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The owner of Regent Plaza, a five-star hotel in Karachi, has informed investors that the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) Trust, a leading non-profit organization in the healthcare sector, has expressed interest in acquiring the hotel. The current market rate for PHDL’s shares is Rs 220.04 per share and a 100 percent acquisition of the hotel at this rate would be worth Rs 3.96 billion. The company’s latest annual accounts show that it values its main real estate at Rs 8.9 billion, with the hotel building valued at Rs 939.2 million.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 142 represents 2,700 members who work in West Maui. Historically, the union’s workers used to work on the plantations, but many workers now work in the hospitality industry.

Santa Monica hotel workers at Fairmont Miramar, Le Méridien Delfina Santa Monica, Viceroy Santa Monica, Hampton Inn & Suites Santa Monica and Courtyard Santa Monica walked out on Monday following a stalemate in pay increase negotiations, the Los Angeles Times reported. The strike comes amid efforts by Unite Here Local 11 to raise the salaries of hotel workers who are particularly impacted by a looming housing crisis. The union is partly urging hotels to instantly increase workers’ hourly wages by $5 before raising them by $3 annually for two consecutive years.

The EU vetoed a bid by US online travel agency Booking to take over Swedish rival Etraveli Group Monday over fears the deal would harm competition and risked raising prices for customers. The European Commission, the bloc's powerful antitrust enforcer, opened an investigation in November last year amid concerns the merger would allow Booking to become too dominant in the market for finding hotels and other accommodation online.

Through a recent statement, the Spanish Ministry of the Interior said that during the police operation carried out in Spain by the French National Police, in collaboration with Europol, two bags were discovered hidden in a compartment containing stolen items worth over €750,000, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Martin Hyde, the general manager of a New York City-based Indian restaurant Dillons sued both Gordon Ramsay and 'Kitchen Nightmares' for $620,128 (£500,000). He claimed that the treatment he got on the show ruined his career.

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The incident triggered wide discussion among netizens over the rising price of hotel rooms amid a strong recovery in domestic travel during the upcoming holidays. Local fire authorities received a report claiming that one hotel under the chain Greentree Inn Express was marketing a "stairwell room," which is only six square meters in size and has closed windows.

According to the magistrate's complaint, officers with the Guam Police Department responded to a theft of property complaint at Garden Villa Hotel in Tumon where they met with a woman who reported she was with her friends when she was approached by a man who tried to grab her purse. "She stated that the unknown male had a black handgun pointed at her and that he was wearing a sweat shirt, was slim built and was wearing a face mask," the complaint stated.

The daughter, who previously stayed in Geneva, Switzerland, went to New York to join Algeria's Permanent Representation to the UN. For more than two months, the situation of the daughter of the head of the Algerian army, Said Chengriha, has provoked various voices within the Algerian parliament to call on the government to explain the expenses involved in her stay and her duties. According to Maghreb Intelligence, the official version of the Algerian government is that the reason for the transfer is to take up a post in the Permanent Representation of Algeria to the UN.

Chennai: The food department of Tamil Nadu will conduct raids in hotels across the state after a 14-year-old girl died of food poisoning in Namakkal district a couple of days ago. State health Minister Ma Subramanian has ordered the food department officials to conduct raids to find out the violators. The minister directed officials to check whether the restaurants were following food safety guidelines. The quality of the food served will be checked and those will be fined where sub-standard food is served, said the minister.

According to an affidavit obtained by KVUE, the security guard suffered a severed nerve and artery in his left arm.

On Monday, Sept. 4, The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) received a call to the Grove Resort and Water Park in Orange County. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office was asking for assistance in dealing with a young alligator that a woman was keeping in her hotel room’s bathtub. According to FWC, she “borrowed” the alligator without permission to take pictures with for her five-day stay at the resort for her birthday.

Yarmouth Police received a 911 call with an open line and a woman heard screaming shortly before 4:00 a.m., according to radio transmissions. The call led officers to a hotel room at the Days Inn on Route 28, where they found a woman badly beaten and bleeding. She was also robbed of her valuables. The suspects, a woman and a man, fled on foot.

NATIONAL CITY — Guests staying at a National City hotel were awakened by fire alarms early Thursday after a blaze in a dumpster sent smoke into the building, officials said. The fire at the Best Western Marina Gateway Hotel on Bay Marina Drive was reported around 3:40 a.m. in a large trash dumpster.

An alleged drug dealer was apprehended Friday after she was seen with 68 bags of suspected heroin, a loaded gun, and ammunition at Atlantic City’s Ocean Casino Resort.

A Japanese tourist who discovered her restaurant bill had soared to $1,000 took the matter up with the police, saying she wasn't properly informed of the meal's cost.

When they realized that there were no hotel employees anywhere to be found, they did what any fun-loving group would do – take over the hotel! The group of friends documented some of their hotel takeover adventure on TikTok and viewers had jokes to add to the hilarious situation.

A hotel in Wales has been fined £40,000 after failing to meet basic food hygiene standards. Ruthin Castle Hotel, whose past guests include King Charles, is owned by Ruby Hotel Collection Holdings who admitted its failures after an inspection in August last year.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss the recent rollout of updates for listings and price and fee transparency.

Jared Leto is known for his often-eccentric behavior. The actor and lead singer of the group Thirty Seconds To Marsput himself in serious danger on Tuesday after free climbing the giant wall of the five-star 'Hotel de Rome' in Berlin.

Josue Payamps, 33, was working an administrative job for a security company at the Holiday Inn’s LaGuardia West site on 10th Street near 37th Avenue in Dutch Kills – which is being used to house migrants – when he got into a fight with one of the asylum seekers on Sept. 5, the sources said. Payamps was fired from the company following the violent feud with the 28-year-old migrant, the sources said. But he returned to the hotel around 8:30 p.m. the same day and got into another fight with the same man, according to the sources.

Owners of the business told police they suspect the former employee kept "money from the tip pool that should have been distributed among the workers," Edwardsville Police Department reports state.

A chic watering hole frequented by supermodel Kate Moss must make 'major improvements' to the way it manages and carries out food preparation. Ms Moss has been a regular at the foodies pub which has a restaurant with chandelier, oil paintings and distinctive postage stamp wallpaper.