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Which Matters Most for Winning Guests –...
Regardless of who you are, competition in the hospitality industry is increasingly fierce, and winning new customers is a major challenge even for experienced hoteliers. So, what makes the most significant difference in getting guests to stay at your hotel versus the one down the street? Is it price? Is it the chance to benefit The post Which Matters Most for Winning Guests – Price or Loyalty? appeared first on Revfine.com.

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4 Steps to Going from Reactive to...
Quick question: are your hotel operations reactive or preventive? If the answer is reactive, you are losing time and money. And if you say preventive, our great tips will help you be even more efficient. In both cases, keep reading. Introducing technology may feel cold and unwelcoming, but remember that hotel tech is not about The post 4 Steps to Going from Reactive to Proactive Hotel Operations; Save Time & Money appeared first on Revfine.com.

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3 Steps to Reaching and Converting Your...
A high occupancy rate is every hotelier’s dream. And to reach that high occupancy rate, hotels are heavily reliant on a good strategy. In the past, you may have devised a seemingly perfect marketing strategy to attract as many bookings as possible. However, you may have also been disappointed that you weren’t getting the desired The post 3 Steps to Reaching and Converting Your Hotel’s Target Audience appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How to use Artificial Intelligence in the...
As computer technology has advanced, artificial intelligence has become more reliable, enhancing its standing within the business world. Indeed, hospitality companies are increasingly using AI to carry out customer service tasks, which are especially important within hotels and resorts. In this article, you get a closer look in which way artificial intelligence is revolutionising the The post How to use Artificial Intelligence in the Hospitality Industry appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Restaurant Management: Tips to Maximise Revenue...
Hotel restaurant management presents some unique challenges. As well as providing food, your hotel’s restaurant is an intrinsic part of a guest’s experience. An excellent restaurant can help make staying at your hotel memorable. If your hotel restaurant is open to the general public, it can also be an important source of additional revenue. In The post Hotel Restaurant Management: Tips to Maximise Revenue for Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Johnny Marzetti
Unless you’ve grown up in Columbus, Ohio, you’ve probably never heard of Johnny Marzetti. This isn’t a person, by the way. It’s a casserole.  The easy-to-love meal is the stuff childhood dreams are made of: macaroni, ground beef, red sauce and cheese, baked together and dished out in thick slices like a lasagna. “My first sign that someone is not from Columbus,” says Jennifer Williams, owner of Weiland’s Market, “is they go, ‘What’s Johnny Marzetti?’”  The most common...

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Myrtleford Old School Museum in Myrtleford, Australia
The Myrtleford Old School Museum is a small museum housed in the old Myrtleford State School building which operated between 1870 to 1938. The museum provides an interesting insight into the history of this small town in northeastern Victoria, Australia. It’s an area steeped in history, with tobacco farming being a key part of the early industrial development of the local area in the 1920s. The tobacco industry was driven mostly by the large number of Italian migrants who...

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The Tenement House in Glasgow, Scotland
Tenements are probably the most uniquely-Glasgow type of housing in Scotland’s largest city. These large apartment buildings are distinguishable by their shared entrance and (formerly) communal areas such as gardens, toilets, and washrooms, as well as by normally being built in rows of near-identical constructions. This is the case along Buccleuch Street, where the last building of its row houses a museum known appropriately as the Tenement House. Occupying the first and second levels of its tenement building, the...

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MacTaggart Leisure Centre in Bowmore, Scotland
The isle of Islay in the Scottish Hebrides is famed for its peated Scotch whisky and the Bowmore Distillery, located on the shore of Loch Indall, is the oldest active distillery on the island. On its journey from grain to glass, whisky undergoes several processes including fermentation, distillation, and aging before being bottled and sold. The byproduct of several of these steps is waste heat, which Bowmore puts to some creative uses. After being captured by a heat recovery...

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Grave of Philip K. Dick in Fort...
The grave Philip K. Dick, the science-fiction author behind works including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, can be found in Riverside Cemetery in Fort Morgan, Colorado. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928, along with his fraternal twin sister Jane Charlotte Dick. Both were premature, and Jane died when they were just a few weeks old. She was buried in Colorado, where their grandparents lived. When she was buried, a space was left on the headstone for her brother. That...

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Pastor Sir Douglas & Lady Gladys Nicholls...
Situated in Parliament Gardens in central Melbourne, this memorial commemorates the remarkable lives of Douglas and Gladys Nicholls, two leading Aboriginal Australian rights activists from the Cummeragunja Mission in New South Wales. The monument is situated in Parliament Gardens in central Melbourne and is the first in the city to depict Aboriginal Australian leaders. Australian artist Louis Laume created the sculptures, which were unveiled to the public on December 9, 2007.  Born in 1906, Douglas Nicholls became a prominent...

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The Mystery Beneath the 'Honeycomb' Patterns of...
From the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah to the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia, salt deserts around the world have become popular tourist destinations—vast, seemingly featureless, impossibly photogenic natural wonders. Although not all salt deserts are created the same, they appear to share a strange feature: what can be described as honeycomb-like patterns composed of low ridges emerging from the salty crust. The mechanism behind these mysterious polygons has had scientists scratching their heads for some time, with several...

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Dog and Pot Sculpture in London, England
Commuters and visitors entering or exiting London’s Southwark Tube Station might catch a glimpse of this rather unusual piece of public art. Adding to their justifiable confusion is that this metallic dog with its head in a bowl has a connection to one of Victorian England’s greatest writers. Carefully crossing the road for further inspection, one will find a plaque on the ground bearing the words of Charles Dickens: “My usual way home was over Blackfriars Bridge, and down...

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Inside the World of 'Art Dropping'
Imagine while on your morning coffee run, you find a package on a bench wrapped in brown paper, with a note saying there’s art inside. Opening the package reveals an original piece of art, a small, acrylic painting with broad brushstrokes resembling the ocean, or maybe it’s a mountain. While it may be surprising, it’s sure to make your day. This is the goal of Toronto contemporary abstract artist Courtney Senior and her International Art and Found Day, the...

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