ooking after and exceeding the needs of
            
            
              each and every guest is at the very
            
            
              foundation of the Ritz-Carlton success
            
            
              story. The hotel is considered the gold standard
            
            
              of hospitality because of the conviction that
            
            
              employees are the face of their company, and
            
            
              that service isn't just part of the brand, it is the
            
            
              brand. Attention to detail is bound to have a
            
            
              positive effect on guests and Ritz-Carlton are
            
            
              justifiably proud of the high percentage of
            
            
              repeat business from contented customers.
            
            
              With a legacy that stretches back over 100 years
            
            
              to the very birth of the modern, luxury hotel,
            
            
              Ritz-Carlton today offers a prestigious global
            
            
              network of 81 properties with a further 11 set to
            
            
              open shortly in exciting new locations like
            
            
              Tamuda Bay in Morocco, Bangalore in India and
            
            
              Molasses Bay in the Turks & Caicos. We hope to
            
            
              showcase these and other properties in future
            
            
              issues but for the moment we felt it would be
            
            
              appropriate to highlight three stars from the
            
            
              collection reflecting varied opportunities to
            
            
              discover special places in the company of Ritz-
            
            
              Carlton - Vienna, NewYork and Okinawa (see left).
            
            
              For those of you who would perhaps like to see
            
            
              the bar placed even higher then mention should
            
            
              be made of the Ritz-Carlton Club Level. To be
            
            
              found at many of the hotels, this exclusive
            
            
              domain offers club level guests even more
            
            
              individualised attention with dedicated lounges
            
            
              where delicious food offerings are prepared
            
            
              throughout the day  and a personal concierge is
            
            
              available to assist you with everything from
            
            
              hard-to-get restaurant reservations to changing
            
            
              your airline flights.
            
            
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              Discovering Ritz-Carlton
            
            
              Hotels of distinction in very special places where service comes first.
            
            
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              The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, Georgia, USA