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Quote of the Week
"Making New Year resolutions is one thing.Remaining resolute and seeing them through is quite another" .
Alex Morritt
Tweet of the Week
A brutally brilliant Happy New Year tweet
Recalling Germany's famous 7-1 thrashing of Brazil in the semi-finals of the 2014 World Cup - in which Kroos scored two of the goals - he very cleverly used the flags of both nations to represent the numbers one and seven.
Also going the extra mile by using the Portuguese word for happy - "Feliz" - Kroos's tweet quickly went viral.
News of the Week
Quest for UK's top Chefs begins at the end of the month. The Royal Academy of Culinary Arts is to launch 8th Master of Culinary Arts (MCA)
Inaugurated in 1987, The Master of Culinary Arts (MCA) is held every four years and is seen to be the ultimate accolade, awarded in recognition of outstanding craftsmanship for Chefs, Pastry Chefs and Restaurant Managers in the UK. The MCA was based on the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (MOF) and was originally known as the Meilleur Ouvrier de Grande Bretagne. It recognises individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the industry through continuing efforts to improve the standards of food, cooking and service in the UK. Read more here Story of the Week
Lowther Hotel in Yorkshire named as oldest in England after Royal Clarence burnt down
Photo credit exeterexpressandecho.co.uk A 200-year-old hotel has claimed the prestigious accolade of becoming Britain's oldest hotel by default - after its predecessor burnt down. VisitEngland have handed the crown to a dock worker's refuge which dates back to 1824 after a fire destroyed the Royal Clarence Hotel in Exeter.
eHotelier Hospitality News
Iran broadcasts it’s tourism potential: The television news pictures of centrifuges, nuclear power plants and deadlocked negotiations, have given way to visions of beautiful beaches on the Caspian Sea riviera, sun-drenched islands in the Persian Gulf and cultural sites second to none – Iran is back on the tourist map, according to the region’s leading observers. Find out more Trivago goes public: Trivago, a global hotel search platform backed by Expedia, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 26,110,118 American depositary shares (ADSs) representing Class A shares of its affiliate, travel B.V.* (the Company) at $11.00 per ADS. Learn more Morocco to join Emirates. A380 network Emirates, voted the World’s Best Airline in the 2016 Skytrax World Airline Awards, announced today that it will operate the first ever commercial Airbus A380 flight to Morocco and North Africa, when it takes the iconic double decker aircraft to Casablanca on 26 March 2017. Find out moreGlobal Hospitality News
Introducing new hospitality group – Pulse Hotels & Resorts: The resorts will use the latest technologies that will make guests pre, post and during-stay experience seamless and interactive. Find out more 2016 see sharp rise in buyers using sharing economy suppliers: More than a quarter (28 per cent) of travel managers now include sharing economy providers (aka interrupters) in their travel policy, compared to 8 per cent last year – a rise of 250%. Learn more Workers reveal plans to land new jobs in 2017, according to CareerBuilder Survey: According to a new CareerBuilder survey, more than one in five workers (22 percent) are planning to change jobs in 2017, similar to last year (21 percent). Among younger workers, the numbers are even higher. Read more 2017 is the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development: The International Year aims to support a change in policies, business practices and consumer behavior towards a more sustainable tourism sector than can contribute effectively to the Sustainable Development Goals - a set of seventeen aspirational "Global Goals" with 169 targets between them. Spearheaded by the United Nations. Find out more