Hotel employee jailed for having Sex with guest

(Hospitality Business News) December 30, 2010 - According to local reports a South African hotel employee who was working in Dubai was sentenced December 28, 2010 to six months in jail for having sex with a guest and getting an abortion when she became pregnant.

The woman was charged with committing zina, the Sharia offence of having sex outside of wedlock, and of aborting a 4 month old fetus. The maximum sentence is 100 lashes and five years in prison.

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Court detains three in hotel fraud

 (Hospitality Business News) December 30, 2010 - - - According to reports a Nigerian court has ordered three persons remanded in custody for their alleged involvement in a failed deal to construct a 5-star hotel in Minna.

The accused persons, Tanko Angulu, Mohammed Balaba, and Musa Wara, through SOCACIC West Africa Ltd, signed an MOU with the Niger State government to build a 5 star hotel with a total cost of N25 billion (US$ 165,000,000).

The Commissioner of Justice stated that once the MOU was signed the Government released it’s portion of the “counterpart fund” to the contractor. An amount of N500 million (US$3.3M). The Commissioner further explained that the contractors failed to start the project.

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Hard Rock Hotel hit with $500,000 fine over drugs

Even after Nevada casinos were warned that drug use and other illegal activity wouldn't be tolerated in nightclubs and other venues, Las Vegas Hard Rock hotel-casino employees and supervisors broke the law by selling drugs and providing private restrooms so patrons could have sex and take drugs.
That's according to the state Gaming Control Board, which filed a complaint against the hotel-casino Wednesday.

Without admitting or denying the allegations, the Hard Rock agreed to settle the matter by paying a $500,000 fine and paying $75,000 apiece to the Gaming Control Board and Metro Police to cover investigative costs.

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Police suspect a second case of arson in less than 24 hours

Police are investigating a suspicious fire at an Italian restaurant in Saint-Leonard, the second suspected case of arson at a restaurant in less than 24 hours.
The first floor of a commercial building housing Ristorante Rimi at 8760 Pascal Gagnon St was apparently set ablaze at around 8:45 p.m. Wednesday evening.
Firefighters found two broken windows in the rear and Montreal police say the back door of the building was broken into.
A resident saw smoke coming from the restaurant and called the fire department, allowing them to quickly get the fire under control before it spread to the second floor of the building.
The incident came one night after another suspected firebombing at Café Calypso in Montreal North just after midnight very early Wednesday morning.

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Primm hotel furnished from bankrupt Vegas casino

Dressers, chairs and night stands once destined for the Las Vegas Strip have been moved to a casino near the California-Nevada border after its owners bought the furnishings from billionaire Carl Icahn.

Furnishings sold from the shuttered Fontainebleau Las Vegas project are now in Buffalo Bill's, a casino-hotel along Interstate 15 in Primm. Even some of the carpeting intended for the Fontainebleau has been installed in the corridors of the 1,242-room hotel at Buffalo Bill's.

The furniture cost about $1.5 million, part of a nearly $3 million remodeling of Buffalo Bill's, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

The casino about 40 miles southwest of Las Vegas shut down last month to remodel guest rooms, add a Denny's Restaurant and introduce an energy efficiency program. It reopened Dec. 23.

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Elbit Imaging sells stakes in 3 London hotels

Elbit Imaging Ltd. (Nasdaq: EMITF; TASE: EMIT) today sold its holdings in three London hotels for ₤21 million to its partner in them, Park Plaza Hotels Ltd. (AIM:PPH). The deal comes a day after it bought seven shopping centers in the US.

Elbit Imaging, controlled by chairman Mordechai Zisser owned 45% of the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel and the Park Plaza Sherlock Holmes Hotel and 50% of the Park Plaza Victoria Hotel. Park Plaza, controlled by chairman Eli Papouchado, manages the hotels. Park Plaza will also assume Elbit Imaging's ₤11.9 million guarantees to Aareal Bank AG.

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London's Grosvenor House hotel sold for GBP 470M

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