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Stormy Life Alan Stutts writes:
Hotels and other lodging accommodations serve fewer people each day: 60% of the nation’s 4.3 million quest rooms were slept in during 2002.(American Hotel and Lodging Association) Revenues and profits for lodging reached an history high in 2000, but the economic slowdown that followed, the outbreak of Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, the unsettled political climate after September 11, 2001, and war in Iraq in 2003 reduced national and international travel and fewer people needed a room for the night. “The lodging industry is still recovering following 10 years of record-breaking performance,” notes the American Hotel and Lodging Association’s 2003 Lodging Industry profile. (American Hotel and Lodging Association 2003)
Alan Stutts also explains that when the hospitality industry is combined with the travel and tourism industry, you have the country’s largest export industry and its third largest retail industry. (American Hotel and Lodging Association)
Who cooks all those meals and makes all those beds?
The National Restaurant Association pegs hospitality as the nation’s largest employer after the government, with over 870,000 food service establishments employing 1.2 million people in 2004. (National Restaurant Association 2004) “The restaurant industry remains the cornerstone of the nation’s economy, career-and-employment opportunities, and local communities,” says Stephen C. Anderson, President and Chief Executive Office of the National Restaurant Association.
According to the United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, sixteen percent of the U.S. workforce is employed in hospitality, doing everything from parking guest’s cars to sitting in the executive offices of large, international conglomerates. In 2003, one in four US adults reported to the National Restaurant Association that they had worked at a food service business at some time in their life.
Article Written by Alan Stutts
Posted by Melvin on Mar 19, 2010 in
Stormy Life Do you require the ideas about space saving in the apartment? Pick out the attractive futons or a sofa bed and get other space saving furniture
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Posted by Melvin on Mar 19, 2010 in
Stormy Life One of the most hated and misunderstood pest species known to civilisation is the bed bug (Cimex lectularius). How many of us fell asleep to sleep at night as young ones with the parting rhyme of our parents in our ears “sleep tight and don’t let the bed bugs bite”?
Bed Bugs may have started to dine on man at around the time when we moved into caves, the bat bugs Cimex pilosellus and C pipistrella mostly feed on bats and it is likely that bat feeding species of bed bus evolved to feed on human blood when our forebears started sleeping} in bat infested caves.
Up to the invention of DDT in the early 20th century bed bugs were commonplace guests in most low quality homes.
The later part of the 20th century saw pest control companies having very few bed bug problems indeed, their presence being generally restricted to low quality holiday camps and student accomadation etc.
Most people mistake dust mites, which aren’t visible to the unaided eye, with bed bugs which most certainly.
Adult bedbugs are reddish brown, about a quarter of an inch in size and swollen after dining on human blood.
Bed bugs regularly feed on our blood every week or so, appearing in the early hours of the morning and locating their target by sniffing the exhaled CO2 from human breath and when close in on their target, they sense body body heat.
In the absence of a suitable human meal to feed on they can stay in a period of dormancy for periods of up to a year or more.
Bed Bug Bites
Often the first sign of a bed bug presence are spots of blood on bedding and on the edges of mattresses and many people can react badly to bed bug bites.
The early part of this century has seen bed bug numbers expoding all over the planet, the easy availability of world travel and economic migration have both been argued as reasons for the resurgence.
What is certain is that that are now making a real fightback not only in slum quality housing but top class hotels, schools and even hospitals.
One London borough reported a doubling of bed bug problems every year from 1995 to 2001.
|One night stay in an infested bed is all it requires, they hitch a ride in your suitcases or bags. Pest control companies are also now reporting cases of transport related bed bug infestations on tubes and buses so a simple journey to work on an infested tube or train can be all it takes to spread these bugs to your own home.
They are an expensive pest to deal with as contrary to popular notion they do not just live in beds. They hide in any nook and cranny suitably close to a sleeping human being, beds, electrical sockets, televisions, bed side telephones etc and dealing with them is both difficult and time consuming. They have even been revealed found living under the toe-nails of infirm people and in the creases of flesh on flabby people.
They are not a pest that can be successfully tackled by an amateur and a pest control professional will almost certainly be required.
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