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Podcast: From Seed to Significance

May 21, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Earlier this spring we shared the story of the city of Melbourne’s program to track trees, which morphed into a love fest. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we hear from you, with your love letters to trees that play a special role in your life. Want to be in an upcoming Atlas Obscura episode? We’re collecting listener stories right now about traveling with...

Can Music Make Your Food Taste Better?

May 20, 2024

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MAY 18, 2024, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Music is all about context. The same high-energy track that keeps you moving at a concert might feel disruptive and annoying if blasted at a restaurant. A 2018 study published in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Sciences even found that the louder a restaurant’s music is, the more likely customers are to order unhealthy foods, possibly...

The Ostrich Inn in Colnbrook, England

May 20, 2024

The Ostrich is a quaint coaching inn in the quiet Berkshire village of Colnbrook, Slough. Many sources claim the establishment is England’s third-oldest inn, dating it back to 1106, though others say it may only be as old as the 16th century. Beyond being one of England’s oldest, it is also often claimed to be one of the most haunted. The story goes, that in the 17th century, the inn was owned by a landlord named Jarman. With the...

Siberia’s Doorway to the Underworld Is Getting...

May 20, 2024

In Siberia’s Yana Highlands, a chunk of land roughly the shape of a giant stingray has been sinking down into a very large pit. Called the Doorway to the Underworld, the Batagay Megaslump (also known as the Batagaika Crater) is 200 acres and continues to widen. Scientists have known for a while that the permafrost crater has been continually melting and growing, but the expansion is even faster than they’d realized. In a new study, scientists were finally able...

For the Ancient Maya, Cracked Mirrors Were...

May 20, 2024

This story was originally published on The Conversation. It appears here under a Creative Commons license. Some people fear that breaking a mirror can lead to seven years of misfortune. The history of this superstition may go back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ascribed mysterious powers to reflected images. As a scholar of the Indigenous religions of the Americas, I know that the ancient Maya had a different take on cracked mirrors. During the first millennium, the...

Podcast: The Ludlow Massacre Site

May 20, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we learn about the Ludlow colony in southern Colorado—a place that was once a bustling tent city and haven for miners and their families. But it was also the site of one of the country’s most monumental and violent clashes of the labor movement. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: Inner Cities

May 20, 2024

This themed crossword comes from Zhouqin (C.C.) Burnikel, who grew up in Xi’an, China, before moving to the United States in 2001. She’s the author of Sip & Solve Easy Mini Crosswords. You can solve the puzzle below, or download it in .pdf or .puz. Note that the links in the clues will take you to Atlas Obscura pages that may contain the answer. Happy solving!

4 Steps for Improving Meetings & Events...

May 20, 2024

Revenue leaders across the globe devote a considerable amount of their efforts to driving room revenue performance. It’s an understandable decision, given that rooms are the obvious staple of any hotel operation and there are only so many hours in a day. 4 Steps for Improving Meetings & Events Revenue Performance With meetings and events The post 4 Steps for Improving Meetings & Events Revenue Performance appeared first on Revfine.com.

5 Reasons Why Implementing RMS in High...

May 19, 2024

Check-in lines, a full luggage store, and you running around, juggling hotel admin work, staff, customer service, marketing, and prices. Welcome to the high season. Amidst this chaos, implementing a new technology solution like a Revenue Management System (RMS) might be the last thing on your to-do list. However, here are five reasons why doing The post 5 Reasons Why Implementing RMS in High Season Makes Absolute Sense appeared first on Revfine.com.

Account Analytics: Optimize Corporate & Agency Performance...

May 18, 2024

Account Analytics is much more than most Sales Managers are currently equipped with, usually in an Excel sheet or PMS report: Room Nights, ADR, and Revenue per account. Understand how deeper Account Analytics across Corporate and Agency accounts can help your hotel’s commercial team analyze the entire segment of individual accounts and leverage the data The post Account Analytics: Optimize Corporate & Agency Performance with Data appeared first on Revfine.com.

These U.S. Cities Have More Parking Lots...

May 17, 2024

“The twin gods of Smooth Traffic and Ample Parking have turned our downtowns into places that are easy to get to, but not worth arriving at.” The quote is from urban designer Jeff Speck. It’s hard to think of a pithier one to describe the parking pandemic blighting America’s city centers—except perhaps the title of a Bloomberg article on the same topic: “Parking has eaten America’s cities”. That article cites a 2018 study of the space and money devoted...

Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language

May 17, 2024

Each week, Atlas Obscura is providing a new short excerpt from our upcoming book, Wild Life: An Explorer’s Guide to the World’s Living Wonders (September 17, 2024). In the early twentieth century, some prairie dog towns stretched for hundreds of miles. Cowboys and naturalists passing through described acres of sociable rodents, who would pop out of the ground and greet them with high-pitched chatter. Those visitors didn’t know it, but they were being described in turn. These squeaks and...

7 Stories of the World’s Rarest Animals

May 17, 2024

In honor of Endangered Species Day, held each year on the third Friday of May, we found some of the world’s most elusive creatures in the Atlas Obscura archive. Meet Puerto Rico’s wide-eyed frogs, Finland’s freshwater seals, and Indonesia’s singing dogs—and the scientists and citizens working to protect them. Puerto Rico’s Most Adorable Frogs Live in Caves and Fight Like ‘Gummy Bears’ by Hannah Tomasy Biologist Samantha Shablin is on a mission to learn more about the “cryptic” coquí...

Inside One Family's Mission to Revive an...

May 16, 2024

Ty Walker squats on the grassy banks of a 150-foot-long, 10-foot-wide earthen pond lifting a net filled with thrashing young rainbow trout from the churning spring water. He nudges a pair of curious Great Pyrenees away, then carefully drops a dozen fish into a large bucket of water and hoists it onto a scale for his wife, Shannon, to log the results in a notebook. “We’re calculating average weights to get a bead on how fast the fish are...

Smart Hotel Technology; 7 Technologies to Smart...

May 16, 2024

Smart Hotel Technology Smart hotel technology describes all of the new technologies that can be integrated to enhance the hospitality sector’s operation and guest experience. Some examples include AI, robotics, IoT, and general automation. These solutions offer both practical benefits and help meet the expectations of tech-savvy guests. Key Takeaways Smart Room Controls: Apps can The post Smart Hotel Technology; 7 Technologies to Smart Up Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

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