Revenue is the lifeblood of any hotel. The more effectively you generate, capture, and optimize it, the more successful your property will be. But too many revenue managers still rely on outdated revenue strategies, legacy metrics and clunky technology that hold them back. The result? Missed opportunities and money left on the table. Modern revenue The post The Five Building Blocks of Hotel Revenue Maximization appeared first on Revfine.com….
Tucked between classrooms and coffee-fueled study sessions, a massive concrete slab stands outside Kennesaw State University’s Social Sciences building. This 10-foot-tall, 2.7-ton piece of the Berlin Wall once served as a brutal barrier between East and West Germany. Today, it rests in suburban Georgia as a powerful reminder of division, unity, and the passage of time. Originally gifted to Senator Chuck Clay, grandson of General Lucius D. Clay, the architect of the Berlin Airlift, this section of the Wall……
As an enterprising teenager growing up in San Mateo Yucutindoo (population 2,500) in Oaxaca’s remote Sierra Sur region, Thalía Barrios García financed her first bakery by peddling goods she’d buy in bigger cities to locals. As a culinary school student, she almost got expelled for selling home-made tacos and fruit ices to classmates. Her grit and persistence paid off. In 2019, she used her savings to open a little patio restaurant, Levadura de Olla, naming it after the homemade ferments that……
Chef-owner Olga Cabrera Oropeza hails from the provincial town of Huajuapan de Leon in Mixteca, the rugged northwestern region shared by Oaxaca and the states of Puebla and Guerrero. She grew up with the sweet smell of pulque-leavened breads made by her mom, a renowned local baker, and helped her abuela run a rustic comedor (lunchtime restaurant) famous for pipianes (moles thickened with pumpkin seeds) and chileajos, the Mixtecan stews powered with fruity-hot slender chiles costeños. After moving to……
While “the old woman who lived in a shoe” might only exist in a nursery rhyme, there are a surprising number of very real, gigantic versions of footwear scattered around the globe. These mega-shoes range in function from a wedding venue to an ice cream shop. This particular one, however, keeps things literal. To this day, it’s the biggest shoe repair shop in town. It was built by cobbler Chester Deschwanden in front of his house in 1947. Despite……
Originally planned to be a palace for King Jinheung of the Silla dynasty of Korea, the construction that began in 553 BC changed its direction when a great yellow dragon allegedly appeared at the site. Awestruck and considering it to be a providential sign, the king ordered his people to turn the unfinished palace into a Buddhist temple. It was completed in 570 BC and named Hwangnyongsa. Over the next seven centuries, the temple would come to interact with……
It’s no accident Freddy Krueger is the most famous monster of the last 50 years. He craves the spotlight. Jason Voorhees, Michael Myers, Leatherface—those killers operate in the shadows. They hide their faces, dispatch their victims quickly, and don’t speak. But Freddy is an exhibitionist. Each kill in the Nightmare on Elm Street saga is an elaborate production of Freddy’s design. His kills are performances, right down to working out his new comedy material—which is really its own form……
LONDON (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of passengers faced flight cancellations at Europe’s busiest travel hub after a fire knocked out power to London’s Heathrow Airport, forcing it to close for the day. At least 1,350 flights to and from Heathrow were affected, including several from U.S. cities that were canceled, flight tracking service FlightRadar 24 said. Here’s the latest: ___ Lights are back on at Heathrow Terminal 4 Travelers say power is back on at one of the…
It was the Highland Society of Scotland’s idea to construct a memorial to Scottish Napoleonic War soldiers, specifically on Calton Hill overlooking Edinburgh. Thomas Bruce, Lord Elgin, who had controversially brought Parthenon sculptures to the British Museum, ensured that the memorial should look like the classical Parthenon in Athens. It was designed by Charles Robert Cockerell and William Henry Playfair, the former of whom had extensively studied in Greece and the latter of whom constructed many other Neoclassical buildings……
A meal at chef Celia Florian’s rustic-elegant spot, which opened in 1992 near the floridly Baroque church of Santo Domingo de Guzman, is both a sensual pleasure and an essential primer of Oaxacan flavors. Florian is a driving force behind Cocineras Tradicionales de Oaxaca, an association of women who gather to exchange recipes in far-flung communities. Part Zapotec, she is an inspired chef with a preservationist bent; her moles alone are reasons enough to fly to Oaxaca. Take her……
Quantum computers have the potential to solve complex problems that would be impossible for the most powerful classical supercomputer to crack. Just like a classical computer has separate, yet interconnected, components that must work together, such as a memory chip and a CPU on a motherboard, a quantum computer will need to communicate quantum information between multiple processors. Current architectures used to interconnect superconducting quantum processors are “point-to-point” in connectivity, meaning they require a series of transfers between network……
Well-run and profitable hotels are like a symphony where talented performers play their parts within the framework of the score. Their skilled cooperation creates the business foundation for the hotel to meet or exceed its business goals. Revenue management principles provide such a framework, with the revenue manager serving as the conductor. The Strategic Framework The post Profitable Forecasting: How to Boost Hotel Profitability with Revenue Management appeared first on Revfine.com….
DALLAS (AP) — Gage Goncalves scored Tampa Bay’s third goal in the fourth round of the shootout and the Lightning beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Thursday night. Brandon Hagel and Anthony Cirelli had a goal and an assist each for the Lightning, who have won three consecutive games. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 22 saves through overtime and two in the shootout. Oskar Back and Mason Marchment scored for the Stars, whose eight-game home winning streak was snapped. Casey DeSmith…
Although La Teca has been around for over three decades, it still feels like a secretive discovery. Take a taxi to a busy street in Oaxaca’s residential Reforma neighborhood far from mezcal-swigging tourists, then admire the quaint family vibe of La Teca’s front room hung with artworks by Oaxacan luminaries including the late artist-activist-legend, Francisco Toledo. As you settle down in the overgrown tropical patio worthy of a magical realist novel, chef-owner Deyanira Aquino appears—in her eighties, regal of……
Sure, many people think their job stinks, but only a few lucky workers are proud of that fact. They may be found at the Chalet Cheese Cooperative, a dairy factory located in Green County, Wisconsin. While Chalet Cheese makes a variety of dairy products, these days, it is best known as the last Limburger cheese plant in America. Although the origins of Limburger cheese date back to the 15th century in the Wallonia region of Belgium, America’s Limburger obsession……
