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Al Jazirah Al Hamra Heritage Village in...

May 14, 2025

Al Jazira Al Hamra was initially established as a fishing and pearl diving town in the 1830s. At the time, it housed approximately 200 people who mainly worked in pearl diving. The town was ruled by the Al Zaab tribe and kept about 25 fishing boats on the tidal island. By the turn of the 20th century, business was booming and Al Jazira Al Hamra was home to more than 2000 inhabitants. After oil was discovered in the United Arab Emirates,...

Complejo Cultural Fábrica Imbabura in Atuntaqui, Ecuador

May 14, 2025

In 1910, a pair of brothers from Gerona, Spain arrived in Ecuador with a dream of creating a textile empire. They got their start in Ambato, but expanded their business to Atuntaqui in 1924. With the help of hardworking locals, their business grew. The people of the Atuntaqui region, and specifically the Otavalo Valley, were skilled in textiles before the arrival of the Spanish. In pre-Columbian times, the area was known for fine spun and woven works. The precolonial...

Guptill's Arena in Cohoes, New York

May 14, 2025

At 50,000 square feet, Guptill’s Arena is the the largest indoor roller-skating rink in the world. Construction of the massive space began in 1946 and was completed in 1951, opening on Valentine’s Day. All together, the rink has 400,000 oak boards that have been fixed into place with a total of nine tons of nails. Today, crowds still line up to skate the original wood floors. Overall, the venue appears almost exactly as it did in the 1950s. The site’s original...

Airbnb Fees and Their Impact on Your...

May 14, 2025

Airbnb fees have gone from a novelty to one of the most important discussions within the hospitality industry. Airbnb has proven itself to be a notable competitor to the standard hotel model. The associated fees for using the Airbnb service, for both hosts and guests alike, aren’t always so readily apparent. Understanding how Airbnb’s revenue The post Airbnb Fees and Their Impact on Your Hotel’s Competitive Strategy appeared first on Revfine.com.

Podcast: Finding ‘The Great Gatsby’ in Louisville

May 14, 2025

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of the Atlas Obscura Podcast, we take listeners on a tour of the unlikely city at the heart of The Great Gatsby. The novel may be known as a classic New York City story, but the events that set off the action actually take place somewhere else—in Louisville, Kentucky. It’s where Daisy and Gatsby first meet, and where Daisy marries Gatsby’s rival, Tom...

Dear Atlas: What International Food Can I...

May 13, 2025

Dear Atlas is Atlas Obscura’s travel advice column, answering the questions you won’t find in traditional guidebooks. Have a question for our experts? Submit it here. * * * Dear Atlas, Hyper-specific regional foods are my favorite gift to buy friends back home while I’m traveling, but I’m a bit paranoid of U.S. customs. What are some unique (preferably non-perishable!) foods that I can legally bring into the country? The dogs wandering between people at international airport arrivals are...

Should Hotels Apply Strict or Flexible Cancellation...

May 13, 2025

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: What are the benefits and risks of applying strict cancellation policies versus flexible? How does the competition influence a hotel’s cancellation policy? (Question proposed by Niko Krauseneck) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Niko Krauseneck – Founder, RevenueRebel Massimiliano Terzulli – Revenue The post Should Hotels Apply Strict or Flexible Cancellation Policies? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Training AI Agents to Improve Personalisation and...

May 13, 2025

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How can AI agents be trained to anticipate hotel guest needs? How might this impact the personalisation of sales interactions and overall conversion rates? (Question proposed by Michael J. Goldrich) Our Marketing Expert Panel Michael J. Goldrich – Founder & The post Training AI Agents to Improve Personalisation and Boost Conversion appeared first on Revfine.com.

How One Biologist Drew a Hyper-Accurate, Ranger-Approved...

May 12, 2025

In the gift shop of South Carolina’s Congaree National Park, visitors can choose between two maps to help them explore the largest expanse of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest left in North America. In the first one, printed by the National Park Service, most of the detail is concentrated in the top left corner near the park’s headquarters: loops of hiking trails plotted in dotted lines, major waterways rendered in icy blue. The rest of the map—the park’s 22,000-acre backcountry—is...

Wolves Have a Bad Reputation. One Yellowstone...

May 12, 2025

The wolves trot out of the morning fog and settle around a bison herd that had overnighted in the Lamar Valley of Yellowstone National Park. There are a couple hundred bison and only four wolves, but the herd immediately becomes agitated—they begin to move around, and the wolves follow. A human family of four, we watch them from a hill across the valley, sometimes through the scopes that our guide, Audra Conklin Taylor, has brought along, sometimes just squinting...

We Visited the Dino Bodega in (Jurassic)...

May 9, 2025

A long time ago, when dinosaurs roamed New York—long before smartphones, Ubers, and LinkNYC streetside screens were daily facts of life—a labyrinth of caverns below the surface of the city was filled with newsstands peddling physical newspapers filled with all the Jurassic news that was fit to print. Most of these newsstands have shuttered, and these days schoolkids don’t know one when they see one, according to MTA worker Marjorie Nassirou. “It’s prehistoric,” she said. Boomers, on the other...

Mitaki-dera in Hiroshima, Japan

May 9, 2025

This temple in Hiroshima is accessible by public transportation thanks to one bus that passes every hour. It is at the end of a small residential road. At the end of a row of houses is a path that leads to a large hidden pagoda, hundreds of small Buddha statues, trees everywhere, and even a small waterfall. If you’re feeling stouthearted, this picturesque scene is the starting pont for a 30 minute hike through the middle of a bamboo forest....

Sandiaoling Bike Tunnel in New Taipei...

May 9, 2025

The Sandiaoling Bike Tunnel is a journey through history, nature, and innovative design. You don’t need to be a cycling enthusiast or history buff to enjoy this immersive experience—it’s a perfect escape for anyone seeking a unique adventure close to Taipei. The Sandiaoling Tunnel was originally built in 1922 as part of the Yilan Railway Line, during the Japanese colonial era. At the time of its construction, the tunnel was the first in Taiwan to utilize electric rock drilling...

League Park in Cleveland, Ohio

May 9, 2025

League Park is the site of many events in baseball history. There was Babe Ruth’s 500th career home run, the final game of Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, Cleveland‘s first game as an American League team, Adie Joss’ 1908 perfect game, and the first “All-Star” game, just to name a few. League Park opened as a wooden structure in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood in 1891. The location was chosen due to its proximity to a streetcar line owned by Cleveland...

Terry's of Charlevoix in Charlevoix, Michigan

May 9, 2025

Not far from Earl Young’s beloved stone “mushroom houses” is Terry’s of Charlevoix, often referred to simply as Terry’s Place. The line to dine begins forming at 4 p.m. It ultimately stretches down Antrim Street away from the Charlevoix Marina and East Park until 5 o’clock, when they begin letting customers in. As the regional and national press from the 1980s that still adorns the walls attests (why hello there Molly Abraham), this no-reservations destination is the place to...

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