HEY LINKEDIN! It’s me again!! 🙋♂️ (<- Dan)
Freed from the constraints of my real work I am BACK to smash together a selection of words, punctuation marks and emojis to help you procrastinate and waste a little time on #LinkedIn!! 😉
I’d like to kick things off with a #confession…
So, I work for Penta right, which means I work in the #hotelindustry. ✔
Now, before working at #Penta, I had zero work experience within the hotel industry. BEFORE YOU ASK, yes, I guess they must have been desperate. 😁 Also, my glasses and accent make people think I’m more intelligent than I actually am. 🤓 In fact, my lenses are pretty weak, and my real accent makes me sound like a farmer, so to anyone involved in hiring me – sorry, but you got HUSTLED. 🤷♂️
Anyway, I’m getting off track and that’s not even the confession…
Coming from a career background of REDACTED (definitely didn’t put that in there in a lame attempt to seem mysterious) I rather shamefully know quite little about the #hotel and hospitality industry (𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣). SO, I thought, why not use this month’s column as an opportunity to do some #LEARNING. 🤗
INTERNET FRIENDS, I present to you:
👉 𝘼 𝘽𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙤𝙩𝙚𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙮 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙚…
𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗖𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗠𝗘𝗥: You shouldn’t expect to actually learn something here, I’ve already wasted over half of my permitted character count (plus I already told you about the glasses and accent). ❌
Let’s go back, way back. 🔙 In the beginning there were campfires and caves. That’s right, the first #hotelier was almost certainly someone with a big fire or a big cave, or at least someone generous with a fire or a cave, maybe it was small, I don’t know, I wasn’t there. 😊
Next up we have the ancient civilisations. This is where we see stuff like #Bathhouses begin to pop up. In fact, what is recognised as the oldest hotel in the world is from 705 A.D, that’s 1319 years ago!! 😲 Koshu Nishiyama Hot Spring, Keiunkan is not too far from Mt Fuji in #Japan and incredibly it was run by 52 generations of the same family until fairly recently, which I think is what that TV show Succession that everyone went crazy for is about ❓
Somewhere around the 15th Century, laws in #France and #England changed and Inn Keepers started having to keep a register of their #guests, pulling us sort of a bit more in the direction of what we know today. 📑
After that basically loads of stuff happened, like time moved on, things got developed and word counts were invented. 😅 Really, you could even argue that the next most significant landmark is that #Penta was formed in 1971, because that means that I got a job, which means that I have money to pay rent and buy crisps (you didn’t really think we’d get through a whole column without me bringing them up did you??). 😎
#dansview #pentahotels #pentalovesyou #hospitality #teamspirit
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