Viability's Guy Wilkinson writes a monthly column for Hotelier Middle East Magazine. This article originally appeared in January 2011.
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This document discusses a company that produces and distributes absinthe in the United States. It provides background on absinthe's reputation among famous artists and writers. The document outlines absinthe's history, including its popularity in the 1800s, its ban in multiple countries in the early 1900s, and its legalization in the United States in 2007. It introduces the company's team and technology to produce authentic absinthe as the first American distiller since the ban was lifted.
El autobús cuenta con un sistema embebido que permite la conexión con la
plataforma central. Este sistema se compone de:
- Una pantalla táctil para el conductor que le permite gestionar la ruta,
paradas, usuarios, incidencias...
- Un lector de códigos QR para la lectura de los títulos de transporte de los
usuarios.
- Un sistema de geolocalización que permite conocer en todo momento la
posición del autobús.
- Un sistema de comunicaciones (GPRS/4G) que permite la
This short document advises thinking carefully before beginning a new endeavor but also cautions thinking twice before giving up on something already started. It suggests considering both the pros and cons of initiating a new project or task as well as persisting when challenges arise rather than abandoning efforts prematurely.
El documento describe los componentes y criterios de diseño de una línea de conducción de agua. Explica que una línea de conducción transporta el agua desde la fuente de abastecimiento hasta el sitio de distribución mediante tuberías y dispositivos de control. Describe los tipos de líneas de conducción (por gravedad, bombeo y mixta) y sus componentes clave como tuberías, válvulas, piezas especiales y estructuras complementarias. Finalmente, explica los criterios de diseño como la carga disponible, gasto de dise
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1) The document discusses the opportunity for technology to improve organizational efficiency and transition economies into a "smart and clean world."
2) It argues that aggregate efficiency has stalled at around 22% for 30 years due to limitations of the Second Industrial Revolution, but that digitizing transport, energy, and communication through technologies like blockchain can help manage resources and increase efficiency.
3) Technologies like precision agriculture, cloud computing, robotics, and autonomous vehicles may allow for "dematerialization" and do more with fewer physical resources through effects like reduced waste and need for transportation/logistics infrastructure.
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1. 20
COMMENT
Making the bid count
Viability director Guy Wilkinson reflects on Qatar’s successful FIFA World Cup bid and
provides his take on the accommodation targets and the huge effort needed to reach them
45,708 rooms in 2010, in addition
to 191 hotel residences with 19,822
hotel apartments, making a total of
559 properties with 65,530 letting
units. To take a comparable 12-year
period in the history of Dubai’s
hotel sector, the emirate had 10,956
hotel rooms in 135 hotels in 1991
(excluding hotel apartments). After
12 years, the total had increased to
25,571 rooms in 271 hotels (in 2003),
i.e., more than doubled. For Qatar
to achieve its stated accommodation
COLUMNIST
targets by 2022 in terms of rooms, it
would have to increase its existing
round of applause for Qa- hotel supply by nine times!
A tar! It really is an incredible
achievement for a nation
whose football team FIFA
currently ranks 114th in its World
Ranking and which has never even
Guy Wilkinson has done his maths; but have the Qatar World Cup bid chiefs done theirs?
FOR QATAR TO ACHIEVE ITS STATED
However, if we agree that 75% of
Qatar’s stated existing rooms supply
in fact comprises non-hotel accom-
modation, and that 6000 rooms of
the 90,000 future rooms will be float-
qualified to play in the World Cup, ACCOMMODATION TARGETS BY 2022 IN TERMS ing on water, then it is possible that
to now be hosting the world’s larg- perhaps less than 20,000 of those
est sporting event in 2022, beating
OF ROOMS, IT WOULD HAVE TO INCREASE ITS may in fact be planned hotel rooms,
no less a competitor than the USA EXISTING HOTEL SUPPLY BY NINE TIMES! which is, therefore, achievable.
for the right to do so, by 14 votes Even then, in construction terms,
to eight. a decade can go by in a flash. If you
According to the FIFA Bid consider that some of the prominent
Evaluation Report on Qatar’s vic- of compounds of above 2000 rooms thirds of the new rooms will be con- hotels planned to open in time for
torious tender (which by the way each. The latest hotel supply data tained in 17 big projects, 13 of which the 2006 Asian Games are still not
is up on the net for all to see), the from the Qatar Tourism Author- are to be completed “after 2016, but operational, you’ll see my point. The
Gulf nation has already contracted ity (QTA) states that there were 58 in any case before 2021”. news of the World Cup and the US
85,000 rooms in 240 hotels and other hotels in 2009 with 9049 rooms. Let’s think about that. We all $50 billion that Qatar will be spend-
types of accommodation (“above They claim that 28 new hotels will know that there are a lot of hotels ing on infrastructure to ensure the
all in the four-star category”), thus have opened by the end of 2010, so under construction in Doha, as event’s smooth running will surely
exceeding FIFA’s minimum World let’s round the numbers up to say, shown in the Hotelier listings, put an end to any lingering doubts
Cup requirement of 60,000 rooms. 85 hotels with 10,000 rooms. We including luminary projects such that private developers may have
According to reports, the total has can, therefore, assume that at least as a second Four Seasons and a had about their construction proj-
crept up to 90,000 rooms since the 30,000 or three quarters of the con- second InterContinental, a Hilton, ects there. Once again, the coun-
report was published. tracted existing rooms are in fact a St. Regis, a Mandarin Oriental, try’s construction resources will
Doha hoteliers involved in the bid contained within residential, staff the new Qatar Convention Centre be strained to breaking point and
confirm they signed a contract with or other types of accommodation tower hotel and a bunch of others. projects will risk becoming delayed.
the Qatar government, pledging blocks — not in fact, hotels. But can there really be 140 projects Let’s hope there’s someone at the
rooms for the event, as they did for The Qatar bid also promises 140 in 12 years? (And which are these helm with a whip to crack, rolling
the Asian Games in 2006. Presum- new hotels (and by the same logic, big projects? They must be huge!) their sleeves up as we speak! HME
ably the same commitment has been presumably also other types of tran-
required from developers of future sient accommodation) with 55,000 YOU DO THE MATHS
projects too. new rooms, including one or more I know that comparison with Dubai
Of the original 85,000 contracted cruise ships with 6000 rooms to be is anathema to fans of Qatar, but
rooms, says the report, 40,000 are moored at the New Doha Port in Al at least in terms of numbers, it may
Guy Wilkinson is a director of Viability, a
already available within more than Wakrah, which is set to open in 2014 throw light on the practicability
hospitality and property consulting firm in Dubai.
100 existing “hotels, villages and with dedicated cruise ship berths. of this claim. To put things in per- For more information, e-mail: guy@viability.ae
compounds”, including a number The bid report states that two spective, Dubai had 368 hotels with
January 2011 • Hotelier Middle East www.hoteliermiddleeast.com