{"id":14957,"date":"2020-04-28T12:43:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T10:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.potidea-palace.com\/?p=14957"},"modified":"2020-04-28T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T11:31:01","slug":"enrapturing-travel-stories-around-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.potidea-palace.com\/bg\/uncategorized\/enrapturing-travel-stories-around-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Enrapturing travel stories around the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In this article, we have rounded up the most fascinating travel experiences<\/a> and stories around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sensory wine\nexperience<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
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Hint: It\u2019s free!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Keeping your bellies happy\nis the top priority for us and it is not coincidental that we try to leverage\nthe local flavors. Part of this consistent effort is the Wine Degustation sessions being held\nevery evening at Cava Idea<\/a>, the resident wine cellar. Our\nworld-class cava houses the richness of the Greek vineyards: the grape\nvarieties of Macedonia, Thrace, Central Greece, Peloponnese, Crete, and the\nGreek islands. Our expert guides will be very glad to navigate you through the\nGreek viticulture and reveal the secrets and dimensions of wine to you. The\nmain corpus of the discussion will be stipulated on the tannin, acidity,\nsweetness, reduction, oxidation, aging and all the other basic notions that\nappertain to wine-making and tasting. Do not omit to try Sauvignon\nBlanc (white grape), Grenache Rouge (red grape), Xinomavro (red grape), and\nRoditis (white grape). <\/em>Best of all, the wine tasting sessions are for\nfree. Besides, (Travel) \u201cHappiness like a<\/em> fine wine<\/em> should\nbe savored sip by sip.\u201d \u2013 L. Feuerbach-, and this is something we know inside\nout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The world\u2019s most expensive dessert <\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The world\u2019s most expensive dessert<\/a> is served at The Fortress Resort & Spain\u00a0Sri Lanka.<\/em> The desert, named \u201cThe Fortress Stilt Fisherman Indulgence\u201d, is priced at $14,500. Ornamented with an 80-carat aquamarine precious stone and a sophisticated carving, made of chocolate and representing an old-time regional fishing technique with a fisherman clinging to a stilt, the delicacy is composed of pomegranate, compote, mango, Champagne sabayon, Irish cream, and gold leaf Italian cassata.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The staff interviews at the Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Once at a Four Seasons hotel, the GM of the hotel interviewed a dishwasher at the last stage of the hiring process. A tactic that illustrates not only how important the dishwasher\u2019s job is but how important he is too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Southwest\nAirlines<\/strong>\u2019\nbeautiful story<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

A grandfather\u2019s wife made a\ndesperate call to Southwest\nAirlines<\/strong> to\norganize a last-minute flight ticket, describing a crisis circumstance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A grandfather urgently needed to fly\nfrom a corporate trip in Los Angeles to his daughter\u2019s home in Denver to live\nthe very last moments with a person he loved: his three-year-old grandson who\nwas in a coma after having been beaten to death by his mother\u2019s boyfriend. The\nlittle boy would be taken off life support at 9 p.m. that night, donating his\norgans to save over 25 lives. A big delay on the road and airport made the man\nalmost miss the flight scheduled at 11: 50. At 12:02, 12 minutes after the\nsupposed departure flight time, the pilot, having held the plane, welcomed the\ngrandfather to the waiting plane: \u201cAre you, Mark? We held the plane for you and we\u2019re so\nsorry about the loss of your grandson.\u201d<\/em> Mark, walking down the jetway with the\npilot, told him: \u201cI can\u2019t thank you enough for this\u201d to receive once more his\ngenerous response: \u201cThey\ncan\u2019t go anywhere without me, and I wasn\u2019t going anywhere without you. Now\nrelax. We\u2019ll get you there. And again, I\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite not deriving from the exact hospitality industry<\/a>, but from its cognate airline business, this heart-wrenching story is evincible of how companies opt for going above and beyond to personally respond to a valued customer with an experience that marks his life. The pilot of the story deviated from the rigorously strict airline guidelines that no flight should be held for any reason and designed an experiential memory that would emotionally engage the client in an inherently personal way forever. In this way, the pilot and Southwest airlines created uniquely positive feelings that harmonize the customer perception and contemporaneously steer the brand reputation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blogger\u00a0Christopher Elliott<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0communicated and shared this story that\u00a0Nancy,<\/strong> Mark\u2019s wife sent him, to Southwest Airlines and published it on his blog with the awesomely articulated comment:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m speechless. Twelve minutes may not sound like a lot to you or me, but every second counts when you\u2019re an airline. Southwest can turn an entire plane around in about 20 minutes, so 12 minutes is half an eternity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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