Bathroom Blogfest starts today!

In honor of companies and institutions who care about their customers by providing great bathrooms, we're featuring the best (and worst) bathrooms from a customer experience perspective. This Blogfest began last year with nine bloggers participating. This year we have 22 bloggers from around the globe.

I'll be posting all week, and encourage you to drop by the other blogs to read their perspectives. We have researchers, retail, branding, and marketing specialists, designers, journalists, and librarians all writing about the ladies room experience. Women will be posting from India, London, Toronto, and across the U.S.

In our country, we take good facilities for granted. But in other countries, public sanitation is still an evolving experience. In Kiev, Ukraine, the world's first toilet museum caught a visitor "using" one of the exhibits.

How about this porcelain palace in Chongqing, China, offering more than 1,000 fanciful public toilets and urinals?

This toilet-shaped house in Korea was built to showcase the work of the World Toilet Association. Their mission is no joke: to improve sanitation in under-developed countries. They sponsor the World Toilet Summit, being held in New Delhi this week, from October 31 to November 3. For more blogs on toilet facilities around the globe, visit the L.A. Times travel blog.

Tomorrow we'll start our American tour with a visit to the bathrooms at American Girl Place in Chicago.

Visit the group blog, and the other bloggers:

• Kate Rutter—Adaptive Path
• Laurence Helene Borel—Blog Till You Drop
• Iris Shreve Garrott—checking out and checking in
• Susan Abbott—Customer Experience Crossroads
• Maria Palma—Customers Are Always
• Becky Carroll—Customers Rock!
• Toby Bloomberg—Diva Marketing
• Linda Tischler—Fast Company Now
• C.B. Whittemore—Flooring the Consumer
• Ed Pell—K+B DeltaVee
• Helene Blowers—Library Bytes
• Claudia Schiepers—Life and its little pleasures
• Katie Clark—Practical Katie
• Sandra Renshaw—Purple Wren
• Reshma Anand—Qualitative Research
• Marianna Hayes—Results Revolution
• Carolyn Townes—Spirit Women
• Sara Cantor—The Curious Shopper
• Anna Farmery—The Engaging Brand
• Dee McCrorey—The Ultimate Corporate Entrepreneur
• Katia S. Adams—Transcultural

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