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How To Leverage Data Across 4 Key...
There is no shortage of data in the hospitality industry. From travelers browsing your website to entering information on OTAs and post-stay surveys, hoteliers collect immense amounts of hotel data daily. For this data to be useful, it must be organized and filtered, so it’s decipherable and helps guide decision-making. Decisions Based on Business Intelligence The post How To Leverage Data Across 4 Key Hotel Departments appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Brier Hill Pizza
It’s before dawn on a Saturday at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Youngstown, and the smell of red peppers hangs heavy in the air. For decades, a group of volunteers have worked here to keep a beloved tradition alive: making Brier Hill pizzas. The Brier Hill neighborhood, on the Mahoning River bank in Youngstown, was so named because it was near the location of Ohio governor David Tod’s 19th-century estate, built on a hill that was covered...

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Krampus Is the Christmas Icon We Need—And...
It’s the first time I’m wearing the dog muzzle in public. I’d been fussing with it for days in the privacy of my dining room, along with other found items: gardening knee pads, black electrical tape, cowbells snatched up on clearance (because you can never have too much cowbell). Now, I’m wearing all that, along with an old weightlifting belt and yards of fake fur, stitched and glued into something that resembles the offspring of a Wookiee and a...

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The Town Where Santa's Sleigh Is a...
It was a typical Christmas Eve at a beach in Australia—80 degrees in the early evening and not a cloud in the sky. The year was 1997 and families were busy at grills cooking sausages, while suntanned kids played cricket on the beach and surfed the waves. Out of the blue, the sound of a bell tinkling interrupted the happy scene. The chiming started getting louder and louder and everyone began pointing up to a small red figure in...

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Break Siloes and Foster Synergies to Optimize...
Hotels looking to optimize profits must break the silo mentality. They must align their teams and synchronize their knowledge. In this article, you’ll learn how to break siloes and foster synergies to optimize hotel profits. Steps to Creating a Connected Commercial Organization The movement toward commercial revenue is a good start. Many hotels have brought The post Break Siloes and Foster Synergies to Optimize Hotel Profits appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How Photos Tell the Story of a...
In 2019, Laura Solis and her husband, Michael Fong, were doing some ancestry research, specifically into her father’s side of the family. Solis, an attorney, and Fong, who was then Senior Deputy Mayor of Seattle, were interested in her parents’ experiences as farm workers in the Granger area of Yakima Valley, Washington, in the 1970s. Both of her parents were raised in migrant farmworker families. Her father had mentioned that his brother had been photographed with a “really important...

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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Travel...
Artificial intelligence is improving all the time, making it more reliable and more attractive as a business solution. In particular, businesses in the travel industry are taking advantage of AI in order to perform a variety of administrative and customer service tasks. Here, you will learn the uses and benefits of artificial intelligence, and explain The post How Artificial Intelligence is Changing the Travel Industry appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How the Internet of Things (IoT) can...
One of the most important emerging trends for those in the hospitality industry is the Internet of Things, or IoT for short. It is, therefore, important for hotel owners, managers and other business leaders to make the most of it, yet many people still struggle to fully understand what it is, and how it can The post How the Internet of Things (IoT) can Benefit the Hospitality Industry appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Saskatoon Berry Perogies
Dessert perogies may not be familiar to those without Northern European connections, but they are as big a part of a traditional meal as the more savory varieties. And on the Canadian Prairies, those desserts take the form of saskatoon berry perogies. Rob Engel, the owner of Baba’s Homestyle Perogies,  notes that a traditional Ukrainian dessert perogy would have a prune filling. When Ukrainians first started immigrating to the Canadian Prairies more than 100 years ago, however, prune plums...

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Podcast: Atlas Obscura Presents How To!
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. This episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast welcomes How To! host Amanda Ripley as she goes in search of the answer to the question “How to set up a roadside attraction that will bring visitors to your town” with expert Erika Nelson, the founder of the World’s Largest Collection of the World’s Smallest Things. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange...

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Iowa’s Ancient Apex Predator Was the ‘T....
So, you’re a lungfish. You’re minding your own business, searching for snails and other tasty morsels in the warm, murky water of a tropical lowland lake that will, in some 340 million years, be in eastern Iowa. Your long but plump body—an aquatic sausage with teensy fins—swims through the shallows, past what looks like a large rock. It is not a rock. It’s a six-foot-long giant in this ancient ecosystem: a muscular menace that might be mistaken for an...

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Kaspar the Savoy Cat in London, England
Black cats are world-renowned for being the harbingers of bad luck and misfortune. However, in some cultures, they are seen as talismans or good luck charms. The latter may be said of the darkly colored feline who resides in London’s premier purpose-built luxury hotel, The Savoy. Kaspar, as they are affectionately called, can be seen perched on a table to the left of the reception desk until their unique services are required. Kaspar has the remarkable and one-of-a-kind task...

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Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine in...
Built in 1852 by Samuel Stonestreet for his son, Dr. Edward Elisha Stonestreet after he had graduated from medical school at the University of Maryland, this one-room doctor’s office has been moved on two separate occasions, and now lives on as a museum on the grounds of Beall-Dawson House. The office was initially located in the front yard of the Stonestreet Family House at the intersection of East Montgomery Ave. and Monroe St. Dr. Stonestreet practiced medicine there for...

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Remains of the Old London Bridge in...
Little remains of the medieval London bridge, save for a few artifacts and the pedestrian entrance that forms part of St. Magnus the Marytr church in London. Once the key crossing point of the Thames River, the bridge was built in 1209 to replace the original Roman crossing built in 50. It remained in use for over 600 years, before being demolished in the 19th century to provide access for river traffic. The most famous and longstanding of London’s Thames river bridges, the...

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Spaç Prison in Kodër Spaç, Albania
Spaç prison was operational from 1968 to 1991. A place that housed mostly political prisoners, it stands as a grim reminder of the brutal treatment prisoners endured while incarcerated under the dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. Prisoners were subjected to forced labor in nearby mines and were held in small cells that still bear their memories—names, words, and drawings are etched into the concrete walls of the cells.  The prison is so notorious that it has become a metaphor. Sometimes...

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