Spanish hotels to cash in on siestas - by the hour
Long hailed as the country's greatest contribution to civili- sation, the siesta - "Spain's secret weapon", according to this weekend's ABC newspaper - is being relaunched in Seville. The initiative has been greeted with scepticism by the region's Hostelry Union because...
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| Published in | Belfast telegraph |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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Belfast
Independent News & Media
10.07.2007
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| Summary: | Long hailed as the country's greatest contribution to civili- sation, the siesta - "Spain's secret weapon", according to this weekend's ABC newspaper - is being relaunched in Seville. The initiative has been greeted with scepticism by the region's Hostelry Union because it implies extra work for its members. "It could be a way of dignifying the old custom of hiring hotels by the hour," a spokesman said. Spain tried to abolish the siesta in the 1980s before joining the EU, and two years ago in response to a globalised economy. Employers now prefer to rehabilitate the ancient custom, once denigrated as Mediterranean sloth, as "Iberian yoga" - a term originally coined by the Nobel Prize-winning writer Camilo Jose Cela - and make it part of modern life, as essential as the creche, the gym and company- funded language classes. |
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| ISSN: | 0307-5664 |