A remote Newfoundland community spent CA$41 million on 29 rooms, then removed private profit from the equation. The result is a luxury hotel whose most interesting amenity is an economic model other places can actually borrow.
Two hotels, six golf courses, ten dining venues and a cellar with thousands of labels make this Sussex County resort less a hotel than a choose-your-own weekend - close enough to New York that nobody needs a boarding pass.
Accor began with a roadside Novotel and grew into a 45-brand hospitality system. Its most valuable room may now be the one it never owns.