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Hotel Indigo launches programme allowing locals to borrow everyday items – Business Traveller
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Hotel Indigo launches programme allowing locals to borrow everyday items – Business Traveller

IHG’s Hotel Indigo brand has launched a new programme enabling locals to borrow everyday items such as sugar, olive oil, salt and pepper, and tea and coffee from its hotels. Borrowed by Hotel Indigo, inspired by its latest marketing campaign ‘The World’s Neighbourhood Hotel, invites people who live in the same zip code or postcode to “borrow” everyday necessities. Participating hotels will have display signage at check-in, outlining what’s available to borrow, and items will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis – they are not available to reserve or hold. Staff members will assemble and package the items in a tote bag for them to take away. There is no cost to borrow the items, nor a requirement to return the items. The programme is in place at select properties in the US and ...
A Local’s Guide to Majorca
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A Local’s Guide to Majorca

T’s new monthly travel series, Flocking To, highlights places you might already have on your wish list, sharing tips from frequent visitors and locals alike. Sign up here to find us in your inbox once a month, as well as our weekly T List newsletter. And you can always reach us at tlist@nytimes.com.Majorca, the largest of Spain’s Balearic Islands, has been a classic summer destination for Europeans and Brits for decades. But long before the big resorts sprung up along the coastline and villas came with helipads, the island’s hilltop villages attracted artists, musicians and writers in search of year-round sun and solitude. Among the best known of those early visitors were the Polish composer Frédéric Chopin and the French novelist George Sand, who spent the winter of 1838 in the town of V...