TUPELO • A new ownership group for the the Hilton Garden Inn is planning an extensive multi-million-dollar renovation of the 158-room hotel in downtown Tupelo.
“I remember the first time I came here, thinking, this is the most beautiful place I have ever seen,” says Australian multimillionaire Ian Gowrie-Smith of the day, 20 years ago, when he decided to buy the Conflict Group of 21 uninhabited islands surrounding a deep water lagoon in a remote corner of Papua New Guinea (PNG). “It was an impulse.