AAA awards Westin Beale Four Diamonds
The Westin Memphis Beale Passage Hotel has earned a Four Diamond rating from AAA. The Four Diamond Give is given to less than 4 percent of the over 31,000 properties affiliated with AAA.
The 203-stay Westin Memphis Beale Street hotel opened in Walk 2007 and is owned by Nashville-based Senate Sociability. It is one of 15 hotels in Memphis to get a Four Diamond Award.
AAA awards the diamond ratings to give its members an viewpoint of the quality of the properties they choose to stay in. The system gives rankings from one to five, with Four Diamond hotels representing upscale services and amenities. According to the AAA ranking system, those properties’ “concrete attributes reflect an obvious enhanced level of quality throughout. The axiom hallmarks at this level include an extensive array of amenities combined with a high standing of hospitality, service and attention to detail.”
This Week in Magazines: Armani on Newspapers, Traveling With a Purpose
, In an culmination devoted to the seemingly fragile state of luxury goods. "I'd unclog the paper and see the good reviews and realize that people were noticing my designs."Hey, you retain newspapers, don't you? I know it's not cool but maybe, just dialect mayhap, you can buy one every once in a while and, at minimum, keep some of the folks we elect to office just a tad more straightforward. You know, when the cat's away, the mice will play and all that.
The Armani gossip is part of a strong, if not always novel, look at luxury in an age of recession and ache with conspicuous consumption by some members of the propertied class. We're well-versed that the champagne industry is sharply dropping prices surrounded by declining sales; the diamond industry is scurrying, with layoffs and closing of stories, as one-carat high-quality diamonds have sunk by about 20 percent in cost, with five-carat gems down 30 percent; high-end handbag makers are producing cheaper bags and accessories; with some keepsake real estate morphing into white elephants, it's at most "socially unacceptable" to brag about buying a $25 million apartment, unless you can crow about getting a bargain; and then there's the curious "artful dissonance" of "foggy luxe," namely reconciling the old and contemporary in interior furnishing, at times unreservedly melding "the decrepit with the pristine."
There are a host of socio-cultural developments indwelling in all of this, though some don't get much mention. For example, there's how the very concept of luxury had changed extensive before the recession, with a new populism in which there is mass accessibility to the highest quality of sketch, be it via Martha Stewart or Tiffany knockoffs. No matter what F. Scott Fitzgerald cerebration, the differences between the rich and the rest of us are, in some ways, less than they once were. Maybe I'll tear a stretch limo for a night on the town. --What don't we have in the lyrical strong and creative travel sector? Well, the premier of AFAR is premised on the mental picture that we're increasingly driven by a search for meaning, not necessarily consumption and play, and there are lots of tales out there about people and culture we've been missing.
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