In the posh lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Naples last Christmas, the club level concierge was British, the air conditioning was turned up to 11, and snow birds from the east coast huddled around a larger-than-life gingerbread house crowing, “It’s ...
This is the back of Director of Golf Steve Murphy, who runs operations at Princeville’s Prince Golf Course. Steve has an easy job, given that the Prince is a Robert Trent Jones, Jr., classic, one of the highest rated courses in the state. ...
American Airlines thinks Santa Fe is red hot. So does Rob Harper, the head of real estate development for Dallas-based Unity Hunt, Inc. And so does the Blackstone Group, the giant hedge fund operator that owns Hilton Hotels, which recently opened a ...
Chances are good that you’ve never been to Wales. Sir Terry Matthews hopes to change that. Matthews is the billionaire owner of Celtic Manor, the U.K. golf resort in the Usk Valley that will host the 2010 Ryder Cup and where Matthews estimates ...
All over the Vail Valley, the call to action is unmistakable. Cyclists outnumber cars on side streets. Thousand-dollar bicycles serpentine down steep mountain trails. Vehicles surrender to pedestrians throughout most of the Beaver Creek resort, ...
Cancun’s airport could be anywhere. Throngs of fluffy Americans draped in matching polo shirts or stuffed into too-tight track suits struggle to hoist their steamer trunks from the scraped metal leaves of the baggage carousel. Some are more ...
Close your eyes and think of Vail, Colo. Most likely, the image that comes to mind is snow-peaked mountains covered with a thick blanket of pines, their forest seams stitched together by threads of ski runs and winding streams. Not surprising, since ...