THE COFFEE COMPASS
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Coffee Travel Holds The Smallest Total Audience Of Any Established Category
Count the audience for coffee travel and you will run out of people before you run out of fingers. Hotels, lodges and travel operators using coffee as an amenity or an origin experience hold 38,315 followers between all ten of them - less than a single mid-sized creator carries alone. This is the smallest total audience of any established category in the study, which is a strange thing to say about a subject that never stops being talked about...
Colombia Grows The Coffee, Germany Talks About It: Origin Is Not The Same As Audience
There is a rope stretched across the world map, and both of its ends are labelled "coffee." Pull on one end and you arrive at a farm - soil, altitude, a person who can lose a year's income to a fungus. Pull on the other and you arrive at a camera. The two ends share a single word and almost nothing else, and the distance the rope has to cover between them is the whole of the story. BeanBreaker Intelligence laid those two ends side by side in...
Chasing Opportunity, Chasing Space
Redfin's migration analysis of 2024 data found San Antonio the most popular destination for Gen Z movers, with a net inflow of 10,678, ahead of Washington DC at 8,631, Austin at 8,590, Nashville at 8,093 and Dallas at 6,944. Houston led millennial inflows with 16,365, followed by Baltimore at 11,724, Las Vegas at 8,860 and Atlanta at 8,753. New York recorded the largest net outflows for both: 29,554 Gen Zers and 42,698 millennials. Sheharyar...
The Knowledge Was Doing Something Else
Researchers examined nearly nine million American death certificates from January 2020 to December 2022, covering 443 occupations. Taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest risk of dying from Alzheimer's disease of any of them. After adjusting for age, sex, race, ethnicity and education, roughly one in a hundred taxi and ambulance drivers died of Alzheimer's, against one in sixty across the population. The pattern did not extend to bus drivers...
One Hundred and Three Front Doors
Cork City Council has granted permission to Pontorac Ltd for 103 homes at Pope's Hill, Pope's Road, Blackpool, on a 2.58 hectare site about 400 metres east of Blackpool village, between the Glentrasna estate to the north and Collins Barracks to the east, with the military cemetery on its northwest side. Fifty townhouses and 53 duplex apartments, two to four storeys: 18 one-beds, nine two-beds, 68 three-beds and eight four-beds. Twenty-one units...