Las Vegas, Hong Kong Hoteliers Receive Top Honors.DES PLAINES, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--November 4, 1994--Stephen Wynn, chairman of Mirage Resorts Inc., Las Vegas, and Onno Poortier, president of the Peninsula Group, Hong Kong, are the 1994 Hoteliers Of The World, as selected by the readers of HOTELS, the magazine of the worldwide hotel industry. The November HOTELS carries profiles of each gentleman. Wynn, the Independent Hotelier Of The World, and Poortier, the Corporate Hotelier Of The World, will accept their awards in New York on Monday, Nov. 14 at 3 p.m. in the Jacob Javits Center, room 1A04, during the International Hotel/Motel & Restaurant Show. Stephen A. Wynn, the 9th Independent Hotelier Of The World, has transformed Las Vegas from a gambling venue for adults into a multi-dimensional resort destination. Wynn's resorts include the Mirage, where a volcano erupts every 15 minutes, and Treasure Island, where a mock sea battle is staged nightly. Wynn said he intends to continue to build megaresorts where gaming will be just one of many attractions. Previous recipients of the Independent Hotelier Of The World award are: 1993 Ted Kleisner, The Greenbrier greenbrier: see smilax. , West Virginia 1992 Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. Bucher Wirth, Hotel Hassler, Rome 1991 Ted Wright, The Cloister cloister, unroofed space forming part of a religious establishment and surrounded by the various buildings or by enclosing walls. Generally, it is provided on all sides with a vaulted passageway consisting of continuous colonnades or arcades opening onto a court. , Sea Island, Georgia Sea Island is an isolated resort island located in Glynn County just off the Atlantic coast of southern Georgia in the United States. Sea Island is part of the group of islands known as the Golden Isles of Georgia together with Jekyll Island, St. Simons Island, and Little St. 1990 Jack Vaughn, Opryland Hotel, Nashville 1989 Christopher B. Hemmeter, Hemmeter Corp., Honolulu 1988 Ichiro Inumaru, Imperial Hotel, Tokyo Tokyo's Imperial Hotel was the best-known of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings in Japan. The original Imperial Hotel in Tokyo was built in 1890. To replace the original wooden structure, the owners commissioned a design by Wright, which was completed in 1923. 1987 Helge Holgersen, Grand Hotel, Oslo 1986 James A. Nassikas, Stanford Court Hotel The Stanford Court hotel is a hotel in the Nob Hill district of San Francisco, California. It is located between Fisherman's Wharf and Union Square and it is directly on the cable car line. It has 393 room on 8 floors and 3 lifts. , San Francisco Onno Poortier, age 50, the 15th Corporate Hotelier Of The World, is a Dutch national who joined the company in 1979. He is at the center of the Peninsula Group, a division of Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Ltd. Poortier has re-focused the direction of the Peninsula Group, presided over its growth, developed technology to provide ever-increasing levels of guest service and set new standards for how a luxury hotel should look after guests and owners. The Peninsula Group manages 6 hotels (in New York, Beverly Hills, Manila, Bejiing and two in Hong Kong). A seventh is under construction in Bangkok. Previous recipients of the Corporate Hotelier Of The World award are: 1993 Michael Hit, Hilton International, London 1992 Juergen Bartels, Carlson Hospitality Group, Minneapolis 1991 Horst H. Schulze, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., Atlanta 1990 Bernd Chorengel, Hyatt International, and Darryl Hartley- Leonard, Hyatt Hotels Corp., Chicago 1989 John Kapioltas, ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Sheraton Corp., Boston 1988 Isadore Sharp, Four Seasons Hotels, Toronto 1987 Robert Burns, Regent International Hotels Regent hotel is brand of luxury hotels, part of the Carlson Companies, currently operating six hotels in Asia, USA and Europe. Originating in Hong Kong in 1970, in 1990s Regent brand was part of Four Seasons hotel chain until 1997, when it was acquired by Carlson Companies. , Hong Kong 1986 J. Willard Marriott John Willard Marriott (September 17, 1900 – August 13, 1985) was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the founder of the Marriott Corporation (which became Marriott International in 1993), the parent company of one of the world's largest hospitality, hotel chains Jr., Marriott Corp., Washington, D.C. 1985 Howard P. James, ITT Sheraton Corp., Boston 1984 Hans Sternik, Inter-Continental Hotels Corp., London 1983 M.S. Oberoi, Oberoi Hotels, Delhi 1982 Lord Forte, Trusthouse Forte Plc (now Forte Plc), London 1981 Paul Dubrule, Gerard Pelisson, Accor, Paris 1980 Friedrich Jahn, Wienerwald International, Feusisberg, Switzerland HOTELS is a monthly business magazine with circulation of 60,000 in more than 150 countries. HOTELS is published in Des Plaines, Illinois “Des Plaines” redirects here. For the river, see Des Plaines River. Des Plaines (pronounced IPA [dɛsˈpleɪnz]) is a city in Cook County, Illinois, United States. by Cahners Publishing Co., a division of Reed Publishing USA, the largest publisher of specialized publications in the United States. CONTACT: HOTELS
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