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The Hermitage Hotel in Mount Cook Village, New Zealand, is a hotel located inside the Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park, 65 kilometres (40 mi) north of Twizel. [3] The current building dates from 1958 and forms the main part of Mount Cook Village, being the only large building.
The Cairo Tower (Egyptian Arabic: برج القاهرة, Borg El-Qāhira) is a free-standing concrete tower in Cairo, Egypt. At 187 m (614 ft), it was the tallest structure in Egypt for 37 years until 1998, when it was surpassed by the Suez Canal overhead powerline crossing .
The 966-room original wing of the hotel opened in 1974 as the Hotel Meridien Cairo. [2] In 2001, the $380 million, 715-room, 41-floor Nile Tower wing, with a revolving restaurant and a shopping mall, was added, [ 2 ] and the hotel was relaunched in August 2001 [ 3 ] as Le Royal Méridien Cairo & Nile Tower . [ 4 ]
Cobh (/ ˈ k oʊ v / KOHV, Irish: An Cóbh), known from 1849 until 1920 as Queenstown, is a seaport town on the south coast of County Cork, Ireland. With a population of 14,418 inhabitants at the 2022 census , [ 2 ] Cobh is on the south side of Great Island in Cork Harbour and home to Ireland's only dedicated cruise terminal .
The high society of Washington often held meetings at the Cairo Hotel, such as that between the Woman's National Democratic League [7] and a Congressman from New Mexico in 1913. On June 16, 1906, Congressman Rufus E. Lester, Democrat of Georgia, died after an accident in which he fell through a skylight on the roof of the Cairo, where he ...
Cairo Tower (1960), the tallest concrete structure in Egypt, built near the Gezira Sporting Club. [2] Egyptian Opera House (1988), built near the Cairo Tower. [3] El Sawy Culture Wheel Centre (2003) (Arabic: ساقية الصاوى), located beneath 15 May Bridge in Zamalek, one of the most important cultural venues in Egypt. [4]
Queenstown International Airport (IATA: ZQN, ICAO: NZQN) is an international airport located in Frankton, Otago, New Zealand, which serves the resort town of Queenstown. The airport handled 2.10 million passengers as of 2024, [ 3 ] making it the fourth busiest airport in New Zealand by passenger traffic.
Kirk Kerkorian is credited for building the first mega-resort in 1969 earning him the nickname "father of the mega-resort". [citation needed] Two projects in Las Vegas in 1969 and 1973 [3] [4] [5] by architect Martin Stern, Jr. and entrepreneur Kirk Kerkorian, the International Hotel and the MGM Grand, set the standard for such casino resorts.