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...These reinvigorating therapies are offered in two dozen rooms overlooking a park dotted with lily ponds and rose gardens, with snowcapped Alpine peaks just beyond. There are also saunas, steam rooms and a gym. An on-site restaurant serves healthy fare, and the spa also operates an eco-friendly hotel. Given its size, you'll probably need to stay overnight to appreciate everything Merano has to offer...
...that there's never an ideal time to visit Afghanistan, but the hardy business travelers and intrepid tourists who make the journey can at least stop worrying about finding a decent place to stay in the capital, Kabul. The city has unveiled its first luxury accommodation, the Kabul Serena Hotel (serenahotels.com), offering a sorely needed alternative to those somewhat disheveled media and diplomat haunts, the Intercontinental and the Mustafa, as well as to the dilapidated guesthouses where many visitors have had to hole...
...Costing $35 million to build, the Serena was erected over the shell of the old Kabul Hotel, destroyed in the civil war. The new property is a sealed world, insulated as far as possible from the daily difficulties of life in Kabul. At a cost of some $1.2 million a year, the hotel will run its own electricity generators?essential in a city where power often flickers on for only four hours every other day?and will treat its own water and sewage...
...with its open drains and mud-brick hovels?seems impossibly remote. The only reminders that you're in Afghanistan are the armed guards at the front door and the views from some windows into President Hamid Karzai's heavily fortified palace next door. So shiny and bright does the hotel seem in comparison with the rest of the country that locals are booking weekend stays. "We are already getting walk-in guests who are living in Kabul and feel like a getaway," says sales director Vishal Sood...
...market-research firm in Eugene, Ore. That kind of volume is beginning to pay off for the hospitality industry's big guns--Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons, Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and Hyatt, among others--which have bottle-fed the fractionals concept for more than a decade. The motivation? Financing expensive hotel projects is easier and far more lucrative this way. "The time-share business has been a very good business for these companies because it tends to have high margins," says Bill Crow, an analyst with Raymond James & Associates in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Three to five to six years after...