My self serving plug for Paramount version 4.0

Our company Paramount Lodging Advisors continues to change itself to deliver what clients need from a hotel broker, essentially ethics and advocacy. Question is how is this a novel idea? Sadly I think it is.

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Winning Paris... and everything else

Quirky travel contest blog about one woman's attempt to win a trip to Paris as she riffs about her favorite French films, must-see museums, hot hotels, ravishing restaurants, novels set in the city, and more. Every post is accompanied by a relevant contest link, so you may win, too!

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Ian O'Doherty: Only one group could be behind the latest hit

It was the assassination heard around the world. In scenes reminiscent of something from a Freddie Forsyth novel, a supposedly crack team of 11 hit men (that woman was almost certainly a man in drag) entered a hotel in Dubai, targeted a top Hamas terrorist and promptly took him out, before finding their faces splashed all over the world.

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How the Dubai Assassination Is & Isnt Like a Spy Novel (Vid)

The murder last month of a Hamas leader in his Dubai hotel room has been followed by weeks of ever-stranger revelations. The dozen or so assassins were costumed, some wearing wigs or fake beards. They were caught on tape. Their Irish and British passports were fraudulent or stolen from Britons living in Israel.

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