tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55421981575594460462024-02-07T18:47:30.652+00:00the receptionistreceptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-41273826023075201552010-11-24T18:27:00.006+00:002010-11-29T13:04:11.043+00:00On the phone<div style="color: #666666;">R: receptionist; G: guest</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">Drin, Drin!</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">R: Reception, good evening, how may i help you?</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">G: Sorry, i do i make the television to speak in english?</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">R: !!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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</div>receptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-91490333274272546322010-08-10T12:43:00.006+01:002010-08-12T18:46:46.486+01:00Tune Hotels, low-cost hotels from Malaysia<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" height="390" width="550"><param name="movie" value="http://tv.repubblica.it/static/swf/z_adv_player.swf"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param value="bgColor=black&autostart=false&keyT=&key=&baseURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/static/images/player/&file=repubblicatv/file/2010/cheaphotel100810.flv&repeat=false&logo=1&strip=0&nielsenBrand=repubblicatv_&brand=brand_repubblicaradio&dState=normal&scaleMethod=fit&rel=false&fsType=fl&baseURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/static/images/player/&videoTitle=Due sterline a notte: lhotel è low cost&streamURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/due-sterline-a-notte-l-hotel-e-low-cost/51573?video&nielsenBrand=repubblicatv_&pub=mondo###" name="flashvars"><embed src="http://tv.repubblica.it/static/swf/z_adv_player.swf" allowScriptAccess="always" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="550" height="390" flashvars="bgColor=black&autostart=false&keyT=&key=&baseURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/static/images/player/&file=repubblicatv/file/2010/cheaphotel100810.flv&repeat=false&logo=1&strip=0&nielsenBrand=repubblicatv_&brand=brand_repubblicaradio&dState=normal&scaleMethod=fit&rel=false&fsType=fl&baseURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/static/images/player/&videoTitle=Due sterline a notte: lhotel è low cost&streamURL=http://tv.repubblica.it/copertina/due-sterline-a-notte-l-hotel-e-low-cost/51573?video&nielsenBrand=repubblicatv_&pub=mondo###"></embed></object><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The first Tune hotel in europe will open in London the next 30th of august.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">A good idea or not?</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Does it win the competition of the traditional hotels?</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">The operators in hotel industry are sceptic, but why paying more for something the guest doesn't use?</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">And just remind that the main service of the hotel experience is the bed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">So why don't succed?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">In my opinion, these hotels will have success, many hotel groups will invest in it, to crate low-cost brands, not directly assimilated to the mother brand, to don't affect the brand image built in many years of competition.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Or maybe they could associate it to their mother brand, just to say: "This is our way to do low cost".</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Surely there are segments of market not sensible to price that will continue to prefer the standard hotels offer, and is not fair to reduce this kind of offer, just to a list of services.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">The evocation of the experience is something priceless, so pay attention.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">The winning way for the low-cost hotel should be to create a positive and authentic evocation of experience in the minds of the potential guests, something not too empty.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Besides, the plus should be the saved money to be used for other activities as shopping and eating, just to say ones. </span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">Business men maybe can reproach only that they won't have a real desk to work on, but for other reason i think they could approve the idea.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">In all the cases good luck to the first low-cost hotel chain.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you like the post, please leave a comment, thanks!</span>receptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-70942148627209721472010-08-07T19:00:00.002+01:002010-08-11T02:36:08.739+01:00Advertising Flies<div><embed allowfullscreen="true" allownetworking="all" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="image=http://adland.tv/adland_video/148748/3381/thumb.jpg&skin=http://adland.tv/sites/default/
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<a href="http://adland.tv/commercials/eichborn-banners-flies-real-ambient-germany">Eichborn - Banners on flies (for real) - ambient, <br />
Germany</a><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;">What an amazing idea!</div><div style="color: #666666;">Advertising flies with small banners attached with a special wax that disappear after some hours.</div><div style="color: #666666;">This happened at book exibition in Frankfurt in 2009, where an editor had this this extraordinary idea, to use some flies to do advertising through all the exibition.</div><div style="color: #666666;">Watch the video and comment please.</div><div style="color: #666666;">Thanks.</div></div>receptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-48504447336538317942010-08-07T13:27:00.004+01:002010-08-11T02:35:32.621+01:00Top 10 hotel groups of the world 2010.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #666666;">Source: DatBase MKG Hospitality - may 2010.</span><br />
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<div align="left"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #666666;">Complete story at the following address: </span> </span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://hotelonline.com/News/PR2010_3rd/Jul10_HotelRanking.html">http://hotelonline.com/News/PR2010_3rd/Jul10_HotelRanking.html</a></span><br />
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</tbody></table>receptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-35505458470744790672010-05-29T16:10:00.008+01:002010-08-09T19:37:13.515+01:00Jumper's indestructible glasses<span style="color: #666666;">Hello, i suggest you this viral video for the advertising campaign of this extraordinary, indestructible pair of glasses.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">And this word, <b>"indestructible"</b>, remind me to us receptionists, indestructibles to high-level stress and guest's requests. We flex but we don't tear....lol</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">If you are interested, i leave you the </span><a href="http://www.jumper-s.it/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">link</span></a><span style="color: #666666;"> to Jumper's website.</span><br />
