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10 Places With Kaleidoscope-Colored Nature
Welcome to Where to Wander, our selection of the best under-the-radar destinations in 2025. To see more surprising sites around the world that have fewer tourists and more locals, check out all of Atlas Obscura’s favorite places to travel this year. There are some places in the world where you expect to see multiple colors together. Fields of wildflowers, for example, or the early stages of autumn. Otherwise, many of us expect nature to play by certain rules, where...

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Corporate Hospitality: Successful Planning and Implementation
Corporate hospitality is sometimes described as rolling out the red carpet for guests or providing entertainment. This is part of hospitality, but it’s better to think of it as showing everything defining your individual brand. One of the reasons hospitality is important comes down to the basic need to ensure corporate customers feel valued. However, The post Corporate Hospitality: Successful Planning and Implementation appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Check-in Timing and Process Explained
Hotel check-in timing refers to when guests can check into a room or check out after their stay. It’s often best to consider it as a window where staff and guests can align their needs. The timing is important to guests because it can limit or control their schedule. At the same time, it’s important The post Hotel Check-in Timing and Process Explained appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Ahlat Seljuk Cemetery in Ahlat, Turkey
Ahlat Selçuklu Mezarlığı is, as the locals will proudly tell you, the largest Islamic cemetery in Turkey and the fourth-largest in the world. Sandwiched between Lake Van to the south, Mount Suphan to the east, and Mount Nemrut towering to the west, the setting is stunning. But the decorated gravestones are the real attraction; standing an average of six feet (two meters) tall and carved from red basalt, they have a small protrusion at the top unknown in Western...

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'Vertebración y Desvertebración' in El Médano, Spain
The Canary Islands are a popular whale-watching destination, with primarily pilot whales being seen in their waters. In the past this was different and the locals would hunt these creatures. In El Médano, a replica whale spine commemorates this history.  Vertebración y Desvertebración (Vertebration and Desvertebration) is a sandstone sculpture made by Guillermo Batista, which can be found on the easternmost tip of the town. It is a set of two sandstone replicas of whale bones. In one, seven...

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TARDIS Bus Shelter in Narrogin, Australia
On a rural road in Western Australia, tucked back next to a driveway, there is a traditional London police call box. If you watched the television series Doctor Who, you might suspect that it’s bigger on the inside. This a full-size replica of the TARDIS, the time and space travel machine hidden inside a call box. This one is electrified, with lights and a working control panel. Be careful of the button labeled, “Don’t press this.” The replica TARDIS...

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Bârsana Monastery in Bârsana, Romania
The Convent of the Holy Apostles, the largest and most impressive in northwest Romania, stands on a plateau looking down on the Iza River. It was rebuilt starting in 1993 on the site of an old monastery abandoned during the 1790s and is now home to an Orthodox community of nuns. The church, designed by the architect Dorel Cordoș and built by a team of local carpenters (Ioan Știopei Buga, Petru Boris, Vasile Rus, Toader Bârsan, Ioan Bârsan, and...

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Ghantaghar in Kathmandu, Nepal
Watching over the city of Kathmandu, and the university students who daily pace back and forth beneath this belfry, the Ghantaghar clock tower has withstood the test of time. The name translates literally to “hour house,” and it has dominated Kathmandu’s skyline since it was built in 1894 by Premier Bir Shumsher of the prominent Rana family. This 100-foot-tall edifice housed Shumsher’s library in addition to the British-made clock until 1901 when the Premier died. The original structure sadly...

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Can Metrics from Other Industries Bring Value...
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Is there value to be had in introducing metrics from other industries into hospitality? Do you think they have a place in Hotel Revenue Management? (Question by Pablo Torres)  Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Pablo Torres – Hotel Consultant Dr. Betsy The post Can Metrics from Other Industries Bring Value to Hospitality? appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Integrating Sustainability Practices into Hotel Marketing Strategies
Question for Our Hotel Marketing Expert Panel How can sustainability practices be integrated into hotel marketing strategies to appeal to the growing eco-conscious consumer base? What are the common challenges? (Question by Michael J. Goldrich)  Our Marketing Expert Panel Michael J. Goldrich – Founder & Chief Advisor, Vivander The post Integrating Sustainability Practices into Hotel Marketing Strategies appeared first on Revfine.com.

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This Book Contains a Century of Historical...
Since 2021, Barry Enderwick has charmed the Internet with his unfiltered reviews of “olden tymee” sandwiches. There’s the 1936 banana, cheese, pickle sandwich (“I thought it was going to be weird, but it’s not bad actually”) and the 1926 Crisco sandwich, made with creamed vegetable shortening on white bread “like some evil frosting,” he says. “You could hork it down.” Sandwiches of History may have started on a whim, but Enderwick’s followers have mushroomed to well over 600,000 between...

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‘Homesick Hachiko’ in Odate, Japan
Hachi, also known as Hachiko, is arguably one of the best-known dogs—or historical figures, even—in Japan. He famously waited for his master outside Shibuya Station for a decade after his death, becoming a symbol of loyalty. Now a statue of Hachiko stands on the spot, an iconic meet-up spot in Tokyo. Unbeknownst to most, there’s another Hachiko statue in the city of Ōdate in Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region up north. The connection? This is his birthplace, the...

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Hargeysa Cultural Center's Tape Wall in Hargeisa,...
For the vast majority of Somali history, a massive body of cultural heritage was preserved only orally. It was not that Somali society had never developed writing; archeological work has uncovered ancient stone inscriptions spanning thousands of years. The written word was just not a popular invention, seemingly ill-suited for a historically nomadic people. Thus countless thousands of stories, songs, and poems were passed down orally across centuries, often verbatim, and never written down. Poetry was especially culturally important....

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Loughcrew Cairns in Ballineale, Ireland
While Newgrange may be the most famous Neolithic passage tomb in Ireland, Loughcrew is one of the most fabled. Around 3300-2900 BC, rock cairns were piled high atop four hills that sit side-by-side in modern-day County Meath. These hills are known as Slieve na Calliagh, or “Mountains of the Witch.” Legend says that a giant witch hopped from hill to hill, dropping rocks from her apron as she went, thereby creating Loughcrew Cairns. On her last leap, she fell...

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'Embracing Peace' in Civitavecchia, Italy
This imposing 25-foot-tall statue is one of a number by the artist Seward Johnson. Originally displayed in Florida under the name Unconditional Surrender, it is now called Embracing Peace, a name that has been in use since around 2015. The statue depicts a kiss between a sailor (George Mendosa) and a dental assistant (Grete Zimmer Friedman) on the declaration of the end of the war with Japan in 1945. It’s based on photographic images, taken in Times Square and...

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