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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

 
The West Australian Irish Famine Memorial in...
The West Australian Irish Famine Memorial (also named An Gorta Mór), is a public sculpture that commemorates the suffering and tragic death of millions of Irish people during the Great Famine from 1845 to 1852. The sculpture was completed in 2017 and unveiled by the President of Ireland Michael D Higgins at a special ceremony in October 2017. This memorial was designed and constructed by Charles Smith and Joan Walsh-Smith, a husband and wife who built a reputation for...

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Inside a Decades-Long Quest to Measure Love
In the fall of 1937, Ed Keefer was a senior in the school of engineering at the University of Toledo in Ohio. Tall, slender, and bespectacled, Keefer was the president of the calculus club, the vice-president of the engineering club, and a member of the school’s exclusive all-male honor society. He also invented the Cupidoscope. The electrical device could not have been more perfectly designed to bring campus-wide fame to its creators, Keefer and his less sociable classmate John...

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15 Strategies to Boost Hotel Food and...
Managing hotel restaurants may be challenging. Ultimately, one might say maintaining a hotel as a whole is likely enough effort in and of itself, not even to mention trying to figure out how to ensure the hotel restaurant operates to its fullest potential. However, in the long run, it pays to consider ways to boost The post 15 Strategies to Boost Hotel Food and Beverage Revenue appeared first on Revfine.com.

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4 Truly Unexpected Ways to Express Your...
Valentine’s Day isn’t just about greeting cards, red roses and heart-shaped boxes of chocolates. These Atlas Obscura favorites reveal the many sides of the holiday—some more sour than sweet. (Plus an unusual gesture of love from a man named Valentine.) Where in the World Is Saint Valentine? by Jessica Leigh Hester If you’re a romantic or chocoholic, you might crush on Valentine’s Day, but if your tastes skew more toward the macabre—say, actual organs instead of heart-shaped cards—you might...

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In the World of Animal Courtship, These...
Each afternoon, as the sun begins to lower over the tropical rainforests of Central and South America, the male greater sac-winged bat wakes up and gets to work. Clinging upside-down to the side of a cave or a tree cavity, he folds his three-inch body in half like a hairpin, sucking up a few drops of urine before quickly transferring it into the eponymous pouches on his wings. Then, he bends forward again, this time pressing a gland on...

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Podcast: The San Juan Island Pig War
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit an island off the coast of Northwestern Washington where the killing of a British pig almost started a war between two of the world’s greatest military powers. One hundred years later, a local artist commemorated the Pig War with a one-woman show, a troupe of mannequins, and a taxidermied pig. Learn more about Steve Lyons’ play....

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Where is the Data? How Hotels are...
Data is the blood life – or oxygen – for businesses, but only if one knows how to make sense of it. The sheer volume and scale of data available to hoteliers today are immense, and operators are finding new ways of turning the overwhelming deluge of information from a curse into a blessing. The The post Where is the Data? How Hotels are Changing Targets for Data Collection appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Studying Australia's Feisty Northern Quolls Requires Beef...
Australia’s northern quoll is, by all accounts, an unpleasant animal. The carnivorous marsupial, Dasyurus hallucatus, lives in isolated pockets in the country’s north and, at first glance, might be mistaken for some kind of rat or other rodent—until you notice all those sharp teeth, similar to those of a cat. Like cats, northern quolls are highly skilled nocturnal hunters, nabbing mostly insects, but also the occasional small mammal, bird, or reptile. They have an outsized reputation for “being lively...

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Spaceburgers
Every August, the Grant County Fair returns to Moses Lake, Washington. With it comes the fair’s most well-known food: Spaceburgers. Two slices of white bread go in a special sandwich-making machine that seals inside a mixture of seasoned ground beef, sauce, and shredded lettuce. At a blistering 400°F degrees, the machine toasts the bread in a mere 30 to 40 seconds while also crimping shut the sandwich edges and cutting off the crusts, making flying saucer-shaped burgers.  Simple though...

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What Revenue Management Trends and Strategies will...
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are your predictions for the revenue management trends and strategies we can expect to see in 2023? Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Chaya Kowal – Director of Revenue Management, Potato Head Family Dermot Herlihy – Owner, Dynamic Hospitality Consulting Ricardo The post What Revenue Management Trends and Strategies will we see in 2023? appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Packages: Tips to Optimise the Use...
Hotel packages are helpful for hotels and their guests because they bundle together a hotel room with other products or services that may interest them. For hotels, this provides upselling potential, while for guests, it means an improved guest experience and, often, greater value for money. In this article, you can learn about how hotel The post Hotel Packages: Tips to Optimise the Use of Hotel Package Deals appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Moving Ahead Towards The Light: The Hospitality...
There’s no doubt that 2022 brought terrific developments for the hospitality industry. Most countries reopened their borders and did away with travel restrictions, and demand matched or even exceeded 2019 levels. However, it’s not smooth sailing all around. Our sector faced many ongoing challenges due to the pandemic, and some new issues cropped up, too. The post Moving Ahead Towards The Light: The Hospitality Industry’s New Trials and Possibilities appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How To Upsell Throughout the Traveler Journey...
Upsells are a simple, straightforward way to drive more revenue, increase engagement, and build customer loyalty. Implementing the right upsell strategy can improve the guest experience and your bottom line. Lodging businesses that leverage the power of upsells can increase guest satisfaction by allowing guests to customize their stay, build customer loyalty through personalized experiences, The post How To Upsell Throughout the Traveler Journey (+5 Best Practices) appeared first on Revfine.com.

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4 Key Metrics for Your Hotel’s Direct...
Data analytics is, of course, helpful to better understand your hotel’s direct channel performance, but what’s most useful is being able to compare your results to the market to identify potential growth drivers. The Benefits of Hotel Benchmarking Hotel benchmarking enables you not only to access competitive insights but to make better-informed decisions and take The post 4 Key Metrics for Your Hotel’s Direct Channel Success appeared first on Revfine.com.

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6 Ways Hoteliers Can Offer a Personalized...
Travelers looking to book their holidays spend countless hours researching locations, transportation methods, itineraries, and accommodation options. Especially when booking a hotel, they’re faced with a large variety of choices—and they will choose the one they resonate with best. You need to differentiate yourself from the crowd and ensure you are the top choice for The post 6 Ways Hoteliers Can Offer a Personalized Digital Guest Experience appeared first on Revfine.com.

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