.
Some hotels, in days gone by, had reading or writing rooms where you could borrow books and settle down in a comfy armchair. Now, in most hotel rooms you get a Gideon Bible and perhaps something about the chain (if it is one) or the place in which you’re staying and that’s it.
Not so Eurostars Hotels.
They sponsor the rather difficult to say Eurostars Hotels Travel Narrative Award. That means that the winning title is distributed free of charge in all of their hotel rooms. With 51 hotels that means well over 4000 copies of the winning title and that presumes that they aren’t taken by guests and replaced. That print run is higher than some hardback novels get.
It’s a great idea giving hotel guests something to read;- something which they can’t get in the shops until later and something that supports travel writing.
Out of more than 30 entrants, this year’s winner is Temoris Grecko who wrote "The Colors of Africa: A Chronicle of an Encounter with the People of South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya." As it’s name suggests, its about his journey through those countries and the contrasting religions, ethnic differences, lifestyles and regimes.
So to Eurostars Hotels, I offer applause for a simple idea but which makes a hotel guest appreciate a little something extra.
Some hotels, in days gone by, had reading or writing rooms where you could borrow books and settle down in a comfy armchair. Now, in most hotel rooms you get a Gideon Bible and perhaps something about the chain (if it is one) or the place in which you’re staying and that’s it.
Not so Eurostars Hotels.
They sponsor the rather difficult to say Eurostars Hotels Travel Narrative Award. That means that the winning title is distributed free of charge in all of their hotel rooms. With 51 hotels that means well over 4000 copies of the winning title and that presumes that they aren’t taken by guests and replaced. That print run is higher than some hardback novels get.
It’s a great idea giving hotel guests something to read;- something which they can’t get in the shops until later and something that supports travel writing.
Out of more than 30 entrants, this year’s winner is Temoris Grecko who wrote "The Colors of Africa: A Chronicle of an Encounter with the People of South Africa, Tanzania and Kenya." As it’s name suggests, its about his journey through those countries and the contrasting religions, ethnic differences, lifestyles and regimes.
So to Eurostars Hotels, I offer applause for a simple idea but which makes a hotel guest appreciate a little something extra.
Labels: Eurostars Hotels, Temoris Grecko
posted by cd-traveller at
21:02
2 Comments:
I stay at Eurostars' Grand Marina Hotel in Barcelona every now and then. When is this book going to be available? Is it true that Mr Grecko is Mexican? It'd be interesting to get to know a Latin American perspective on Africa. Unusual, isn't it?
The rapid infrastructural, cultural and economic development in the south Indian city of Hyderabad have augured the emergence of many other related industries and have triggered vigorous development in the such sectors as the hospitality sector. Hyderabad is also a major IT hub and this only proves to be a catalyst in bringing about development in the Hyderabad hotels. Flourishing business have paved the way to the opening of a number of world class business and budget hotels in Hydrabad. Growing business have also led to the growth of quite a many A-grade townships wherein also the hospitality industry is showing interest. As for example, Hospitality giants Hyatt, is all geared up to open two properties in Hyderabad. The first one, due to open in early 2010 is called Park Hyatt Hyderabad. The affiliates of Global Hyatt Corporation and Lanco Hills Technology Park Private Limited, which is a part of Lanco group have announced the signing of a definitive management agreement to open the second hotel in Hyderabad by 2011. The hotel will be named the Grand Hyatt Hyderabad. The hotel will be consisting 400 rooms and will be situated in the upcoming 100 acre township called Lanco hills in Manikonda, two miles from Gachibowli and HITEC city. The locality which is a part of the upcoming Central Business District is going to one of the most developed areas of Hyderabad and is 10 miles from the new international airport at Shamshabad.
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