Continuing from my last post, Sustainable hospitality in France, I now examine the different organizations promoting sustainibility practices in the hotel industry. Later, in the last part of this study on environmental practices, I will analyze the gap between consumers’ good intentions and actions, partly due to the complexity of labels out there… It is…
Summer is on its way, and Parisian “perchoirs” (rooftop bars and restaurants) are high on the travellers’ (and residents too!) list again, especially those offering outdoor facilities. Restaurant Café Georges at Centre Pompidou, offers great all round views of Paris with two different casual and elegant atmospheres. High quality products are on the menu,…
Last week I had the pleasure of participating, as a guest speaker, in the “Future of Sustainable Hospitality 2018” conference, organized by the Riga Hotel School in Latvia….
When hospitality education meets sustainable tourism… One thing I really find important in life is to be useful to others, which is, after all, the basis of any hospitality related activity, wouldn’t you say? At least, it’s the reason why I chose to work in this field many years ago, besides an insatiable urge to…
I celebrated my first year living in Russia yesterday, and although I would not yet consider writing this blog in Cyrillic – even though I have made enough progress since приятного аппетита! – , I would like to share a few facts about tourism in this country, which remains largely unknown despite its numerous treasures! For now,…
Good afternoon from a typical winter day in St Petersburg…. not too cold (-7 last time I checked) but the wind makes the temperature feel much lower. The day dawns around 10, pale skies with low grey clouds hang in there until dusk, just around 4pm… But she is still and ever so beautiful…. As…
It has been a while since I posted on Biyahi, as I was busy moving suitcases around -again ahahah!!- out of Paris, some of them to Finland and others to CDG airport bound to my new destination, Russia! If at that time you’d ask me the meaning of the title, I would have looked at you…
I was part of the opening team of a new resort in the Maldives, more precisely Vilamendhoo island… An island country in the Indian Ocean, the Maldives archipelago lies southwest of India and Sri Lanka. It is composed of twenty six atolls from Ihavandhippolhu Atoll to the Addu Atoll. Its capital is Malé, traditionally…
One of the -many- side benefits of working in hospitality is that you can spend your whole life travelling and discovering the world, and really get a close to full immersion to the environment you are in (one’s own culture, education are so deeply rooted that it is almost to impossible to “reset”, become “another”… …
This week, we travel back to the island of Borneo, to the tiny Kingdom of Brunei… for a Royal short story… The Empire Hotel is like a small city, opulent, luxurious, and designed around “clean” entertainment… bars, and even a night club can be found in the hotel, but there is not a drop of…
