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Michelin-starred Dining in…Orlando?

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And ever since, foodies have indeed traveled great distances in planes, trains and automobiles to sample the creations designated by Michelin as the best. The last guide covered 2008-2009. Currently, countrywide guides are published in Europe in nine editions. And with so many celebrity-chef outposts, deservedly so.

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CMP Spotlight: Get to Know Beth Surmont, CMP Fellow

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She has been a CMP since 2008, and was a member of the inaugural class of CMP Fellows in 2022. It was not only a way to ensure I had the formal training, but it was recognition that I knew what I was doing,” she says. I truly believe that bringing together the right people, in the right ways, can prepare us for a brighter future.”

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Will Airline Pilot Shortage Cripple Second-Tier Markets?

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11, 2001, and during the 2008 financial crisis, the aviation industry suffered and airlines merged. More aspiring pilots today must pay for their own flight training, which can cost in the six figures. More aspiring pilots today must pay for their own flight training, which can cost in the six figures.

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4 Lessons Learned from The Hospitality Show

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Cinnabon is a 99% franchisee company that stations most of its business in malls and airports, and during the Great Recession of 2008, when traffic slowed to most public spaces, a couple of activities that almost immediately come to a halt are shopping and traveling. Cinnabon suffered greatly as a result.

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Hospitality Industry Honors Black History Month

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when the Harvard-trained historian Carter G. In 2022, ABHM opened in its new location in Milwaukee’s Bronzeville Neighborhood after shuttering its former location in 2008 due to the financial crisis that struck the U.S. Black History Month took root in 1915, 50 years after the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.

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Business Lessons from the Greatest Comeback in NFL History

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But what business leaders can learn from this amazing comeback is less about the messages delivered during that 12-minute halftime talk and more about what O’Connell and his staff did over the five months between the start of training camp in July to that painful walk to the locker room at halftime on December 17.

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PCMA to Planners: Be a Better Performer, and a Better Manager

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After finishing second in the 200-meter dash at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Felix was confident that she would win gold in 2008. But even with four more years of hard training, she once again finished second to her rival, Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica.

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