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Podcast: Hartsdale Pet Cemetery
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit Hartsdale Pet Cemetery. Just north of New York City, the cemetery was founded in 1896 and is the oldest operating pet cemetery in the United States. It’s here that dearly departed four-legged friends—and sometimes, even their owners—come to rest. Be sure to grab your tissues. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring,...

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The Perseid Meteor Shower Is Summer's Best...
Atlas Obscura’s Wondersky columnist Rebecca Boyle is an award-winning science journalist and author of the upcoming Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are (January 2024, Random House). Throughout the summer, she’ll be sharing the stories and secrets of our wondrous night sky. When you wake up tomorrow, whether you rise with the sun or long after it, think for a moment about our journey through the cosmos. The sun...

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Podcast: Gullah Museum
Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit a museum in Georgetown, South Carolina that’s dedicated to preserving and prioritizing the rich and historic Gullah Geechee culture. 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....

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Hotel Front Desk Software: What Is It,...
Hotel front desk software describes any software designed to assist with front office tasks. This includes several different types of software, including property management systems and point-of-sale systems. In this article, you can explore these software types in greater depth, learn about key features, and understand the key benefits. Quick Menu: How is the Hotel The post Hotel Front Desk Software: What Is It, Main Features & Examples appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How to Make Viking Funerary Flatbread
Gastro Obscura’s Summer Cookout columnist Paula Marcoux is a food historian and the author of Cooking With Fire. Throughout the summer, she’ll be sharing recipes and stories from the luminous history of open-fire cooking. Ah, there’s nothing quite like an aromatic loaf of freshly baked bread, still crackling and steaming from the oven. But for archaeologists, that option—so enticing to normal people—might be a second choice to a fragment of bread that has been incinerated with a human corpse,...

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Airline Revenue Management: What is It, How...
Given the volatility of demand and the high fixed costs involved in operating commercial flights, it’s no surprise that the airline industry has always been at the forefront of revenue management. Commercial airlines were some of the first companies to analyze consumer behavior and tailor their prices to the information. In this article, you’ll learn The post Airline Revenue Management: What is It, How Does it Work & Examples appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Business Plan: Write a Successful and...
A hotel business plan is essential for anyone starting a new enterprise in the hotel industry. A business plan is a document that identifies your goals, objectives, and success strategies. It will be the foundation for your new operation. In this article, you’ll learn how to create a detailed and effective business plan for your The post Hotel Business Plan: Write a Successful and Effective Hotel Business Strategy Plan appeared first on Revfine.com.

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10 Tour Operators Hoteliers Should Partner With
Tour operators make great partners for hotels and resorts. Hotel owners can contract tour companies to sell rooms to the operator’s clients. By teaming up with a tour operator, hotels can draw in new guests and provide exciting new experiences for existing ones. In this article, you’ll discover some top tour operators and how they The post 10 Tour Operators Hoteliers Should Partner With appeared first on Revfine.com.

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How Hotels Can Tackle Inflation and Boost...
After a strong end to 2022 – with European hotel performance reaching 2019 levels – January 2023 saw energy costs peak in many countries. Coupled with a fall in demand, the increased expenses of hotel operations led to a fall in. Although there is evidence of recovery into Spring/Summer, hoteliers must be alert to ensure The post How Hotels Can Tackle Inflation and Boost Profitability appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Hotel Marketing Plan: Tips & Tricks for...
A hotel marketing plan is important for establishing your marketing objectives, outlining how to achieve them, understanding your target audience(s), and pinpointing your unique selling proposition. In this article, you can learn more about how to create and continually modify your marketing plan. Quick Menu What is the Hotel Industry? What is a Hotel Marketing The post Hotel Marketing Plan: Tips & Tricks for Successful Hotel Marketing appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Changes in Post-Covid Breakdown of Direct Vs...
Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: When reviewing the number of direct website bookings Vs OTA bookings, have you seen any difference in this breakdown post-Covid? Has there been a shift in B2B and B2C? (Question by Ricardo Sereno) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Sandra Gannon The post Changes in Post-Covid Breakdown of Direct Vs OTA Bookings for Hotels appeared first on Revfine.com.

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Iglesia de la Merced in Panama City,...
This stucco and stone exterior feels visually out of place with its colonial surroundings in Panama City‘s historic Casco Viejo neighborhood. The reason for this is that the church is actually from the much older city of Panama Viejo, and was transported from its ruins. Located 12 kilometers away from Panama‘s historic city center, Panama Viejo is the oldest city established by European settlers in North America, dating back to 1519. Panama Viejo was destroyed in 1671 during an...

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Jayne's Hill in West Hills, New York
About a mile from Walt Whitman’s birthplace is Jayne’s Hill, located in West Hills County Park in West Hills, Long Island. Although Whitman only lived in the house where was he born for the first four years of his life, he frequently returned to the area, where his family had roots for more than a century. On his visits, he enjoyed wandering the grounds of what is now the park, climbing up to what is the highest peak on...

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Pushcart Press in Sedgwick, Maine
Literally in the middle of the woods, you come across this tiny bookstore just off a road that overlooks Acadia National Park. Contained in a tiny shack, you walk in to see shelves filled with books and simply leave your payment in a tin on the table. It was created by Bill Henderson, the founder of independent publisher Pushcart Press,  who dubbed the Sedgwick, Maine, outpost “the World’s Smallest Bookstore.”

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Galgbacken (Gallow Hill) in Stockholm, Sweden
The death penalty is outlawed in most of the world these days, and has been for so long that many people can’t remember the times when it was not. In Sweden, this was 1862. The gallow hill was the main punishment site of Stockholm, dating back to sometime in the 17th century. (Before that there was another site.) It is about an hour’s walk away from the city center and back in the day death row prisoners would walk from...

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