Author: Ms. R.

The hospitality industry is generally recognised as a section of the wider service industry, with a focus on leisure, rather than more basic needs. In this article, you will learn more about the nature of the hospitality industry, the various sectors contained within it, and its connections to the hotel industry and travel industry. Quick menu: What is the Hospitality Industry? The Difference Between the Hospitality Industry and the Travel Industry Sectors Within the Hospitality Industry Accommodation Food &……

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Her physical adventures have been curtailed by agoraphobia and anxiety, but from her home in London, Jacqui Kenny has seen the world. Since 2016, she has wandered beneath cerulean skies in the American Southwest and among the shadows cast by tapered trees in Puebla, Mexico. She has visited horses on windswept expanses in Mongolia and ambled along a snow-flanked road in Kyrgyzstan. She has done it all through Google Street View, and collected some 40,000 snapshots of her travels…….

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A compact cardboard box full of recipes on index cards was a hot item at a virtual rare book fair earlier this month, selling for $1,650. But this wasn’t your average recipe box. Instead, Lucille’s Treasure Chest of Fine Foods was the work of Lucille Bishop Smith, a trailblazing Black chef, educator, and entrepreneur whose legacy lives on, at both a Houston restaurant named for her and in her sought-after collection of recipes. Smith was born in Crockett, Texas,……

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The rugged and mountainous Amalfi Coast offers a countless scenic views and wonderful beaches, but among the most unique features in the area is the narrow opening known as Fiordo di Furore. Fiordo di Furore, which is actually a ria, not a fjord, is an inlet created by the Schiato torrent that flows between the rocks, creating a valley that opens to the sea. It is located near the small town of Furore, with the name coming from Latin……

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As racial justice protests continue to erupt in cities across the world, prompted by the killings of George Floyd and many other Black Americans, so too has another phenomenon: the proliferation of murals honoring their lives and critiquing systemic oppression. The murals are united in their themes, but artists everywhere are adding their own unique spin. #CreativesAfterCurfew Minneapolis, Minnesota The artist Leslie Barlow lives just a few blocks away from the Cup Foods where a police officer killed George……

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A life-size statue of Jackson the elephant stands in the parking lot of the Eat’nPark, just south of exit 110, off the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The statue not only honors Jackson, but also Somerset County’s elephant breeding ranch. After Jackson joined the Pittsburgh Zoo in 1994, his prolific mating ability quickly filled the available elephant space at the zoo, which prompted it to create the International Conservation Center in Fairhope. The 724-acre property has a 10,000-square-foot elephant barn, with heated……

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The 19th century terraced house located at 575 Wandsworth Road in London is a work of art. Over two decades, Khadambi Asalache, a Kenyan-born poet, novelist, math philosopher and British civil servant, renovated the house and turned it into a breathtaking structure. Born in Kenya, Asalache studied architecture and fine art in Nairobi before immigrating to London in 1960. In 1967, he published a novel, A Calabash of Life, as well as a poetry collection, Sunset in Naivasha in 1973. He……

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The town of Cori, the ancient Cora, located on the Lepini mountains southeast of Rome, contains the ruins of the Temple of Hercules, as well as the more fragmentary Temple of the Dioscuri. Castor and Pollux, the Dioscuri, were two semi-divine half brothers (sons of Leda, Zeus, and Tyndareus, the king of Sparta), with Pollux being immortal and Castor becoming immortal after they were transformed into the constellation Gemini.  Their cult was popular in the Roman world, and the temple……

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