The Airbnb platform has done more than create a different way for people to travel. It has created an entirely new breed of entrepreneur. A person can live anywhere in the world and still participate in the Airbnb platform…if he or she follows certain strategies. Entrepreneur and real estate expert Andrew Keene will teach you these strategies. You don't have to start out wealthy to make them work. You don't have to already be a real estate mogul....

Footprintfocus Cádiz & Costa de la Luz is the only dedicated guide available covering this popular Spanish destination. Features an Essentials section with practical tips to help plan a trip, detailed information on attractions and comprehensive listings of where to eat, sleep and have fun. • Essentials section with tips on getting there and around • Up-to-date recommendations of great places to stay and eat • Highlights map of the region...

The Lido Club Hotel officially opened in June 1928 as a swanky oceanfront resort adjacent to the world-class Lido Golf Course. Built by Sen. William H. Reynolds, who previously bought and developed nearby Long Beach, the Lido Club Hotel featured a striking architectural design with twin cupolas and became a playground for socialites, industrialists, and politicians. In 1942, the US Navy requisitioned the hotel as a naval training and separation center....

The only guide you'll need for getting around Kyoto & Nara. Everything you need is in this one convenient package-including a large pull-out map! This brand new Japan travel guide by award-winning author Rob Goss, a longtime Japan resident, is designed for people with limited time. It covers not only the unique UNESCO World Heritage sites but also bustling Nishiki-koji street market and many smaller shrines and temples where enchanting moss and tree...

Yosemite National Park is a place of extraordinary natural beauty with renowned waterfalls, spectacular granite rock formations, and serene meadows. Although indigenous peoples already inhabited Yosemite, settlers of European descent found their way there beginning in 1851. To serve the steady growth of tourists and visitors, lodging and accommodations have always been central to the park's history. The popularity of postcards starting in the early...

Recounts the holiday of Edith Hope, meek, unmarried, and thirty-nine, who, on the mend from a disastrous love affair, becomes intimately involved with her fellow guests at the Swiss Hotel du Lac.

"A surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves--if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. That is, until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt's hotel. The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and distracting...

Timberline is a ski lodge on the slopes of Mt. Hood, Oregon, only 65 miles from Portland. Between 1936 and 1938 and in the middle of the Great Depression, it was hand built and furnished through the Works Progress Administration. When Pres. Franklin Roosevelt came to Oregon in 1937 to dedicate the lodge, its significance as a New Deal success was confirmed. Timberline stands today as an icon of New Deal art and Cascadian architecture. Its rustic style...

The Mayflower Park Hotel started life as the Bergonian Hotel on July 16, 1927. One of Seattle's first uptown hotels, it was designed by architect B. Dudley Stuart and built by Stephen Berg at a cost of $750,000. In the midst of the Great Depression, the hotel was sold and renamed Hotel Mayflower. In 1948, Washington State legalized cocktail lounges, and the Hotel Mayflower became Seattle's first hotel to open one. In the ensuing decades, Seattle prospered,...

Explores twenty-three national park lodges located in California, the Southwest, the Rocky Mountains, the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, and Alaska. Presents a tour of the historic national park lodges of the American West, covering Old Faithful Inn, Ahwahne Hotel, El Tovar, Zion Lodge, Grand Canyon Lodge, Bryce Canyon Lodge, Glacier Park Lodge, Belton Chalet, Lake McDonald Lodge, Sperry and Granite Park Chalets, Many Glacier Hotel, Paradise Inn, Timberline...