A movement toward greater use of telemedicine is widening the spectrum of care doctors can provide from afar and enabling more outsourcing of services overseas.
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Miami Herald - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decided to pull his advertising from South Carolina and Florida, in a sign of trouble for a campaign that badly needs a win. Romney had been hoping to challenge John McCain and Mike Huckabee in South Story Continues Here
HONOLULU, Jan. 29 — Melanie House looked at her husband. John was looking at their son. And then she saw him wipe his eyes.
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Top 10 Beaches in Hawaii
We’ve taken a slightly different approach to our list of the best beaches in Hawaii. We include at least one beach from each of the six major islands. Our list…
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How’s your weather? Strange? Wild kona winds? Lots of rain and wind? Some people now want to cut down everything. Big trees are scary, right? Story Continues Here…
The 4 indicates admission is $5 or less, or free. Full-price admission is listed; the * denotes discounts (or free) for students, seniors, military, members, children and/or advance purchase. Call venue for details.
San Francisco Gate - American Healthcare Institute, Nurse Management Conference, Tuesday through Thursday, Grand Hyatt. UC San Francisco, Office of Continuing Medical Education, Medical Management of AIDS/Review HIV Management, Tuesday through Saturday, Fairmont Hotel.
How to Beat Yield Management of Hotel Rooms>>
The LA Times has a very interesting article on getting the best price on hotel rooms. The use of yield management by the hotel companies means that rooms can be sold for different rates depending on occupancy and other factors.
“The core concept of yield management is to provide the right service to the right customer at the right time for the right price,” the report says.
It’s all about timing.
A big problem, industry experts say, is that room demand waxes and wanes by day of the week, time of year, special events and other situations that hoteliers can’t control. Yet every night, a Hilton or Sheraton has the same 100 rooms to fill.
Ensuring that rooms get booked at the maximum price possible, without getting stuck with vacancies at 5 p.m., is a delicate high-wire act.
Enter yield management, which aims to “gain control of consumer demand by using time- and price-related strategic levers,” the report says.
Yes, they’re manipulating you.
By lowering the rate for stays during slack times, hotels induce penny-pinching vacationers to book then, filling rooms that otherwise would have gone vacant. By saving some rooms for last-minute bookers, often business people who have no choice, they can demand higher prices for the now-scarce rooms.