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For the Ancient Maya, Cracked Mirrors Were...

May 20, 2024

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. Some people fear that breaking a mirror can lead to seven years of misfortune. The history of this superstition may go back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ascribed mysterious powers to reflected images. As a scholar of the Indigenous religions of the Americas, I know that the ancient Maya had a different take on cracked mirrors. During the first millennium, the...

Podcast: The Ludlow Massacre Site

May 20, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we learn about the Ludlow colony in southern Colorado—a place that was once a bustling tent city and haven for miners and their families. But it was also the site of one of the country’s most monumental and violent clashes of the labor movement. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Inner Cities

May 20, 2024

This themed crossword comes from Zhouqin (C.C.) Burnikel, who grew up in Xi’an, China, before moving to the United States in 2001. She’s the author of Sip & Solve Easy Mini Crosswords. You can solve the puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Note that the links in the clues will take you to Atlas Obscura pages that may contain the answer. Happy solving!

4 Steps for Improving Meetings & Events...

May 20, 2024

Revenue leaders across the globe devote a considerable amount of their efforts to driving room revenue performance. It’s an understandable decision, given that rooms are the obvious staple of any hotel operation and there are only so many hours in a day. 4 Steps for Improving Meetings & Events Revenue Performance With meetings and events The post 4 Steps for Improving Meetings & Events Revenue Performance appeared first on Revfine.com.

5 Reasons Why Implementing RMS in High...

May 19, 2024

Check-in lines, a full luggage store, and you running around, juggling hotel admin work, staff, customer service, marketing, and prices. Welcome to the high season. Amidst this chaos, implementing a new technology solution like a Revenue Management System (RMS) might be the last thing on your to-do list. However, here are five reasons why doing The post 5 Reasons Why Implementing RMS in High Season Makes Absolute Sense appeared first on Revfine.com.

Account Analytics: Optimize Corporate & Agency Performance...

May 18, 2024

Account Analytics is much more than most Sales Managers are currently equipped with, usually in an Excel sheet or PMS report: Room Nights, ADR, and Revenue per account. Understand how deeper Account Analytics across Corporate and Agency accounts can help your hotel’s commercial team analyze the entire segment of individual accounts and leverage the data The post Account Analytics: Optimize Corporate & Agency Performance with Data appeared first on Revfine.com.

These U.S. Cities Have More Parking Lots...

May 17, 2024

“The twin gods of Smooth Traffic and Ample Parking have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.” The quote is from urban designer Jeff Speck. It’s hard to think of a pithier one to describe the parking pandemic blighting America’s city centers—except perhaps the title of a Bloomberg article on the same topic: “Parking has eaten America’s cities”. That article cites a 2018 study of the space and money devoted...

Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language

May 17, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). In the early twentieth century, some prairie dog towns stretched for hundreds of miles. Cowboys and naturalists passing through described acres of sociable rodents, who would pop out of the ground and greet them with high-pitched chatter. Those visitors didn’t know it, but they were being described in turn. These squeaks and...

7 Stories of the World’s Rarest Animals

May 17, 2024

In honor of Endangered Species Day, held each year on the third Friday of May, we found some of the world’s most elusive creatures in the Atlas Obscura archive. Meet Puerto Rico’s wide-eyed frogs, Finland’s freshwater seals, and Indonesia’s singing dogs—and the scientists and citizens working to protect them. Puerto Rico’s Most Adorable Frogs Live in Caves and Fight Like ‘Gummy Bears’ by Hannah Tomasy Biologist Samantha Shablin is on a mission to learn more about the “cryptic” coquí...

Inside One Family's Mission to Revive an...

May 16, 2024

Ty Walker squats on the grassy banks of a 150-foot-long, 10-foot-wide earthen pond lifting a net filled with thrashing young rainbow trout from the churning spring water. He nudges a pair of curious Great Pyrenees away, then carefully drops a dozen fish into a large bucket of water and hoists it onto a scale for his wife, Shannon, to log the results in a notebook. “We’re calculating average weights to get a bead on how fast the fish are...

Smart Hotel Technology; 7 Technologies to Smart...

May 16, 2024

Smart Hotel Technology Smart hotel technology describes all of the new technologies that can be integrated to enhance the hospitality sector’s operation and guest experience. Some examples include AI, robotics, IoT, and general automation. These solutions offer both practical benefits and help meet the expectations of tech-savvy guests. Key Takeaways Smart Room Controls: Apps can The post Smart Hotel Technology; 7 Technologies to Smart Up Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

Meetings and Events Online Booking and Marketing...

May 15, 2024

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How can hotels optimize the online booking process for Meetings and Events? And how can they best market it? Our Marketing Expert Panel Peter Ricci – Clinical Associate Professor and Director, Florida Atlantic University Cory Falter – Partner and Visionary at The post Meetings and Events Online Booking and Marketing Optimization Tips appeared first on Revfine.com.

7 Tips to Attract More Corporate Travelers...

May 15, 2024

Corporate travelers are a growing demographic and a target audience that many within the hotel industry are placing an increased emphasis on trying to appeal to. After all, a corporate traveler may use extra hotel facilities, return to your hotel multiple times and recommend it to colleagues and business partners. In this article, you will The post 7 Tips to Attract More Corporate Travelers to Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

Central Deborah Gold Mine in Bendigo, Australia

May 7, 2024

This location provides direct access to the gold mining underworld of Bendigo, which was responsible for Australia’s Victorian gold rush. In addition to the well-maintained surface facilities, this location offers explorers the option to go deep below the earth’s surface and travel through the upper levels of the gold mining tunnels picking up the local and global history and lingo along the way. If you are clever (and have small hands) you can even touch veins of gold still...

Eden V Shipwreck in Lesina Marina, Italy

May 7, 2024

Eden V, also known by the name Etsuyo Maru, was a Japanese cargo ship built in 1968. On December 16, 1988, the ship was grounded on the coast near Lesina Marina, despite not having sent a mayday call. The shipwreck has been left to rot for several decades and reportedly contained toxic and radioactive material. In 2014, local authorities had large parts of the wreck dismantled. To this day, the bottom of the hull is still stuck in the...

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