New Yorkers know about quality. It is the home of Fashion Avenue and Madison Avenue where you either have to come with quality or don’t come at all. The same is true of hotels in New York City; if they do not have a high standard for quality of furnishings, service and amenities they won’t survive in the Big Apple.

New York may be ‘The city that never sleeps’, but when visitors retreat to their hotels in New York City they expect and demand luxury. New York hotels deliver just that. Gourmet meals, plush appointments and spectacular service are the norm. Luxury New York hotels host the best bred and best known people on the planet; Sultans, kings of industry and power brokers from all over the planet lay their heads in beds in New York hotels. No less than the best will do for these international power brokers and luxury New York hotels do not disappoint. Need a room with an incredible view, hand woven sheets and want your pet panther pampered too? No problem when you are in New York. They have been catering to the refined tastes of their stately guests since the City Hotel, America’s first real hotel, opened here in 1794 and they have mastered the art.

When you book your New York luxury holidays you can be rest assured that all your needs will be superbly met. Within New York luxury hotels, your every wish is their command. They can provide personal chefs to cook exotic dinners in your room, luxurious oversized baths with rapidly filling tubs, saunas, steam rooms and massages upon request, the latest in personal grooming equipment, personal butlers and tailors, glassed in atriums and balconies that give you an awesome view of the twinkling lights on the “Great White Way”.

Numerous luxury New York hotels can offer suites tailored to your specific taste. Want a room decorated with period furniture and numerous fireplaces? No problem at the fine hotels this city offers! You can have a suite decorated with fine antiques, beautiful furnishings, fireplaces, Bulgari bathroom products, free standing marble tubs, fine European bed linens and gigantic feather beds. Dawn can find you taking private tai chi classes in a garden with a breath-taking view of the city.

Several Business Schools in New York offer online/distance learning and campus-based programs for a variety of business-related areas. The city’s two most prestigious business schools are Columbia Business School and New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. Both the business schools have accreditation from AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business). While both the universities offer full-time and executive MBA degrees, joint degrees, and doctoral programs (PhD), only Stern School of Business offers part-time MBA and bachelor’s degrees. Between the two of them, they offer MBA degrees in accounting, e-Commerce, decision, risk and operations, entrepreneurship, finance and economics, general management, management of information systems, media, entertainment and communications, human resource management, international business, marketing, social enterprise, operations management, real estate, strategy and statistics, and operations research.

Yet another good business school in New York is The S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management (JGSM), also referred to as the Johnson School. Apart from offering undergraduate dual-degree programs and graduate dual-degree programs, its also offers MBA’s in various forms, such as the twelve-month option MBA (for those with advanced science/technical degrees), executive MBA program, boardroom executive MBA, and PhD in Business.

Business Schools such as DeVry University and ITT Technical Institute also offer MBA programs to students. DeVry University also provides campus-based degree programs in biomedical engineering technology, biomedical informatics, computer engineering technology, health information technology, technical management, and network and communications management. On the other hand, ITT Technical Institute, apart from providing campus-based degree programs, also provides online degree courses to its students. ITT offers a host of technology programs that can help students develop the knowledge and skills to begin a technical career.