When we first started traveling to Europe, 20-plus years ago, both our bank account and our relaxed itinerary led us to stay in small, quaint European hotels instead of larger American chain hotels. We instantly loved staying in buildings that were hundreds of years old, often in residential neighborhoods, and spending time wandering those [...]

I received an email from a PR firm about a new community from Marriott for Marriott Reward’s members called Marriott Rewards Insiders.
Interesting features of the Marriott Rewards Insiders community include the following:

Registered members can use the site to check out information, post their own questions and add their two-cents with responses.
Member profiles can be [...]

Expedia surveyed 4,000 hotel proprietors internationally asking them who they would prefer to stay in their hotels.
Japanese, who were voted by hoteliers as the world’s best tourists in a global travel survey released this month.
It also rated the travellers on categories that included manners, willingness to learn the local language and sample the cuisine, [...]