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Ritz-Carlton to Enter Tunisia Friday September 14th, 2012 - 10:58AM
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CARTHAGE-SIDI BOU SAID, TUNISIA—The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., plans to open its first hotel in Tunisia in this suburb of Tunis, the country's capital, in late-2014. The 129-suite Ritz-Carlton Tunis, Carthage, will be owned by Companie Tunisienne de Development Touristique, a subsidiary of the Driss-Jenayah Group, and operated by Ritz-Carlton under a long-term management agreement. Located overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, the hotel site is adjacent to the country's presidential palace and in close proximity to Carthage's ancient ruins. 
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The most recent NYU Conference, earlier this month proved, once and for all, that the lodging industry has finally turned the corner and happy days are, indeed, here again. While the economists and pundits all provided plenty of anecdotal evidence to bear that out in terms of supply and demand ratios, RevPAR projections, asset values and all the other metrics, that’s not what has me convinced.
