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Accor Hotels’ First MGallery in Downtown Doha

2012-04-03 by Phil Butler

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Accor Group, the world’s leading hotel operator with some 4400 plus hotels in 90 countries, has just announced a deal with Qatar’s Msheireb Hospitality for operating the Msheireb Downtown Doha project., an Accor Hotels MGallery hotel in the city’s prime business district. This luxury boutique offering expands upon traditional Qatari hospitality with a truly original thematic scheduled to open in 2015.

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Bulgaria’s Kazanlak Rose Festival 2011

2011-05-31 by Aleksandr Shatskih

The Rose Festival

If ever a flower needed to be a national symbol, then the rose was certainly meant for Bulgaria. In keeping with this, next month the world famous (but somehow under-publicized) Kazanlak Rose Festival gets underway. Scheduled for June 4th and 5th, this historic event pays tribute to the legacy of this amazing flower in Bulgarian history and commerce.

Tags: Black Sea festivals, Bulgaria hotels, Bulgaria travel, Bulgarian festivals, Bulgarian rose, historic festivals, Kazanlak Rose Festival, national flowers, Novotel, Novotel Plovdiv, rose oil, rose perfume, roses

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