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Don’t Settle for Hotel Upselling “Light”

March 22, 2022

Today’s revenue managers are not stupid. They all know that occupancy is terrible, and while they can try to prop up the rate, it will be hard to reach 2019 revenue levels from reservation acquisitions alone. Their plan is to derive more revenue from their acquired guests now. So, things like room upgrade platforms, once The post Don’t Settle for Hotel Upselling “Light” appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Unsung Women of the Betty Crocker...

March 21, 2022

It started with a pincushion and a puzzle. In 1921, Washburn Crosby, the makers of Gold Medal flour, held a national contest. If customers completed a jigsaw puzzle and sent it in, they would be mailed a prize: a pincushion shaped like a flour sack. The Minnesota-based company was soon deluged in completed puzzles, along with something they didn’t expect: hundreds of letters from home cooks, asking for kitchen advice. The company took on the challenge gamely, responding to...

The Ecologist Who Made Biodiversity Count

March 21, 2022

In the early 1990s, in a small back room of London’s Zoological Society, change was afoot. An ecologist named Georgina Mace had invited a group of her colleagues, from prolific and influential conservation scientists to young researchers just getting started in the field, to collaborate on a project. That was Mace’s style; she valued collaboration across disciplines and academic hierarchies, and believed in mentoring the next generation of researchers by finding them room at the table beside giants of...

Seminário de Santa Teresinha in Raposeira, Portugal

March 21, 2022

Established in 1928 and burnt down in 2020, this theological college was once a highlight of a small village outside of Porto, Felgueiras. Belonging to the Congregation of the Mission, Seminário de Santa Teresinha was used to train Vincentian priests from 1928 to 1967. From 1967, upon the cessation of its function as a college, the building was used as a retirement home, a logical transformation considering the number of rooms located along large corridors. In 1984, the retirement...

'Cash for Your Warhol' in Cambridge, Massachusetts

March 21, 2022

A plaque advertising a 24-hour number for cash and exchange for your Warhol. Also features another brass plaque with a funny message that was left. The number does work, and you can leave a message. The plaque is part of a project created by Geoff Hargadon, who has been pretending to buy Warhols since 2009.

Adlerbogen (Eagle Arch) in Dannenfels, Germany

March 21, 2022

The Adlerbogen (Eagle Arch) is a triumphal arch located on the eastern side of the Donnersberg. The steel structure was built in 1880, meant to honor Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Shortly after the end of World War II, the Adlerbogen was destroyed—the eagle was shot off the top, the statue of Bismarck beheaded, and the statue of Moltke stolen. But in 2016, the arch was restored to its original design. The Adlerbogen is located on...

In Peru, an Ancient Site May Revive...

March 21, 2022

This story was originally published on SAPIENS and appears here under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Just an hour’s drive from the center of Lima, Peru, is a palatial architectural complex built of rammed earth and stone. It features labyrinthine passageways, warehouses that once stored foods, and furnished rooms that an Inca emperor—the region’s 15th-century ruler—may have visited. This site, now called the Monumental Archaeological Zone Huaycán de Pariachi (ZAMHP), has been held by many peoples. Between 900 and...

Castillo Pittamiglio in Montevideo, Uruguay

March 21, 2022

This unusual building in the Punta Carretas neighborhood of Montevideo was the residence of the architect Humberto Pittamiglio. Its most striking feature is the entrance facing Rambla Mahatma Gandhi, from which a replica of the iconic Greek sculpture the Winged Victory of Samothrace emerges from a round brick tower, crowned by a coat of arms. Pittamiglio was an Uruguayan architect and engineer. He built this house in 1910-1911. The history of the castle is surrounded by stories—some claim that it once housed the Holy Grail....

Hwajinpo Summer Houses in Goseong, South Korea

March 21, 2022

In Goseong, a seaside town only seven miles south of the 38th parallel that divides the Korean peninsula, stand three houses, where the triumvirate of postwar Korea—Kim Il-sung, Syngman Rhee, and Lee Ki-poong—once vacationed in the summer. In a still-unified but Japanese-occupied Korea, Goseong was a resort town for missionaries. In 1938, one missionary named Sherwood Hall commissioned a house on a bluff overlooking the shores of Hwajinpo Beach to a German architect who had fled Hitler’s reign. The...

Amelia Earhart Plaque in Honolulu, Hawaii

March 21, 2022

At the Diamond Head Lookout, a plaque celebrating Amelia Earhart’s solo flight from Hawai’i to California in January of 1935. The 2,408-mile flight took around 19 hours to complete, and marked the first time a pilot had successfully flown solo from Hawai’i to the U.S. mainland.

Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Bethlehem) in Bethlehem,...

March 21, 2022

This small monument, with several graves, markers, and a flagpole was designed to commemorate American Revolution soldiers who died in a makeshift hospital in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Many were buried on the nearby hillside. There are supposedly more than 500 soldiers buried nearby in unmarked graves in an area that was once outside the town but is now a residential neighborhood. One soldier was reburied in the tomb around 1931 during the monument’s construction. Several more people were reburied here...

Castle Semple Collegiate Church in Lochwinnoch, Scotland

March 21, 2022

The Gothic-style Castle Semple Collegiate Church was built in 1504 by Lord Sempill to serve his nearby castle. While the building was likely a remodeling of an unremarkable previously existing building, its renovated iteration would become home to a renowned learning center and an intricate tomb for one powerful patriarch. As a collegiate church, it was built to house a college of clergy, which at Castle Semple included a provost, six chaplains, two choir boys, and a sacristan. Aside...

Podcast: Edna Lawrence Nature Lab with Brian...

March 21, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, AirBnB founder and CEO Brian Chesky discusses how design experiences, like those found at the Edna Lawrence Nature Lab, shape his work.. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their...

Hang Ah Tea Room in San Francisco,...

March 18, 2022

Tucked away in a narrow alleyway, this San Francisco institution has been dishing up bamboo steamers of dim sum for more than a century. First opened in 1920, it bears the distinction of being the oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States. Although the prices have inched up ever so slightly—back in the 1930s, a basket of ha gow went for a mere $0.30—the menu of Cantonese stalwarts has remained largely the same for decades. Customers today can...

The Educator Stockpiling—and Sharing—Turkey's Heritage Seeds

March 18, 2022

Nardane Kuşçu tramps through the green fields at Narköy, her organic farm and eco-property, leading the way to a small, climate-controlled room behind a greenhouse. Inside, sliding plastic containers are meticulously labeled: pazı, lahana, pembe köy domates, karpuz. This isn’t a normal storage space. Each small container holds a selection of Turkish heritage seeds, carefully selected and stored by Kuşçu herself. At Narköy, in the Western Black Sea region, she has more than 1,200 varieties of them—one of the...

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