堪比液体黄金的高档红酒

在苏富比纽约拍卖会上,一瓶备受关注的18升装1995年份白马庄Chateau·Cheval·Blanc·1995,以45375美元的高价出售给了一位南美私人收藏家,远远高于此前预期的5000-7000美元,成交价比预期翻了9倍,升值幅度达到900%。同时,来自苏富比的数据显示,在苏富比过去41年葡萄酒拍卖历史中,2011年的葡萄酒拍卖全球总成交额高达8547万美元,仅次于2010年的最     

飞行虽美妙 美酒也“晕机”

在高山之上,与白云为伴,同三两好友,酌几杯佳酿……长途飞行时,一杯美味的机上葡萄酒不仅可以舒缓疲劳,还有助你酣然入眠。如果你要打飞的出行了,那么先选择一款适合3万英尺的机舱葡萄酒,再开始你微醺的高空旅行吧。     

笋——时尚素食第一品

素食主义是一种饮食文化,表现出回归自然、回归健康和保护地球生态环境的返朴归真的文化理念。吃素,除了能获取天然纯净的均衡营养外,还能额外地体验到摆脱了都市喧嚣和欲望的愉悦。悄然传播的素食文化,使得素食越来越成为一个全球时尚的标签,越来越多的人开始选择吃素,而素食中的绝佳选择就是笋!笋类含有丰富的植物蛋白和膳食纤维、胡萝卜素、维生素B、维生素C、维生素E及钙、磷、铁等人体必需的营养成分。笋又有素食第一品之说,不仅是蔬菜,还是优良的药膳食材。     

鱼子酱 顶级食材的“黑珍珠”

"鱼子酱,你日子过得好时可以吃,日子过得坏时也可以吃;你胜利凯旋时是一种犒赏,大难临头时是一种慰藉。在你赚到第一个百万的那一天,品起鱼子酱来一定美妙之至;而在破产前夕享此美味,则是最后展示一种不服输的姿态,滋味也许更胜一筹呢;还有,爱情之花初绽时,可以吃;爱情之花凋零时,也可以吃。吃鱼子酱不愁找不到借口。你如果一时半会儿没想出     

A top box analysis of DinEX to optimize restaurant resources

This study examined the relative perceived importance of the various dimensions of the restaurant experience, as captured by DinEX. Over 1,000 U.S. restaurant patrons provided perceived importance ratings of six DinEX dimensions as they related to their most recent dining experience across a variety of meal periods and restaurant categories. To make comparisons, an innovative approach to analyzing top box data was utilized. The results indicate significant differences exist across each of the DinEX dimensions, with food quality emerging as the top concern of restaurant patrons. The results of the study offer valuable guidance to the restaurateur in terms of the distinct ordering of experience dimensions that were observed, as well as the straightforward methodology demonstrated for monitoring and evaluating customers’ importance perceptions.     

Competency analysis of top managers in the Taiwanese hotel industry

The purpose of this study was to identify top managers’ competencies in hotel unit leaders perceived to be most critical for career development, and using the Fuzzy Delphi and Analytic Hierarchy Process methods to determine perceptions of the importance of various competencies in different dimensions. This study uses snowball sampling methods to collect data from 25 hotel top managers and uses qualitative and quantitative surveys, including interviews, questionnaire review and a questionnaire survey. A two-stage research design is adopted to understand the differences in perceived competency requirements better. The analytical results demonstrate the required competencies of top managers in the hotel industry, and divide them into generic and technical dimensions, 18 competency domains, and 107 competency indices. The top three most important competency domains are “leadership,” “crisis management,” and “problem-solving.” The proposed management competency framework provides an important implication for educators, practitioners, and researchers.     

Performing femininity: Women at the top (doing and undoing gender)

Tourism research has primarily treated gender as a male-female dichotomy and has been constrained by a heterosexual matrix for empirical inquires. Such research, however, has failed to acknowledge the fluidity and multiplicity in theorizing gender. To redress this overlook, this study moves away from the conventional binary thinking and views gender as a performativity which is resulted from repetitive social performance. By conducting multiple field observations and interviews with 17 hotel female general managers working in Mainland China and Taiwan, this research presents the ways of doing and undoing gender by tourism female leaders and the extent to which the everlasting gender logic can be questioned.     

Tourism growth and income inequality: does Kuznets Curve hypothesis exist in top tourist arrival countries

This study examines the relationship between tourism and the income inequality in top 43 tourist arrival countries by using the data over the period of 1995–2015. We have applied advanced econometric techniques which include cross-sectional augmented IPS (CIPS) unit root test, bootstrap co-integration, Pedroni co-integration, fully modified ordinary least squares, and heterogeneous panel causality technique. The results confirm that all the variables are co-integrated in the long run. The result also shows that the tourism has a positive effect on income inequality in full and the region-wise sample. Furthermore, the Kuznets curve hypothesis is also tested and found its existence. This concludes that if the examined countries increase their tourism revenue this will help them to reduce income inequality. This study gives valuable policy implications for the government and the policy-makers.     

Gender diversity in hospitality and tourism top management teams: A systematic review of the last 10 years

Due to women still accounting for less than a quarter of hospitality and tourism executive-level positions, the purpose of this paper was to identify antecedents to and outcomes of gender diverse hospitality and tourism top management teams, describe potential mediators and moderators to these relationships, and provide directions for future research. A systematic review of gender diversity in hospitality and tourism top management teams (TMTs) was conducted between the years 2010 and 2020, resulting in 26 articles used for the thematic analysis. Antecedents, outcomes, mediators, and moderators of gender diverse hospitality and tourism TMTs were identified. The results indicated female role models, organizational structure, and organizational support as antecedents, while financial performance, business growth, and human resource outcomes were consequences. The resource advantage theory is proposed as an explanation for each of these relationships. This study fills a gap in previous literature by conducting a review of gender diversity, identifying critical gaps, and proposing an overarching theory.