Guoman Hotels (formerly Thistle Hotels Limited) is trying to stick it to the competition with its chain of UK hotels. Guoman Hotels company operates more than 30 hotel properties in the UK under the Guoman and Thistle brands, and is one of the largest hotel operators in London. Targeting both business and leisure travelers, its full-service, four-star hotels feature such amenities as fax, modem, and PC hookups, as well as restaurants, conference rooms, and lounges. Properties include the Thistle Marble Arch, Thistle Piccadilly, Thistle Bloomsbury, Thistle Hyde Park, and One Whitehall Place.

Hard Rock Hotel Holdings, LLC, through its subsidiary, Hard Rock Hotel, Inc., owns and operates Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. It operates Hard Rock Hotel and Casino as an entertainment resort with a rock music theme. As of December 31, 2009, the company’s resort consisted of 3 hotel towers with approximately 1,500 furnished hotel rooms; a casino with 835 slot machines and 125 table games; poker lounge with 18 tables, connected bar, retail store, a jewelry store, a lingerie store, a nightclub, a rock n’ roll bar, a banquet and meeting facility, a music concert hall, a beach club, 6 restaurants, 8 cocktail lounges, and a spa/salon/fitness center.

Herbst Gaming operates about 15 casinos, hotels, RV parks, and slot routes in Nevada and the Midwest. Its flagship property, Terrible's Sands Regency hotel and casino in downtown Reno, Nevada has more than 800 hotel rooms and some 600 slot machines, as well as table games such as blackjack, craps, and roulette. It also houses restaurants, lounges, a gift shop, and a video arcade. Other Herbst properties are located in smaller towns throughout Nevada, including Henderson, Dayton, and Primm (where its Primm Casinos subsidiary operates). In addition, the firm has a handful of locations in Iowa and Missouri. Herbst Gaming is owned by brothers Edward, Timothy, and Troy Herbst. In 2009 the company filed Chapter 11.

Hilton Grand Vacations Company, LLC, is a division of Hilton Worldwide, recognized as the leading global hospitality company. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Hilton Grand Vacations develops, markets and operates a system of brand name, high-quality vacation ownership resorts in select vacation destinations. The company also manages and operates two innovative club membership programs: Hilton Grand Vacations Club® and The Hilton Club®, providing exclusive exchange, leisure travel, and reservation services for more than 150,000 Club Members.Hilton Grand Vacations provides comprehensive on-site management services to all Club resorts, including the operation of owner rental programs, resort recreational programs and retail outlets. Additionally the company operates one of the industry's most successful resale programs for its managed resort properties. 100% of the interest in Hilton Grand Vacations is controlled by Hilton Worldwide. Hilton Worldwide develops, owns, manages or franchises hotels, resorts and vacation ownership properties.

Hilton is near the top of the hill among hoteliers in Ireland and the UK, thanks to Hilton UK & Ireland. The business operates about 80 Hilton properties in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, more than 20 of which are located in London. Its hotels include the Hilton Croydon, the Hilton London Hyde Park, and the Hilton Dublin. Hilton UK & Ireland also manages restaurants (such as Minsky's Restaurant in the Hilton Glasgow, and the Galvin at Windows in the London Hilton) and bars (Henry J Beans in Edinburgh). Hilton UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Hilton Worldwide.

Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis owns and operates a dockside casino in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, that offers gamblers a variety of table games and poker tables, as well as 1,200 slot machines. Other amenities include a 290-room hotel, meeting space, live entertainment, four restaurants, and a golf course. As a result of Hurricane Katrina, the property, then a casino barge called Casino Magic, remained closed for about a year. After renovations, it reopened as the land-based Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis. (The barge was finally hauled off to the scrap heap in 2009.) Hollywood Casino Bay St. Louis is a subsidiary of Penn National Gaming.

HTH Corporation owns and manages two hotels in Hawaii: the 837-room Pacific Beach Hotel in Waikiki and the 359-room Pagoda Hotel in Honolulu. The Pacific Beach hotel is home to the 280,000-gallon Oceanarium -- three-stories high, the aquarium houses more than 70 species of fish and is viewable from the hotel's three restaurants. The company also owns office buildings, apartments, and residential buildings that are run by its HTH Property Management subsidiary. Advertising for the corporation is managed by subsidiary HTH Advertising, Inc.

Ian Schrager -- co-founder of the famed Studio 54 in the late 1970s, who became a hipster hotelier in the 1990s -- gives his idea of modern luxury living a permanent address. The Ian Schrager Company owns, develops, and operates a hotel (Gramercy Park Hotel) and two residential properties (50 Gramercy Park North and 40 Bond) in New York City. In addition, the company's Edition brand of boutique hotel properties was created in partnership with hotel giant Marriott. Ian Schrager Company was founded in 2005 after Schrager left Morgans Hotel Group.

ILX Resorts Incorporated engages in the acquisition, development, marketing, and operation of timeshare resorts in the western United States. The company also markets and sells vacation ownership interests in the timeshare resorts, which entitle the buyers to the ownership of a furnished unit for a one-week period on either an annual or an alternate year basis. In addition, it provides purchase money financing to the buyers of vacation ownership interests at its resorts. Further, the company rents the unused or unsold units at its resorts; and sells food, beverages, and other services at its resorts. As of December 31, 2009, it operated 10 resorts consisting of 577 units and held 8,135.5 unsold vacation ownership interests in its resorts, including unsold interests in Premiere vacation club. The company was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. On March 2, 2009, ILX Resorts Incorporated, along with its affiliates, filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Arizona, Phoenix.

Inch Kenneth Kajang Rubber Public Limited Company, an investment holding company, engages in growing oil palm in Selangor, Malaysia. Inch Kenneth Kajang Rubber company operates in four segments: Plantations, Manufacturing, Tourism, and Others. The Plantations segment engages in growing and selling fresh fruit bunches. Its Manufacturing segment involves in producing and trading constant viscosity rubber blocks. The Tourism segment engages in the operation of two tourist resorts and a motel, as well as sale of food and beverages. Inch Kenneth Kajang Rubber company’s Others segment engages in the development and sale of land and properties, and leasing of buildings; trading of building materials; and holding of equity interests in quoted shares. It has operations in the Malaysia and Thailand.

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