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Old Nov 4, 2011 | 2:02 pm
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Originally Posted by deer
In the contrary - my quote would be: Get out of America, such an unfriendly place (or something like that...). And open up in Portugal, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Norway instead!

Nice theoretical idea - but in fact, the owner has not sold, he has just fired GHM as the hotel management company for the Datai. Furthermore, the Datai with 100+ rooms is too large for the Aman brand. And since both Aman and GHM have Zecha as their spiritual leader, there will be little chance that an owner hands over one management contract from GHM to Aman...
Very true on all accounts.
Actually, Zecha was the one who discovered the location himself by boat at the bay where the Datai was built later.
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