<span style="color: #666666;">The campaign seems to be effective and attractive, because after seeing this video i want a pair of Jumper's too.</span><span style="color: #666666;"><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">Jumper's the indestructible glasses for indestructible receptionists!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">If you like this post, please leave a comment, thanks!</span></span>receptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-12775062868163639922010-05-09T20:51:00.004+01:002010-08-09T19:36:19.558+01:00How to tie a tie<div style="color: #666666;">How many times in your receptionist life did you make a necktie knot?</div><div style="color: #666666;">How many times did you try and try again without having the right result?</div><div style="color: #666666;">Do you know the name of the tie knot you do daily before starting work?</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">What is a Windsor? And an Half Windsor? And an Onassis?</div><div style="color: #666666;">Right, read carefully this post and watch to the videos to know the 4 most common tie knots, plus a fifth knot not too common but i think the best for its linear result, and all your dubts will be easily clarified.</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">After that you will be capable to tie a tie as you prefer, avoiding to use the most common Four in Hand knot, the easiest and fastest knot, but surely not the most beautiful one. </div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">For us, at reception desk, is very important the figure, cause we are the first image of the hotel for the guests and the first impression of the managemet attitude.</div><div style="color: #666666;">So it's clear that a receptionist with a nice impeccable tie knot will give to the guest a first professional impression of himself and of the hotel.</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">After that i will leave you watching to the 5 videos, hoping that will be helpful for you.</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">1. Four in Hand Knot</div><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;">4. Pratt Knot</div><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;">And the last one, the Onassis Knot that for its elegance is the most beautiful one, the tie goes straight down without winkles. Absolutely Fantastic! </div><br />
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<span style="color: #666666;">And so? Are you here?</span><br />
<div style="color: #666666;">Did you choose your tie knot?</div><div style="color: #666666;">Or did you understand wich knot you do daily?</div><div style="color: #666666;">Well; i just remember you that we have to thank our croatian friends for the tie invention.</div><span style="color: #666666;">In facts the croatian cavaliers, making war for the french king, Luis XIV, used to wear a scarf around the neck, called "croatta scarf", by whom the name "cravate" given by the french, deriving from "hrvat", that means "croatian".</span><br />
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<div style="color: #666666;">Here some link to find out other tie knots:</div><div style="color: #666666;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpMDcu7pjs" style="color: #cc0000;" target="_blank">Italian</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7O-YNNhjb0" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Cavendish</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtJwhJzPxsY" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Atlantic</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9llIP5aH0XY" style="color: red;" target="_blank"">Prince Albert</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAJmHsL0lIE" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Saint Andrew's</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgF0IaCAoA" style="color: red;" target="_blank">Double</a>.</div><div style="color: #666666;">In total exist between 50 and 80 different tie knots, even if in many cases the difference is so thin, that most of them seem to be the same.</div><div style="color: #666666;">For more information here you have the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necktie" style="color: red;" target="_blank">link</a> to wikipedia page about necktie and its origins.<br />
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<div style="color: #666666;">Santiago de Chile.</div><div style="color: #666666;">This is an advertising done by a company who sells chips, to promote its product.</div><div style="color: #666666;">The idea took place for the imminent beginning of the World Cup Championship in South Africa in june 2010.<br />
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If you like this post, please leave a comment, thanks! </div>receptionisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00704098474033940584noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5542198157559446046.post-19413053067065948302010-04-30T13:15:00.009+01:002010-08-09T19:35:36.641+01:00Pay attention to what you say!<div style="color: #666666;"><b>G</b> as guest</div><div style="color: #666666;"><b>R</b> as receptionist</div><div style="color: #666666;">the guests are a couple.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #666666;"><b>G</b>: Good evening!</div><div style="color: #666666;"><b>R</b>: Good evening Madame. (smile)</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;"><b>G</b>: We are looking to eat some snacks, something simple nearby, could you reccomend us anything?</div><div style="color: #666666;"><b>R</b>: Yes, sure! Do you know "crepes" (sound like <b>crap</b>)? There is a good "crepes" (<b>crap</b>) restaurant near the hotel if you want i can show you on the map how to get there!</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">The guests (a couple) look at me in very strange way saying: "<b>Crap</b>"? </div><div style="color: #666666;">and me: "Yes crepes (<b>crap</b>)! It is very good!</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #666666;">At that moment, i understood the misunderstanding and so i wrote on a piece of paper "<b>CREPES</b>".</div><div style="color: #666666;">G: Aahhhh, <b>CREPES</b>, not "<b>crap</b>"...</div><div style="color: #666666;"><br />
R: Yes, <b>CREPES!</b><br />
<b></b></div><div style="color: #666666;">The lady, in the general funny situation, laughs and tell me that they were looking for something different but thanks me for the <b>crap</b> (<b>CREPES</b>) suggestion, that they should have taken in consideration maybe for another day. </div><div style="color: #666666;">G: Bye! (laughing)</div><div style="color: #666666;">R: Bye have a nice night (laughing too)!<br />
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