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Hungry Americans
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Even bad publicity is publicity – goes the proverb. KFC’s Double Down sandwich is simply called ‘heart attack’ by some – instead of a bun it is made with two...
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Improving toilet room hygiene
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The quality level of toilets in hotels and restaurants often falls below the standard guests expect. Erika Sárközi, a junior product and market manager with SCA Hygiene Products Kft. agrees...
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Be happy if they complain!
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
The average Hungarian guest is not hard to please, very often they would tolerate anything even if their problem could be solved easily. Who is the loser in cases like...
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Data speak
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Three years ago the marketing department of the University of Mississippi surveyed customers’ level of satisfaction with bars and restaurants. Nearly 47 percent of guest said they never complained about...
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A real commonplaces
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
A prerequisite of managing complaints is paying attention to customer feedback. The restaurant’s manager should actively participate in managing guests’ complaints and in the follow-up process. Feedback is not Twitter...
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Drinks and a hot summer
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
For us it might see strange that in American or Russian pubs beer is often served in mugs. But what is completely new overseas as well is serving cocktails in...
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Five-star mobile bar
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Fifth Floor, a hotel’s restaurant and bar in San Francisco introduced its mobile bar service in April. A bartender rolls as ‘50s-style drinks trolley to the table of guests and...
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Keleti falls
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
One of the last great Czech classics on the Hungarian market, Becherovka gave in to the current trend: it is being flavoured. Becherovka Lemond now boats the fresh flavours of...
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We give you everything we have!
Date: 2010-05-20 08:00:00
Designing and operating bathrooms for bars and restaurants gives great creative freedom to owners and designers alike. Donna Dooher, the owner of Mildred’s Temple Kitchen restaurant in Toronto ran a...
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Turkey is the most popular tourist destination among the Hungarians
Date: 2010-05-20 00:01:10
The Start Travel Agency compiles the top resorts list of the most popular summer tourist destinations every year, on the basis of the pre-booked trips. Turkey became the the most...
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Cafeteria: What remained tax free?
Date: 2010-05-20 00:00:50
From the cafeteria benefits, only a few remained fully tax free this year, many popular forms are under 25 percent personal income taxation from January. The local travel ticket allocation,...
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The Hungarian hotels to lobby for discount VAT
Date: 2010-05-17 00:06:01
Although the number of guest nights of the Hungarian hotels increased, in several factors they are in a more difficult position now, than at the end of last year, during...
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Budapest Tourism increases
Date: 2010-05-14 00:01:28
The commercial accommodations of Budapest received 415 thousand guests in the first three months of 2010, 7.6 percent more than the in same period of last year and 3.6 percent...
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Tourism cooperation between Berlin and Budapest
Date: 2010-05-12 00:01:25
In tourism marketing Berlin and Budapest will cooperate at some overseas markets in the future. The Chief Executives of the two cities’ tourism marketing organizations, Burkhard Kieker of the Berlin...
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Wine Street and Hungarian wine regions in Budafok
Date: 2010-05-11 00:01:15
Building on the wine culture and wine tradition of Budafok, tourism developments have begun in the 22nd district of Budapest, from a close to 300 million HUF EU support. In...
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Flourishing beaches, and solid price increases at the lake Balaton
Date: 2010-05-11 00:00:50
This year's season started with solid price increases or with the same entry fees and with several significant developments – said Győrffy Árpád, editor of balatontipp.hu to MTI. According to...
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The popular German Lifestyle magazine, promotes Budapest
Date: 2010-05-10 00:01:00
The popular German magazine, that has 1 million readers, promotes Budapest beside Paris and Rome in its April issue; called “Neues für die Frau”. Beside the romantic Paris and Rome,...
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The first Hungarian Starbucks café opens in Westend
Date: 2010-05-07 00:01:45
Now it is sure: After repeated postponement a Starbucks café will open in Hungary. The American chain will open its first unit in the Budapest Westend City Center shopping mall....
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This year will be important in rural tourism
Date: 2010-05-07 00:01:20
This year may be important in rural hospitality. It turns out, how many people will meet the new conditions set by the law – said Kövér István, the president of...
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Neither fast nor slow, normal
Date: 2010-05-07 00:00:20
This is the motto of the recently launched Mars shop, which is a refreshing dash of color in the palette of the Budapest food services, with its healthy and imaginative...
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Billion HUF developments in Somogy county baths
Date: 2010-05-06 00:01:20
Three Somogy county baths – the baths of Igal, Nagyatád and Nagybajom – can become more competitive, from a total of more than one billion HUF. Half billion development will...
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Ten percent fewer guest nights in Romania
Date: 2010-05-06 00:00:10
In the first quarter of 2010, the number of guest nights spent in commercial accommodations decreased by ten percent in Romania – reported the Romanian Statistical Office. According to the...
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The hotels of Pécs expect high season
Date: 2010-05-05 00:01:00
Although some of the hotel constructions connected to the 2010 Cultural Capital programs were not realized in Pécs, the existing and the newly-opened hotels are expecting an excellent season. The...
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Cafeteria – a surprising result of a survey
Date: 2010-05-04 00:00:50
The www.cafeteriatrend.hu site and its professional partners surveyed employers, employees, service providers over the regulations of cafeteria in April 2010. The result was surprising: the 25 percent tax would not...
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Customers invade the new Nordsee
Date: 2010-05-04 00:00:30
An unexpected interest and customers invade occured at the Nordsee restaurant in the Váci street, on the weekend. Surprisingly, the Budapest residents invaded the Nordsee restaurant for delicacies such as...
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The season at the Lake Balaton starts earlier
Date: 2010-05-03 00:01:02
The tourism entrepreneurs and professionals of the Lake Balaton would be satisfied, if the datas of 2008 would be repeated this year. Last year, the Hungarians spent 2.5 million domestic...
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The hotel giants are expanding
Date: 2010-05-03 00:00:20
The world's three biggest hotel companies, the Four Seasons Hotels, the Starwood Hotels & ResortsWorldwide, and the Marriott would expand in Europe – reports Bloomberg. According to Bloomberg; the Four...
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Open Cellar Days again
Date: 2010-04-29 00:01:24
This year, in the Year of Festivals, the Association of Open Cellars, the Bacchus Arts Studio, the Hungarian National Tourist Office and the Hungarian wine regions wineries are joining forces...
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The campaign for Pécs conntinues in Austria
Date: 2010-04-29 00:01:02
According to the survey of the Austrian Gallup institute; the 4 percent of Austrians traveling abroad this year, planning to visit Pécs. The Hungarian Tourism Zrt., having an integrated campaign...
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