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Antarctic Explorers Wrote Cute, Funny Stories to...

March 4, 2024

The sun hadn’t been seen above the horizon in months and wouldn’t return for another few weeks. Griffith Taylor, a geologist on Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova expedition, had little to do. He scanned a years-old issue of a magazine from back home in England, his bored eye catching on a ladies’ fashion column detailing the new styles of the day. After a moment, he looked up to see his bunkmate, fellow geologist Frank Debenham, working on his rock...

Flambé Your Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

March 4, 2024

THIS ARTICLE IS ADAPTED FROM THE MARCH 2, 2024, EDITION OF GASTRO OBSCURA’S FAVORITE THINGS NEWSLETTER. YOU CAN SIGN UP HERE. Here at Gastro Obscura, we really like playing with fire. There was the time that editor Sam O’Brien made feuerzangenbowle, a flaming German rum punch with roots in the rowdy student culture of the 1700s. Then there was the night I risked my fingers and eyebrows with the Victorian party game known as Snapdragon, where players compete to...

Podcast: What Happens to the Food You...

March 4, 2024

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we go inside one of the busiest airports on Earth with help from a podcast friend, Andres O’Hara of The Sporkful, to discover the fate of all the food confiscated by customs. Spoiler alert: It doesn’t get eaten. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you...

The Atlas Obscura Crossword: March Themeless

March 4, 2024

Atlas Obscura’s weekly crossword comes to us from Natan Last, a writer who also helps develop policy and digital products for refugees and asylum seekers. His work can be found in The Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Yorker, and other publications, and he’s currently working on a nonfiction book about 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...

Is it Realistic to Focus on Profitability...

February 27, 2024

Question for Our Revenue Management Expert Panel: Is it realistic to focus on profitability over revenue? How should revenue management teams manage stakeholder expectations? Where might challenges arise? (Question by Diego Fernandez Perez De Ponga) Our Revenue Management Expert Panel Diego Fernández Pérez De Ponga – Director The post Is it Realistic to Focus on Profitability over Revenue? appeared first on Revfine.com.

8 Tips to Improve OTA Conversion Rates

February 26, 2024

In the highly competitive world of online hospitality, mastering the art of OTA listings is not just an advantage—it’s a necessity. With most travelers making their accommodation decisions based on OTA rankings and reviews, understanding how to climb these ranks and convert interest into bookings is the key to success. Your OTA listing can distinguish The post 8 Tips to Improve OTA Conversion Rates appeared first on Revfine.com.

Short-Term Rental Data: A New Technique to...

February 25, 2024

The hospitality sector has long underestimated the influence of short-term rental accommodation on their operations, viewing it as a specialized lodging type that wouldn’t impact conventional hotel reservations. However, the swift expansion of short-term rentals, spearheaded by organizations like Airbnb and VRBO, has made an undeniable mark on the hotel industry. The Importance of Short-Term The post Short-Term Rental Data: A New Technique to Forecast Demand at Your Hotel appeared first on Revfine.com.

Guest Expectations in 2024: 8 Trends You...

February 24, 2024

As time passes and technology keeps evolving, we enter into a new era of guest expectations. It’s no longer enough to simply meet their needs, and the challenge now lies in exceeding them. In this dynamic landscape, where every guest is an insightful traveler armed with high expectations, how can you ensure your property fulfills The post Guest Expectations in 2024: 8 Trends You Should Be Aware of appeared first on Revfine.com.

Swiss Maps Are Full of Hidden Secrets

February 23, 2024

Swiss humor. Now there’s two words you don’t often see together. In fact, Google Trends lists zero occurrences of the phrase between 2004 and now. Even “German humor” produces a graph (albeit a rather flat one). But not only is there some evidence that Swiss comedy does exist, it might just be that being well-hidden is kind of its thing. Find it and laugh. Or don’t, and the joke’s on you! That evidence, as it turns out, is cartographic....

The Great Hall within the Royal Exchange...

February 23, 2024

From the outside, Manchester’s Royal Exchange looks similar to many of the other Victorian-era buildings around the city center, although the ground floor features multiple shops and restaurants as well as an arcade running through the center of the building. Steps on the east and west sides of the building lead to entrances with signs for the Royal Exchange Theatre mounted above on glass awnings. The average passerby might assume that these entrances lead to a lobby adjoining the...

This 1,700 Year Old Egg Never Broke—And...

February 23, 2024

About 50 miles northwest of London sits a very old wishing well. Romans used to toss objects into the water here, offering items to the gods for good luck. Nearly 2,000 years later, archaeologists are still finding ancient artifacts from what is now a large, muddy pit, including coins, ceramic pots, shoes, and even bones from between 270 and 300 AD. The site is called Berryfields, which has an Iron Age Roman settlement along its southern edge and medieval...

Geographical Center of the Entire United States...

February 23, 2024

In an open field about 20 miles north of the more accessible Center of the Nation Monument, there is a small marker that indicates the actual center of the United States, as designated by the U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Determining the center of an irregularly shaped land mass sitting on the curved surface of our planet is a difficult task. Coming up with an answer has posed a unique challenge for mathematicians and surveyors. It gets even more complicated when...

World's Largest Kokopelli in Camp Verde, Arizona

February 23, 2024

All across the Four Corners region of the United States, visitors will often come across a half-kitsch, half-spiritual figure known as Kokopelli. The popularity of the Kokopelli figure crested across the Southwest during the early 21st century, but its origins lie before the dawn of the historical record. And with more than a thousand years of history behind it, the largest and most imposing likeness of this mythic flute-playing figure can be found in a roadside Starbucks parking lot...

Hugin Longship in Cliffsend, England

February 23, 2024

The ship was a gift from the Danish government to commemorate the 1500th anniversary of the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, legendary brothers who led the first Anglo-Saxon tribes. It’s said that the brothers landed at nearby Ebbsfleet in 449 CE, shortly after the betrothal of Hengist’s daughter, Rowena, to King Vortigen of Kent in exchange for land. This Hugin itself is a replica of the Gokstad ship, a Viking vessel dating from the 9th century. Though the ship...

Grand Mosque of Agadez in Agadez, Niger

February 23, 2024

Built in 1515 during the reign of the Songhai Empire, this mosque showcases the culmination of decades of the Tuareg people’s desire to perfect their building methods. According to legend, the mosque was built in one night, after Isha prayer, before the sun rose the following morning by Muslim scholar Imam Bahkili. The minaret that sits at the heart of the shrine stands approximately 27 meters (89 feet) tall, making it the tallest mud-brick structure in the world. You...

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