JW Marriott: Delivering Luxury
Staff training results in personal service delivery to luxury business travelers. www.marriott.com
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Disney Land Hong Kong by Asiatravel.com
Hong Kong Disneyland (Chinese: ???????) is the first theme park inside the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort and is owned and managed by the Hong Kong International Theme Parks, an incorporated company jointly owned by The Walt Disney Company and the Government of Hong Kong.
The fifth Disneyland style park, the park is located on reclaimed land in Penny’s Bay, Lantau Island. After years of negotiations and construction, the park opened to visitors on September 12, 2005, considered an auspicious date according to Chinese almanacs for the opening of a new business. Disney attempted to avoid problems of cultural backlash by attempting to incorporate Chinese culture, customs, and traditions when designing and building the resort, including adherence to the rules of Feng Shui.
The park consists of four themed lands similar to other Disneyland parks: Main Street, U.S.A., Fantasyland, Adventureland and Tomorrowland. There is as yet no Frontierland, although it may be included in future expansion projects. The theme park’s cast members use English and Chinese, including Cantonese and Mandarin dialects, to communicate verbally. Guide Maps are printed in both Traditional and Simplified characters, Japanese, and in English.
The capacity of the park is 34,000 visitors per day[1], and is the smallest Disneyland park. It has so far fallen short of meeting its targeted visitorship figures. The park attracted 5.2 million visitors in its first year, below its target of 5.6 million. Visitor numbers fell 20% in the second year to 4 million, which was below company targets,[2] inciting criticisms from local legislators.[3] However, the park attendance slightly increased by 8% in the third year, attracting a total of 4.5 million visitors in 2007-2008 fiscal year. Since the opening of Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005, the theme park has attracted 15 million guests.
The resort currently has 310 acres (1.3 km2), with the actual park taking approximately 100 acres (0.4 km2).[4] With its small size cited often to explain its under-performance, the park has announced various plans for expansion. The classic Disney attraction, “it’s a small world”, opened on 28 April 2008.
It was announced that the park will receive three additional themed lands for its expansion: Grizzly Trail, Mystic Point and Toy Story Land, which are all located outside the Disneyland Railroad track, south to the current Adventureland. After the opening of the three new lands, the park is expected to handle 7.92 million to 8.92 million visitors in 2014. Eventually, the park capacity will increase to handle up to 10 million visitors annually over a 15 year expansion period.[5]
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A Chicken in Every Pot: Finding New Uses for Feathers
This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish
Chicken feathers are useful, and not just to a chicken. Some go into pillows, coats and other products. But countless chicken feathers go to waste. In the United States, billions of chickens are produced yearly. Most of their feathers are thrown away. But instead of being buried in landfills, some feathers could find a future in plastics. Scientists in the Washington area have been working with keratin, the main substance in poultry feathers. One of the products they have developed is a flowerpot. It may look like other flowerpots. But the container breaks down in the earth within one to five years. And as it breaks down, it naturally releases nitrogen into the soil. The flowerpots are made by reducing chicken feathers to a powder. Then the powder is formed into pellets and shaped into pots. The environmentally friendly flowerpot is the work of two researchers. Walter Schmidt is with the Agricultural Research Service, part of the United States Agriculture Department. Masud Huda is with the Horticultural Research Institute, a private organization.The institute’s research director, Mark Teffeau, says the flowerpot works well for vegetables and small flowering plants like geraniums and impatiens. Walter Schmidt has been working to find uses for chicken feathers since the nineteen nineties. Progress in two thousand two showed that plastic made from feathers could be formed like other plastics. He says feathers are much stronger and last longer than another plant material, cellulose. He says feathers are about eight times as strong as cellulose.He points out that traditional flowerpots made from petroleum-based plastics can last much longer. But he wonders if there is really a need. He says most flowerpots are never re-used.He says: “Why would you want a plastic that you use for a year to last for two hundred years? It makes no sense. You want to match the product with the use.”Walter Schmidt and Masud Huda are now adding another chicken product to their flowerpots — chicken waste. The waste will add more nutrients to the soil as the pot breaks down. The scientists say they hope their flowerpot will be on the market in a year or two. And that’s the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. You can find transcripts, MP3s, podcasts and archives of our reports at voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 01June2010)
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???????? (??????) (??????) Associate of Business
This video highlights the features of the Associate of Business Administration (Hospitality Management) programme offered at the Community College of City University (CCCU). It is a unique programme developing
students’ knowledge in business studies and hospitality services, the competencies for taking up frontline managerial responsibility, and the intellectual capacity for higher level education. CCCU is well recognized as a premier College in Hong Kong and offers a wide range of self-financing Associate Degree programmes, a Pre-Associate Degree and other educational courses. In addition to the specialized knowledge and skills of a core
subject area, all Associate Degree programmes at CCCU incorporate general education and generic skills components essential for employment, further study and personal development.
