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How can Hotels Balance their use of...

December 2, 2021

Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel What advice can you offer hotels on finding the right balance between OTAs Vs Direct Booking channels? Are there any occasions where hotels should not use OTAs? Our Marketing Expert Panel Adele Gutman – Culture and Guest Experience Expert, Hospitality The post How can Hotels Balance their use of OTAs Vs Direct Booking Channels? appeared first on Revfine.com.

Town Bridge & Lock-up in Bradford-on-Avon, England

December 2, 2021

This stone bridge dates from the 13th to early 14th century. During that time, a chapel also stood on the bridge, and later a single room was added that was used for a variety of purposes, including a local jail. The bridge is located at the center of Bradford on Avon, the focus of all the roads. An iconic symbol of the town, the bridge was chosen as the figure to represent several local organizations. A bridge was mentioned...

Dofuchi Strait in Tonosho, Japan

December 2, 2021

Japan loves Guinness World Records. From the number of vending machines to the world’s smallest escalator, it holds numerous world records and always pushes for more to boast about. Dofuchi Strait in southern Japan was one of its many submissions to Guinness, and in 1996 it was designated as the narrowest strait in the world. Previously unnamed, it was given the name Dofuchi (土渕) at the time of its submission after its hometown of Tonoshō (土庄), and the district...

The Wright Tavern in Concord, Massachusetts

December 2, 2021

Constructed in 1747, no other historic building in Concord was more important to the American Revolution than the Wright Tavern. The two separate events that took place here in 1774 and 1775 played massive roles in the war. On Oct. 11, 1774, on the eve of the revolution, key committees of the provincial congress met at Wright Tavern. The full assembly of Congress also met next door at the town meeting house. On April 19, 1775, one of the first...

Mar's Wark in Stirling, Scotland

December 2, 2021

Mar’s Wark was built by John Erskine, the Regent of Scotland and Earl of Mar, who intended the building to be his principal family residence in Stirling. Erskine was the governor of Edinburgh Castle during the regency of Mary of Guise, from 1554 to 1560. However, he turned against her daughter, Mary Queen of Scots, after the murder of her second husband Lord Darnley in 1567. Consequently, he lost his governorship in Edinburgh, but became the hereditary keeper of Stirling Castle, a position...

Podcast: Centers for Disease Control Museum

December 2, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the museum inside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, that documents how public health officials have slowed the spread of disease through history. 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...

Revenue Management Guide: Calculating Costs & Quality...

December 2, 2021

As a hotelier, you know many factors go into your room rates. Three of those factors are your costs, current demand, and your hotel’s online visibility. Revenue management is the science of assessing these and other factors and raising your profitability year after year. This article offers a guide to analyzing your costs and improving The post Revenue Management Guide: Calculating Costs & Quality Analysis appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Overlooked History of Berlin's Black Community

December 1, 2021

There are more than seventy-five thousand Stolpersteine, or “stumbling stones,” laid into footpaths across Europe. Collectively, it is the largest decentralized memorial of its kind anywhere in the world. Each four-by-four brass stone is placed at the last known residential or working address of a human being who was murdered by the Nazis. Though most of the stones commemorate people who were Jewish, Roma and Sinti, homosexual, or disabled, there were many other groups persecuted by the Nazis–including Black...

Memorial da Resistência de São Paulo (Memorial...

December 1, 2021

Within a stone’s throw of Luz station stands a building with an ornate facade and a dark history. Once the headquarters of the State Department of Political and Social Order of São Paulo, today this building is a memorial and museum dedicated to the victims of Brazil‘s fascist military dictatorship. In 1964, a coup d’etat against the government of President Joao Goulart was launched by right-wing extremists in the Brazilian military. The coup had been set in motion with the...

Croft Moraig Stone Circle in Aberfeldy, Scotland

December 1, 2021

Excavated in 1965, the Neolithic Croft Moraig (or Croftmoraig) stone circle was constructed over several millennia. Construction began in the second or third millennium B.C., when 14 timber posts were set up in a horseshoe pattern that measured 26 feet by 23 feet. During the later second phase of construction, eight standing stones arranged in a large horseshoe pattern, measuring 26 feet by 20 feet and surrounded by a 55-foot stone bank, replaced the timber posts. In the third and final...

'Famntaget' ('The Embrace') in Trelleborg Ö, Sweden

December 1, 2021

In the shadow of Sweden’s southernmost point in the small fishing village of Smygehuk stands Famntaget, an often overlooked sculpture with an interesting connection to Hollywood. This life-size bronze statue of a naked woman was modeled after Birgit Holmquist, who is the maternal grandmother of American actress Uma Thurman. The daughter of an industrialist, Holmquist was born in 1911 and raised in Trelleborg in southern Sweden. In her late teens, she worked as a model and posed for the renowned local...

Summer Falls in Coulee City, Washington

December 1, 2021

Why would anyone expend the resources simply to pump water up and let it run off a cliff, particularly lots of water? That seems at best quixotic and at worst gratuitously wasteful. Well, it was unquestionably wasteful, but the costs were considered minor at the time. The falling water represents the distributary stream, the so-called Main Canal, for Banks Lake, the reservoir for the Columbia Basin (Irrigation) Project. Banks Lake is filled by water pumped up from the Columbia...

Museum of Space Exploration in Pereiaslav, Ukraine

December 1, 2021

When traveling through the outskirts of Kiev, one expects to find small villages, farms and the rolling countryside of Ukraine. What most do not expect is to find an old church that is now a museum filled to the brim with Soviet space items. Nevertheless, this is exactly what you will find here. The museum was opened in 1979 by Mikhail Sikorsk in collaboration with the academy of sciences. The museum started as a passion project of sorts, with...

DenkStätte Weiße Rose (White Rose Memorial Exhibition)...

December 1, 2021

A small and poignant memorial exhibition inside the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich showcases the lives of the founders of the Weiße Rose (in English, “White Rose”) and holds artifacts that are central to their story of heroism in the face of brutal oppression. The White Rose was a resistance movement founded by siblings Sophie and Hans Scholl and their friend Alexander Schmorell in the city of Munich in 1942. All three founders were enrolled students at the University of Munich. (Sophie...

Podcast: Abandoned Chacaltaya Ski Resort

December 1, 2021

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit hear from the caretakers of a skiers’ paradise in Bolivia that became a ghost town. 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 stories. Join us daily, Monday...

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