Recession-fed tensions grow in luxury hotel industry
| Owners and managers are at odds over how much to spend on keeping up deluxe properties, where bottom lines are sufferings as travelers scale back.
At the tranquil Four Seasons Resort Aviara north of San Diego, a heated struggle for control of the deluxe hotel's future is playing out in a rare public spat. 07/03/2009 05:00 (LaTimes business) Continue to read news >> |
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