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Two years ago I was in Znojmo in July. Local hoteliers lamented that the city was empty, half the hotels closed and tourists were nowhere in sight. We then talked for a while about how to improve occupancy.

The hotel industry is a fascinating field. I never thought I’d be working in the hotel industry. Actually, I always wanted to be a botanist, but an aggressive professor of biology at secondary school put me off studying flora. After graduation, I went to the Tyrkys School of Tourism, where I got my first taste of this industry. At first I was attracted to guided tours of Prague, but I didn’t get the chance in the end. At the University of Economics, I became more concerned with management and marketing.