Isaac French - 10 Minutes News for Hoteliers - Page 5

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Small Gestures, Big Memories

📷 In this personal reflection, Isaac emphasizes the importance of going beyond basic accommodation to create memorable, personalized experiences based on genuine connections. Highlighting the essence of hospitality, he draws from stories that have impacted his memory and acknowledges those who inspire through their generosity and meticulous attention to detail. Isaac's message is clear: strive to deliver thoughtfulness and care in interactions with others, whether they are strangers or friends.

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World’s Best Treehouses (Part 2)

🌳 Designed by Kristian Talvitie and Polestar, KOJA is a sustainable treehouse in Fiskars, Finland. Featuring panoramic windows for a seamless nature experience, it blends futuristic design with ancient woodland, aiming for minimal environmental impact.

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World’s Best Treehouses

🌳 La Donaira in Andalusia, Spain—a boutique eco-retreat set on a 1,700-acre biodynamic farm with orchards, vineyards, oaks, and olive groves—offers guests rustic-luxury suites, Andalusian horse riding, and farm-fresh organic meals. This curated collection of favorite treehouses and tree-inspired stays ranges from traditional to innovative and domestic to wild, based on personal passion and extensive collecting.

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The Wisdom of Trees

🍎 Isaac French's orchard project, set to bear fruit in Year 3, is both a fulfilling endeavor and a long-term investment, with trees producing for 20-60 years. Beyond harvesting fruit for cider, dried fruit, jams, and jellies, plans include hosting small weddings and seasonal events. The orchard offers intangible benefits such as meditation and gatherings. Further experiences with the orchard are teased for readers.

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Airport Bathrooms to Mexican Cantinas…

🎧 In Mexico, unexpected harmonies were found in unlikely places: the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, usually a symbol of ugliness, and a restroom where a janitor cared deeply for his work. Despite the negative expectations, a birthday song and a janitor's smile created warmth. Later, arriving at a grungy parking lot in a third-world city, the author's experience was transformed by warm mariachi music inside a 120-year-old log cabin restaurant, where the owner's hospitality shone.

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World’s Most Terrifying Hotel?

🏕 Nardo and Luis, highline enthusiasts, launched OVO Patagonia after a three-year effort involving architects, engineers, and mountain experts. Four 200-square-foot pods, constructed in Buenos Aires, were transported 1,400 miles to their cliffside location. The installation included a three-stage elevator system for transferring the pods, capable of operating in 10ºF temperatures and 70 mph winds. The pods' safety system boasts two tensile structures with 9 anchor points each, tested to 35 tons, ensuring a 126× safety margin.

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Why I Planted 200 Fruit Trees

🌳 The Nook philosophy emphasizes creating spaces that inspire creation, integrating nature as a fundamental element. The article advocates for planting fruit trees, suggesting an investment of $30 per sapling, highlighting the value in the experience of nurturing, the beauty of seasonal growth, and the joy of harvesting the fruit.

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The Art of Finding Hidden Treasures

🏬 A barn transformed into one of the country's most stunning wedding venues and a near-collapse gristmill in rural Maine restored to become a world-renowned farm-to-table restaurant with 60,000 annual reservation attempts for 1,500 seats. These examples showcase the potential of repurposing historic or overlooked sites into extraordinary, sought-after destinations. The message: Act now, seek out hidden gems, and create beauty through craft and creativity.

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A Carpenter’s $1M Secret

🚨 Chris's wife, while pregnant, survived a car accident caused by a drunk driver, leading to a settlement that allowed them to buy 5 acres of land in upstate New York, near Remsen, for $28,000. Using the land, Chris built an A-frame cabin over three years, handling all the construction himself to minimize expenses, aiming to create a unique stay that could generate passive income. He navigated rural permitting with relative ease, benefiting from a straightforward process and the value of personal relationships with local officials.

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Hospitality is the Ultimate Craft

🛠 Craft in hospitality emphasizes care, transforming ordinary experiences into extraordinary ones by not scaling but focusing on thoughtful details. It reshapes both guest and host, fostering human connections and spreading care. Hospitality, seen as a craft, creates impactful stories in guests' lives. The challenge posed is to infuse more care into crafted experiences, elevating details to resonate on a deep, human level. —Isaac.

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