70 percent of mentored small businesses survive past the five-year mark—nearly twice the rate of non-mentored businesses. as part of a shared commitment to empower small businesses, Mastercard and Bank of America are announcing the third annual Grow Your Biz Contest.
The Economist Intelligence Unit announced the world’s safest cities in 2019. Tokyo has again been named the world’s safest city this year. The EIU’s Safe Cities Index 2019 (SCI) ranks 60 cities across 57 indicators covering digital security, health security, infrastructure security, and personal security.
Business performance is greatly important to the success of any company. As the speed of business and the rate of change increases in the internet age, businesses cannot afford to get left behind. Maintaining the same level of performance year in, year out, is no longer sufficient. Companies must strive to do better and outperform their peers.
The governor of the State of Yucatán, Mauricio Vila Dosal, signed the agreement "Tourism as the Engine of Prosperity," joining forces with the governors of the Mexican states of Aguascalientes, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Guanajuato, Querétaro, Quintana Roo and Tamaulipas.
The proliferation of online enterprise has opened the world of business up to a bigger audience than ever before. Entrepreneurs have the power to build their own companies and scale them into powerful brands, starting with little more than a laptop and an internet connection.
International tourist arrivals grew 4% from January to June 2019, compared to the same period last year, according to the latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer.
For the sixth year, InterNations, the world’s largest expat community revealed the latest best destinations for expats to live and work. With more than 20,000 respondents, it is one of the most extensive surveys about living and working abroad, sharing insights into expat life in 64 destinations.
Over the past ten years, the world has seen economic ebbs and flows, evolving global competition and partnership, and boundless technological innovation. But, one thing has remained constant: people’s growing desire to travel the world, visit new landscapes and immerse themselves in other cultures.
TUI Care Foundation and the Travel Foundation announced the launch of an initiative to tackle single-use plastics in coastal regions of Cyprus.
Buenos Aires has become the latest city to join the International Network of Sustainable Tourism Observatories (INSTO), a pioneering initiative of the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) aimed at helping destinations manage tourism in a smart and sustainable manner.
The quarterly Thailand Tourism Confidence Index of 600 tourism operators was steady at 100 in the second quarter of 2019 and stood at 100 as predicted in the previous quarter. The projection of the Thailand Tourism Confidence Index for the third quarter of 2019 is also set at 100.
UKinbound has released its latest Business Barometer results, highlighting the measures tourism businesses are putting in place to reduce their impact on the environment.
The #ProtectMaldivesSeagrass campaign, headed by the Blue Marine Foundation and the Maldives Underwater Initiative (MUI) at Six Senses Laamu, has so far convinced more than 25 percent of resorts in the Maldives to protect their seagrass meadows.
Visit KC, a non-profit organization whose mission is to ignite global passion for Kansas City, has successfully renewed its accreditation through the Destination Marketing Accreditation Program (DMAP)—an esteemed, international industry distinction reserved for hospitality organizations that are valued in their respective communities.
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) is launching a unique online video sharing campaign that ‘dares’ foreign tourists and expats in Thailand to accept four challenges by creating videos to post on social media and share with friends using the #WeDareYouThailand hashtag.
