Tourism Place Marriott's Orlando World Center

Marriott's Orlando World Center opened on March 24, 1986 which at the time was the largest hotel in Florida and is now the largest Marriott in the World. The 2,008 room 28 story building contains a nine dtory lobby atrium 38,000 square foot (3,500) m2 and also has the largest pillar free ballroom in the world featuring 105,000 square feet (9,8000 m2 of meeting space. In total there is more than 450000 square feet (42,000 m2) of meeting space six swimming pools (the main lagoon pool is the largest and best rated in all of Orlando) and 10 restaurants and lounges. The 200 acre (0.81 km2) resort property is also home to the 18 hole Hawk's Landing Golf Course and the Marriott Vacation Club resorts of Marriott's Sabal Palms Marriott's Royal Palms and Marriott's Imperial Palm Villas.

In 2002 the hotel completed building a brand new 500 room tower which made the hotel the World's Largest Marriott. In 2007 the hotel added 104,000 square feet of meeting space called the Cypress Ballroom which now connects with the Convention Center. In 2008 the resort was awarded Green Lodging certification by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Famous Stratosphere Las vegas - 2

Another statue in the center of the casino featured a couple riding a dolphin set upon a bronze globe. At its opening the resort's retail area was still largely under construction and consisted only of vendor cars spread across three areas with their own theme Chinese French and Manhattan. The tower coast $70 million to construct. The tower's pod contains 12 stories and has one and a half miles of criss crossed fiber optic cable with lights which alternate between eight different colors.

A 149 foot needle located on top of the pod consists of a five square foot steel beam frame with an internal ladder. Atop the frame are two four inch beams which form an X. The observation deck rises 872 feet. The pod included two concrete banded bunker floors located beneath its three wedding chapels for use in the event of an emergency. Stupak's critics did not believe he would be able to complete the tower in part because of his controversial promotional tactics at Vegas World. Although the resort is located north of the Las Vegas Strip it advertised itself as being on the Strip with the slogan We define the top of the Strip.

Famous Stratosphere Las Vegas

A film crew follwed Stupak all day leading up to the opening. More than 8,000 VIP guests visited the resort for a premiere pary on the night of April 29, 1996 hours before its midnight opening. Stupak McGuire. Other attendees included Nevada governor Bob Miller and Las vegas mayor Jan Laverty Jones. Media from arounf the world also attended the event which was broadcast live by CNBC as wess as television stations in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. A six minte freworks show costing $50,000 began at 10:30 p.m. Doors in the tower's pod had been left partially open to accommodate television camera cables and smoke from the fireworks filled the pod and set off fire alarms resulting in the shutdown of elevators and stranding hundreds of VIP guests. The $550 million comples featured 354,000 sq ft (32,900 m2) including 140,000 sq ft (13,000 m2) of entertainment and shopping space. A 97,000 sq ft (9,000 m2) casino was part of the resort's first phase which also included 1,500 hotel rooms.

Famous Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel - 2

The hotel opened on September 25, 1962 as the 2,000 room Americana Hotel. Itwas constructed by brothers Laurence Tisch and Preston Tisch co owners of the Loews Corporation and was thr first over 1,000 room hotel to be built in New York since the Waldorf Astoria in 1931. With 51 floors reaching up to 152.7 m (501 ft) it was acclaimed for many years in its advertising and by the media as the tallest hotel in the world based on the number and height of its inhabited floors (though the spire of the 1957 Hotel Ukraina in Moscow was taller). The Americana was built along with the New York Hilton facing Sixth Avenue on the next block to serve the huge number of tourists that the 1964 New York Worlds Fair would bring as well as the business and convention market.

The architect Morris Lapidus was the original designer of both but new owners of the Hilton Project objected and Lapidus chose to resign. The hotel was also known variously as the Americana Hotel Americana NEw York and Loews Americana of New York.