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Best Practices & Examples for Hotel Website...

August 18, 2023

From showcasing the available room types to sumptuous dining options, a well-designed and structured website serves as a virtual doorway to the experiences awaiting your guests. This article delves into best practices for crafting a successful hotel website – a channel that tells your brand story, informs potential guests about what to expect, and converts The post Best Practices & Examples for Hotel Website Design appeared first on Revfine.com.

What Would You Tell Hotel Personnel Choosing...

August 15, 2023

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What would you tell hotel personnel choosing a tech stack? Our Marketing Expert Panel Peter Ricci – Clinical Professor and Director of Hospitality & Tourism Management Program at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) Max Starkov – Adjunct Professor Hospitality Technology, New York The post What Would You Tell Hotel Personnel Choosing A Tech Stack? appeared first on Revfine.com.

'Listen' in Umea, Sweden

August 14, 2023

Inaugurated in 2019, the eye-catching artwork ‘Listen’ in the center of Umeå depicts a roaring muscular feline sitting atop an almost cage-like steel structure 10 feet (3 meters) above the ground. The animal sculpture, which has an open gap filled with golden bronze, is made of polyester composite with Mazda red lacquer on the surface. This permanent public installation symbolizes the Municipality of Umeå’s official stance against sexual harassment. It’s also the first monument in Sweden entirely dedicated to the social...

The Truth Behind Poland's 'Anti-Vampire' Graves

August 14, 2023

In modern vampire lore, the process for becoming undead typically involves a darkly romantic setting, a fang-y bite, and a long, dramatic drink from the neck. But that’s the result of the last hundred years or so of vampire stories. In post-medieval Poland, undead evil was far more banal and less elegant; it was believed to possess the souls of those who had the misfortune to die early in epidemics, by suicide, or simply before being baptized. So when...

Pritchard's Station in Nevada

August 14, 2023

Nevada and the rest of the West were generally crisscrossed by stagecoach lines during the latter 19th century and even into the early 20th. It was a dusty, difficult, time-consuming, and an uncomfortable way to travel—but if there was no railroad, there were few alternatives. Many of these old lines were ephemeral, with little trace left today. Other routes are now followed by modern highways. In a surprising number of cases, however, the line persisted for a decade or...

Gyeongui Line Book Street in Seoul, South...

August 14, 2023

Chaekgeori is a unique genre of still-life painting that flourished during the Joseon dynasty of Korea, especially under the reign of Emperor Jeongjo (1776-1800). Typically, it depicts bookshelves full of “books and things” (chaekgeori), a pleasant eye candy to bibliophiles of all ages. It was also a thematic inspiration behind the Gyeongui Line Book Street project in the Mapo district, intended to be a multipurpose cultural hub utilizing books to enrich people’s lives. Another inspiration was the Hongdae neighborhood...

Antonio Pasqualino International Puppet Museum of Palermo...

August 14, 2023

The Association for the Conservation of Popular Traditions, founded by Antonio Pasqualino in 1995 who was a surgeon and anthropologist, established the International Puppet Museum in 1975. Due to the changing economic and social landscape in Italy in the 1960s, many puppeteers abandoned their careers for something more lucrative. The association opened the museum with the goal of rejuvenating the puppetry scene in Sicily. The museum houses a wide range of puppets, including the largest and most complete collection of...

Addressing the Colonial Legacy of the World's...

August 14, 2023

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils, gemstones and preserved animals. Herbaria – collections of pressed, dried plant specimens—are a less-known but important type of natural history collection. There are some 400 million botanical specimens stored across over 3,500 herbaria around the world, but most are not widely publicized and rarely host public exhibits. I...

Podcast: Snake Island

August 14, 2023

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a tiny island off the coast of Brazil is known for being a dangerous place … purely because its primary inhabitants are, well, snakes. We speak to a researcher who’s seen it up close and says it’s time for this place to shed its daunting reputation. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous,...

Puzzle Monday: Aw, Hell! Crossword

August 14, 2023

This Atlas Obscura–themed crossword comes from independent crossword constructor Brendan Emmett Quigley. He has been a professional puzzlemaker since 1996, and his pieces have appeared in dozens of publications. He’s also a member of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra. 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 contain the answer. Happy solving!

Kiyotsu Gorge 'Tunnel of Light' in Tokamachi,...

August 11, 2023

The Kiyotsu Gorge has been appreciated as a site of natural beauty for many decades, but its popularity is only a recent development, thanks to an art installation that turned its panorama into a fantastical vista into another world. The pedestrian tunnel was constructed in 1996 to respond to the demand of locals and tourists who wished to see the Gorge better, as the hiking route had been closed off due to a lethal rockfall accident in 1988. The tunnel...

Crystal Mine in Verdi, California

August 11, 2023

Quartz, silicon dioxide (SiO2) is one of the most common minerals in the Earth’s crust, and occurrences of massive quartz (so-called “bull quartz,” in miners’ jargon) are common. They are distinctive, the white quartz typically standing out prominently from the background of ordinary rock, and bull quartz also sometimes hosts valuable mineral deposits. The gold in the hard-rock mines of the Mother Lode on the west slope of the Sierra Nevada, for example, typically occurs in quartz. So, when...

Butrint National Park in Butrint, Albania

August 11, 2023

Butrint, located on the southern coast of Albania, is an ancient city that boasts a rich history and a unique blend of influences from various civilizations throughout the Mediterranean area. The site was first settled by the Greeks in the 7th century BCE and then became part of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BCE. Over the centuries, Butrint was also influenced by the Byzantines, Venetians, and Ottomans. This mix of civilizations and diverse types of architecture makes...

What Do King Charles III, the Pope,...

August 11, 2023

Old McDonald had a farm. The company managed by his descendants is now the 14th-largest private landowner in the world. Hold your ee-i-ee-i-o’s: This is not the farmer of nursery rhyme fame. That apocryphal MacDonald probably was inserted into a traditional folk song in early 20th-century America. These McDonalds (without the interstitial “a”) have been farming in Australia since 1827, when the first cattle were shipped to Tasmania. A Cattle Empire In 1947, Jim McDonald purchased Brightlands Station, a...

Andark Lake in Swanwick, England

August 11, 2023

Andark was originally formed in 1976 as a commercial diving business in Southampton, England. Andark divers would work on everything from surveying ship hulls to underwater construction. In 1980, the company diversified and started a scuba diver training program. In 2011, the business expanded yet again. On the high ground behind Andark, a small yet deep lake was constructed. This bowl-shaped lake, known as Andark Lake, became one of Europe’s first purpose-built scuba diving lakes. Today, Andark Lake is still...

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