The Ritz-Carlton is more than just a hotel. To the ladies and gentlemen who frequent the company's properties worldwide, it's a lifestyle — a desire to experience the best life has to offer, whether at home or while traveling.

To meet this expectation, The Ritz-Carlton magazine caters to its readers with compelling articles on the people, places, products and pastimes that make the modern world an interesting place to be. Like The Ritz-Carlton brand itself, the magazine mixes elegance and sophistication with a sense of energy and service that's unmatched.

The Ritz-Carlton magazine's modern design differentiates it from its competitors while also communicating the hotel company's No. 1 position in the marketplace. Not only will our magazine build and strengthen the relationship between The Ritz-Carlton and its guests, it will support and enhance the positioning of the brands within its pages.

Created around articles that are timely and relevant, The Ritz-Carlton magazine takes a fresh, original approach to imagery and typography with a color palette that makes reading each page a pleasure. Indeed, our magazine resonates deeply with discriminating readers — and its presence is undeniable. Guests are drawn to The Ritz-Carlton magazine and, in turn, to your advertisements. Without a doubt, products and services featured in The Ritz-Carlton magazine get noticed.

Essentials

• The Ritz-Carlton magazine is the largest in-room publication in the Five-Star Deluxe category
• The Ritz-Carlton is among the top five hotels in brand loyalty, as ranked by Business 2.0
• Published jointly by McMurry (No. 1 custom publisher in the U.S.) and Reader's Digest (most successful magazine in publishing history reaching 100 million readers around the world each month)

Recognition

• 2007, The Luxury Institute in its Annual Survey of Affluent Consumers awarded The Ritz-Carlton with the Number One Rating for "Best Customer Experience"
• Two-time winner of most prestigious luxury brand hotel per the Luxury Brand Status Index survey of Luxury Hotels from a sample of more than 500 households of America's wealthiest
• Two-time winner of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, an honor received by only one other American company
• Recipient of Folio's prestigious Gold Ozzie for "Best Custom Publishing Magazine Redesign", 2007 Maggie Awards "Best Color Editorial Feature", and 13 awards in 2007 and 2006 for outstanding design and editorial
• J.D. Powers ranked The Ritz-Carlton highest in guest satisfaction in the luxury market in 2007

Distribution

• More than 65 Ritz-Carlton properties worldwide
• A bonus distribution to all The Ritz-Carlton Clubs and Ritz-Carlton Residences
• Available for sale at all Ritz-Carlton boutiques and gift shops

Offering

• Award-winning design and editorial
• Local and global advertising opportunities

(From The Ritz-Carlton Magazine Media Kit)

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You can download the publication in PDF format.

In this month's magazine:

Moscow in Motion
Once again, Russia’s storied capital is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Moscow has become sexy and sophisticated—an international destination that combines a unique imperial history with chic new experiences.

Nearing midnight, the city blanketed in snow, I barrel through the dark streets of Moscow in a brand-new black Mercedes, the passenger of a wealthy Russian businessman determined to show me the high-fl ying shape of post-Soviet life. It’s December 1992. “I used to be followed by the KGB,” he says. “Now 12 of them work for me.” He laughs proudly, and hands me his new cell phone. “Go ahead, call your fi ancée in Finland.” As I punch in the number, a blizzard of white swirling around us, I make out the glow of a red star above the Kremlin.

In those fi rst months after the fall of the Soviet Union, Moscow was an intensely romantic place to visit. Street musicians were always performing the Beatles and Sting. Practically everyone you met wanted to hear about life in America and the West. (“Is it true,” I was asked, “that when you wake up in America you are already late?”) Fellow passengers on the Metro studied your clothes, fascinated and pleased to see a foreigner in their midst. There was a rich curiosity and a delicious sense of possibility in the early ‘90s after being cut off for so long.

Yet those days were also rife with instability and uncertainty, which, from an outside perspective, made much of what went on seem like sheer madness, or at least more akin to fiction. Consider: I met a brain surgeon who was dealing cards in a casino and a kindergarten teacher working as an escort in a hard-currency nightclub.

I negotiated with a naval captain whose contacts could sell me a working submarine for $30,000 (I needed one for a movie I wanted to make). I was nearly run over in Red Square by three thick slabs in a black Mercedes, then watched as they paid off a nervous policeman, ordered a photographer to snap their picture in front of Lenin’s Tomb and St. Basil’s, and smiled and waved like movie stars at the gathering crowd before driving away. ...

Face Time
From the pampered on Park Avenue to cowboys on the western range, everyone these days has a ‘facialist.’and why not? We’re all just a fine line away from ‘weathered’.

Bowing to Tradition
From the sleek new architecture and futuristic finds of Roppongi to ringing bells at Meiji shrine, Tokyo draws from the past and conjures the future.

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Puttin' on the ritz is second nature to this hotelier. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company operates 70 luxury hotels in more than 20 countries offering premium accommodations and amenities for both business and leisure travelers. Its hotels can be found in prime destinations and are consistently rated among the best in the world.

A subsidiary of hotel giant Marriott International, the company also manages four Ritz-Carlton Club time-share properties.

Ritz-Carlton was established in 1983 when real estate mogul and former CEO William Johnson acquired the rights to the name made famous by Swiss hotelier César Ritz. (Google Finance)

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