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How to Attract Different Segments Through a...

May 4, 2024

With so many ways to reach potential guests, developing an effective distribution strategy is more important than ever. Leisure demand is slowing down after years of exponential growth post-pandemic, while other segments, namely international, corporate, and group travel, are starting to pick up again. For hotels seeking to increase their bookings and maximize their revenue, The post How to Attract Different Segments Through a Diverse Distribution Strategy appeared first on Revfine.com.

The Most Dangerously Populated Latitudes in the...

May 3, 2024

Red and blue are a highly evocative color pairing. Put them together, and you can’t help but think hot or cold. Or left and right. A map of red and blue, but not politics Ironically, their political symbolism is reversed on either side of the Atlantic. In the U.S., red states are to the right (figuratively, of course) of blue ones. In Europe and other parts of the world, red is the color of the revolutionary left, blue of...

What Can We Learn From the Ruins...

May 3, 2024

It’s hard to imagine how a building as grand as the City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, could ever become abandoned. Completed in 1926, the spectacular nine-story complex also included, at one time, a 1,000-seat theater, offices, a dining hall, and a gymnasium. Built at a cost of over $800,000—equivalent to over $14 million today—City Methodist served more than 3,000 congregants at its peak before dwindling attendance and lack of funds led to its closure in 1975. Today, ivy...

Lake Avernus in Pozzuoli, Italy

May 3, 2024

In Latin, as well as in English, the toponym “Avernus” is synonymous with “hell” or “underworld.” It comes from the name of a volcanic crater lake in Campania, Italy. It means “birdless” in Ancient Greek (áornos), likely named so for the toxic fumes seeping from the area, which is part of the Phlegraean Fields of active volcanoes. In ancient Roman beliefs, Lake Avernus was considered the entrance to Hades, and its name grew to be a synonym for the...

The Child-Eating Wampus Cat Prowling the American...

May 3, 2024

The wampus cat appeared in the American South, seemingly out of nowhere, at the turn of the 20th century. In the newspapers of the day, the frightening figment was, for most, nothing but a name associated with feral violence. In those early days of the 1900s, “wampus cat” was an epithet for the local ne’er do well in Fort Smith, Arkansas, a mascot for an amateur baseball team outside of Houston, and the moniker of the “meanest, wildest, hardest...

National Silk Art Museum in Weston, Missouri

May 3, 2024

It began when collector John Pottie found what he thought was a print of a game of billiards. Removing the art from the frame, he realized it was actually woven silk. How could such a small piece of art be created from fibers and a loom? The fascination ignited; soon the National Silk Art Museum was founded in the quaint winery town of Weston, Missouri. The creation of silk-woven tapestries harkens back to the 1700s. Tapestries are composed of...

Wild Life: Helpful Honeyguides

May 3, 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). You’re walking in the woods in Mozambique, humming to yourself. Suddenly, a small brown bird appears. You glimpse him in the trees ahead as he calls out: chatter-chatter-chatter-chatter! Don’t be alarmed. If you can, follow that bird wherever he goes. He’s trying to get both of you a snack. Across sub-Saharan Africa,...

How to Consult an Onion Oracle

May 3, 2024

On a cold New Year’s Eve in 1967 in Ashley, North Dakota, newlyweds Donna and Delbert Eszlinger sliced excitedly into a large, round yellow onion. First, they split it lengthwise down the middle. Then, carefully, the couple peeled back the onion’s layers, laying 12 fresh, eye-watering sections side-by-side, and topping each with a teaspoon of salt. The onion wasn’t the makings of a celebratory dish for the new year, but a window into the future. While the ground outside...

Cement City in Donora, Pennsylvania

May 3, 2024

During World War I, the town of Donora, Pennsylvania, located about 30 miles south of Pittsburgh, roared with activity. The mills in Donora manufactured steel for all sorts of wartime materiel and zinc, used to galvanize the steel to prevent rust. The mills required a growing number of workers, and those workers needed houses to live in, an increasingly scarce commodity. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote in 1915, the year the zinc factory was built, that “accommodations are proving entirely insufficient. Some...

The Legends of Dilmun in Manama, Bahrain

May 3, 2024

The Bahrain National Museum has on display a captivating tableau depicting the ancient Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh and Enki (aka Enkidu). The connection between Gilgamesh and the Dilmun civilization lies in the epic’s references to Dilmun (modern-day Bahrain) as a paradisiacal land of bliss and eternal youth. The museum has an entire hall dedicated to the Dilmun civilization, which persisted in this region from 5,000 B.C. to 400 B.C. Each element of the tableau is rich in symbolism, reflecting...

7 Stories to Toast To Cinco de...

May 3, 2024

Over the last half-century Cinco de Mayo has morphed from a relatively quiet commemoration of the Mexican army’s victory over French troops in the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, into a United States-centric celebration, usually centered around tacos and margaritas (and often mistaken for Mexican Independence Day, which is actually September 16). But this year Atlas Obscura is marking the occasion with a deep dive into Mexico’s culture from the amber mines of the southern state of...

Denver Avenue Station in Tulsa, Oklahoma

May 3, 2024

Downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma contains many examples of Art Deco architecture, but among those many marvels, one building stands out as nearly a parody of the style. The “fauxback” Denver Avenue Station, with its exaggerated Art Deco elements, is not an architectural wonder. Instead, its form tells the story of Tulsa’s boom, protracted decline, and hope for its revival. Tulsa’s prominence as an Art Deco city is mostly a matter of happenstance. On June 24, 1901, oil shot out 30...

Interview with CEO and Founder Uli Pillau...

May 3, 2024

In this interview, we’ll be talking with Uli Pillau. Pillau founded Apaleo, the world’s first API-driven property management platform for the hotel industry, based upon an API-first architecture. This has created a full development hub for the industry as a whole. Can you tell us a bit about The post Interview with CEO and Founder Uli Pillau of Apaleo appeared first on Revfine.com.

The 19th-Century ‘Strawberry Parties’ That Raised Money...

May 2, 2024

Though the New Year might start on January 1, and the calendar puts mid-March as the start of spring, May is when it finally feels like winter is over. In England and North America, May and June also once meant the return of an exciting seasonal celebration: the strawberry party. Jane Austen’s 1815 novel Emma depicts a June strawberry party hosted by the landowner Mr. Knightley. With the help of the boorish Mrs. Elton character, the reader gets a...

Profondo Rosso in Rome, Italy

May 2, 2024

In the upscale Prati neighborhood of Rome hides a sinister sanctum of horror with an underground dungeon displaying the darker side of Italian cinema. Founded in 1989, Profondo Rosso is a lot more than a mere little shop of horror memorabilia. To begin with, its owner is none other than Dario Argento himself – the giallo legend known for such glaring, gory, suspenseful works as Suspiria (1977) and Deep Red (1975), the latter of which served as its namesake....

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