Originally Posted by
sc flier
This
article from the UK seems to give a little different twist to the story.
A couple excerpts from the article:
"Now the city council and American-owned Starwood Hotels will refurbish the crumbling hotels and rebuild the island's airport, tennis courts, golf courses, cinema and hippodrome."
"Together with Starwood Hotels, the fund has bought the Excelsior and Des Bains hotels, the Villa Cipriani di Asolo and 1,400 bathing huts along the beach."
Yes- this is absolutely correct for the Lido hotels. The Lido hotels, and the Island in genral, are part of a much larger project- you can look at the Commune information if you want to go into detail. The case in question here, I believe, is the Asolo hotel- no information known at this point as far as I know...