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CEC Online May 2010 – Dining Etiquette in Asia
This spring, CEC held two “Doing Business in Asia” seminars. For our CEC Online videocast in May, we have put together the highlights of dining etiquette in Asia. Members have access to German-English-Chinese vocabulary cards (with MP3 links for pronunciation!), iPod Notes on the Dos and Dont´s of small talk in Asia, as well as an activity linked to our videocast for three different levels. Check out the full video at www.creative-english.at, Members Link.
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Dinner Fiesta The Empress Hotel Chiang Mai Thailand HiDef Video Stereo Sound
Reunion of the Blocks and Krokos’ families at The Empress Hotel in Chiang Mai Thailand on Sunday 10th August 2008. Good time, nice Thai music, dinner with great western and Asian dishes, relaxation, fun, playtime and talk with friends and kids.
FIESTA a festival or an event, usually and ordinarily staged by a local community which centers on some unique aspect of that community. A feast and a festival are historically interchangeable. However, the term “feast” has also entered common secular parlance as a synonym for any large or elaborate meal.
THE EMPRESS HOTEL is located in downtown area on Chiang Mai’s fast growing commercial streets and only 10 minutes walk to the city’s famous Night Bazaar and main shopping area, 15 minutes drive from the Chiang Mai International Airport and Railway Station. Facilities include airport transfer, banquet & conference areas, baby sitting service, business center, doctor, laundry and dry cleaning, money exchange, safety deposit boxes, swimming pool, sauna and health centre, shopping arcade and 24 hours room service. All hotel 375 rooms & suites are superbly assigned and equipped with first-class amenities including marble bathroom, private bar, IDD telephone, TV with 4 channels of 24-hour international satellite programs, radio, climate control & lighting at the bedside control panel. Restaurants and Lounges: La Brasserie (Capacity: 90) is the best known restaurant in town for it’s grilled and roasted meats and fine wines, Panda Palace (Capacity: 160) is famous for Cantonese delicacies and a variety of Dim Sum dishes prepared by Hong Kong Chef. Private rooms are available. Chao Nang Coffee Shop (Capacity: 188) the round-the-clock coffee shop with a cool and friendly atmosphere serving Thai, Chinese, and Western dishes from snacks to full course dinner. Buffer Lunch and private rooms are also available. Garden Lounge (Capacity: 75) it’s just the right spot to create an intimate atmosphere with expertly mixed drinks and live entertainment. Poolside Bar is serving refreshments and snacks with an outdoor swimming pool. It’s located on the 3rd floor adjacent to the Fitness Center and Sauna room.
VIDEO: HiDef video with a stereo sound. It is a superior quality footage originally recorded in HD high definition NTSC widescreen format 1080i movie in the size of 1920X1080 pixels with Sony HDR-SR7E digital video camcorder using latest AVCHD compression technology. The original video contains Dolby Digital 5.1ch surround sound. Before uploading this video to YouTube I reduced its size to 1280X720 pixels using Free Video Converter v. 1.0 provided by http://www.koyotesoft.com/ with the following setup: MPEG2 codec, 16:9 aspect ratio, 29.97 fps and 5,760 bitrate. Kindly append &fmt=18 to the end of the URL and enjoy HiDef video with a stereo sound ???????? ?????? ??????? sasinan sunisa kleebrang
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Hong Kong Business Leaders: Wine Specialist Gregory de’Eb
Gregory de’Eb set up his Crown Wine Cellars business in anticipation of Hong Kong abolishing its wine duty. The business has grown fourfold and he says Hong Kong will be the world leader in wine storage and distribution. Mr de’Eb was a speaker at the Hong Kong Forum 2009.
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Panda Hotel, Hong Kong by Asiatravel.com
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Friendly, Warm, Caring. Just a few of the qualities of a panda. At the Panda Hotel, we embrace these qualities. For business and leisure, Everytime. Anytime.
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Hong Kong Business Leaders: Fashion, Supermarket Proprietor Anthony Keung
Brand development is Anthony Keung’s guiding principle: the Fenix Group he founded in Hong Kong is making an international name globally, while his City Super megastore chain is opening on the Mainland after developing in the territory. Mr Keung spoke at the Hong Kong Forum 2009.
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Hong Kong Business Leaders: Fashion, Supermarket Proprietor Anthony Keung
Brand development is Anthony Keung’s guiding principle: the Fenix Group he founded in Hong Kong is making an international name globally, while his City Super megastore chain is opening on the Mainland after developing in the territory. Mr Keung spoke at the Hong Kong Forum 2009.
Duration : 0:4:31