{"id":8567,"date":"2017-01-11T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8567"},"modified":"2017-01-11T11:01:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T11:01:08","slug":"international-thank-you-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8567","title":{"rendered":"International Thank You Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014 Geoff Kirkwood and Charles Alder spotted a lack of\u00a0acknowledgement, appreciation and gratitude.\u00a0Customers in restaurants failed to acknowledge staff attending to them, cashiers failed to say thank you to customers and recipients of charities failed to say thank you. Across the board they heard, \u201cThat is so true\u201d, \u201cMy boss never says Thank You\u201d, \u201ckids have terrible manners\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>So these Australian businessmen set out to change things by launching\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prlog.org\/12331744-international-thank-you-day-june-11-2014.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0\u201cThe Thank You Campaign\u201d<\/a>, a worldwide campaign to bring \u201cThank You\u201d back to life. They started with the World Thank You Day in 2014. With the backing of Brisbane City Council in Australia, they were able to extend the campaign worldwide, where it became\u00a0International Thank You Day.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8595\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thanks-1804597_1920.jpg\" alt=\"Thanks - photo by Wokandapix\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thanks-1804597_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thanks-1804597_1920-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thanks-1804597_1920-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thanks-1804597_1920-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/thanks-1804597_1920-1536x1027.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>The ITM Games Group would like to say <strong><em>Thank You<\/em><\/strong> to all the people we have worked with and worked for. Let&#8217;s keep sharing the fun together in the future.<\/h2>\n<h1>Thank You<\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2014 Geoff Kirkwood and Charles Alder spotted a lack of\u00a0acknowledgement, appreciation and gratitude.\u00a0Customers in restaurants failed to acknowledge staff attending to them, cashiers failed to say thank you to customers and recipients of charities failed to say thank you. Across the board they heard, \u201cThat is so true\u201d, \u201cMy boss never says Thank &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8567\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Thank You Day<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[521],"tags":[1304],"class_list":["post-8567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-calendar-events-misc","tag-international-thank-you-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International Thank You Day - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8567\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International Thank You Day - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Back in 2014 Geoff Kirkwood and Charles Alder spotted a lack of\u00a0acknowledgement, appreciation and gratitude.\u00a0Customers in restaurants failed to acknowledge staff attending to them, cashiers failed to say thank you to customers and recipients of charities failed to say thank you. 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