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🎃 Pumpkin Spice, a blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and sometimes allspice, epitomizes autumn with its warm, fragrant embrace. Originally associated with North American autumn dishes like pumpkin pie, it's now popular in drinks (like the famed Pumpkin Spice Latte), pastries, desserts, yogurts, and cereals. A simple DIY mix involves 3 tbsp cinnamon, 2 tsp ginger and nutmeg, 1½ tsp cloves, and 1 tsp allspice. Store the homemade blend in an airtight container in a cool, dry place. Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte, over 20 years old, combines espresso, pumpkin puree, milk, sugar, and Pumpkin Spice. Keep your Pumpkin Spice fresh by storing it away from light, air, and moisture, using it within 6-12 months, and ensuring it's pure and additive-free.

🎭 Le PAL, a theme park in Allier, France, welcomed 730,000 visitors in 2024, marking its second-best season since opening in 1973. This was a slight 3.2% decrease compared to 2023's 754,000 visitors, attributed to less favorable weather. However, revenue increased by 1.5%, boosted by higher average spending per visitor, driven by a diverse food offering and the new Le Glouton snack and the Comptoir de l'Ours shop. The Lodges du PAL and Le Savana RESERVE maintained popularity, especially among French and Swiss guests, with full occupancy during weekends and school holidays, totaling 34,200 overnight stays. The park retains its status within the top 6 French leisure parks and as the leading leisure site in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region.

🏕 Hotel Belmar in Costa Rica, carbon-neutral, unveiled elegant room renovations completed this summer. Local designers from NAAS Interior Culture led the redesign, balancing contemporary design with natural immersion. Almost all of the ecolodge's 26 rooms feature nature-inspired materials like wood, soft color palettes, and Mid Century Modern furniture for a modern yet cozy atmosphere.

🤔 Chef étoilé Matan Zaken (Le Nhome) accusé de management toxique par ex-collaboratrices, sans indication de date. Comparaison avec la gastronomie : plus de 600 chefs étoilés parmi 11 000 cuisiniers en France, versus 700 joueurs en Ligue 1 parmi 2,3 millions de licenciés.

💾 Shiji, a global hospitality technology leader, enhanced its enterprise platform by introducing an improved unique guest profile feature designed to address the industry issue of duplicate profiles and centralize customer information across systems, properties, and regions. The update enables a unified view for personalized service, with secure data management and AI-driven duplicate profile handling. Kevin King, CEO of Shiji International, emphasizes the importance of this cornerstone feature for customer information integration across PMS, POS, dining, and activities.

🍴 To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Michelin-starred Gordon Ramsay restaurant at the Trianon and the 15 years of the Waldorf Astoria brand in France, the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Versailles - Trianon Palace unveils signature creations by chefs Gordon Ramsay, Gabriele Ravasio, and Eddie Benghanem. Among these are a dish featuring Breton lobster with cherry tomatoes, fresh basil, and 100-year aged Giusti balsamic vinegar, and a dessert that reimagines the berlingot candy with fig, reflecting a blend of tradition and culinary innovation.

📢 Civitatis, a global platform for activities, guided tours, and excursions in French, has surpassed 30,000 partner travel agencies worldwide. This milestone was reached as Civitatis focuses on expansion, especially in Latin America due to its tourism and digitalization potential. The company's B2B growth has been exponential, jumping from nearly 23,000 collaborators in December 2023 to over 30,000 currently, highlighting the strategic importance of travel agencies to Civitatis' expansion model.

🐓 On September 25, L214 protested at La Boucherie restaurant in Angers at 12 pm, questioning the lack of transparency regarding their commitment to end the worst farming practices for chickens by 2026. This commitment, known as the European Chicken Commitment (ECC), was to be evidenced through published progress reports. The demonstration then moved to the company's headquarters in Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou. Protesters placed a doormat reading, "La Boucherie wipes its feet on its commitment," and distributed flyers.

🎂 Le Peninsula Paris célèbre son dixième anniversaire avec des créations festives de la Cheffe Anne Coruble, comprenant une bûche de Noël "Hespéridée" et une réinvention de l'Heure du Thé. La bûche s'inspire des "Dancing Leaves" de la cristallerie tchèque Lasvit, reflétant 160 ans d'élégance de l'établissement et son inauguration en 2014. Elle allie vanille givrée de Bretagne, zeste de citron jaune, biscuit à l'huile de chanvre et d'olive, pulpe de citron, pâte de citron brûlé et bergamote, cheesecake au lait cru, mousse au lait ribot et citron d'Amalfi confit.

🏖️ Grandvalira Resorts in Andorra surpassed 173,800 visitors by September 15 during the summer season, showing a slight increase from the previous year despite sporadic rain affecting attendance. The Tristaina Solar Viewpoint emerged as a standout attraction with 60,000 visitors. Notably, new afternoon passes and extended hours at Mon(t) Magic Family Park and Mountain Park were well-received. The Tristaina viewpoint will remain open until November 3, accessible by the Creussans chairlift and weekend gondola.