Today's hotel guests apparently don't mind making their own beds. Tetra Images via Getty ImagesEco-friendly hotels increasingly are asking guests to forgo daily housekeeping or use their towels more than once.
Labour is changing the way sites for new homes are chosen. Francesco ScatenaThe election of the Labour government has been accompanied by a renewed appetite to deal with England’s housing crisis.
Orion Brown started Black Travel Box to serve Black female travelers who find hotel lotions and shampoos inadequate. Randel Bennett co-founded the insurance startup Sigo Seguros for underserved Spanish-speaking drivers. Bill Shufelt and John Walker founded Athletic Brewing Company so athletes and nondrinkers in social situations could drink tasty nonalcoholic beer.
Orion Brown started Black Travel Box to serve Black female travelers who find hotel lotions and shampoos inadequate. Randel Bennett co-founded the insurance startup Sigo Seguros for underserved Spanish-speaking drivers. Bill Shufelt and John Walker founded Athletic Brewing Company so athletes and nondrinkers in social situations could drink tasty nonalcoholic beer.
Many casual readers of the financial press will have learned a new term in the past few days: the “carry trade”. This is the culprit for the rollercoaster state of markets, many market commentators and journalists have opined.
Indeed it also played a role in kicking off the credit crunch and resulting global financial crisis in 2007-08. Should we fear a repeat? The answer this time is both yes and no.
Japan is pushing for more pedestrians. AP Photo/Eugene HoshikoIn the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates.
How you shop and what you buy at the grocery store can predict whether you pay your credit card bills on time, our new research shows.
As marketing professors, we wanted to learn about alternatives to traditional credit scores. So we teamed up with a multinational conglomerate that, among other things, runs a large supermarket chain and a credit card issuer.
It all appeared to begin in early July with angry Barceloni residents squirting tourists with water as they sat on restaurant terraces. “Tourists go home!” shouted locals to bemused diners in the busy Las Ramblas district, voicing their frustration at the problems their city faces, constantly overrun with visitors. Last year around 12 million people visited the Catalan capital, bringing €9.6 billion (£8.2 billion) to the local economy.
Hauling used goods around isn't worth the trouble when nobody can use them. Society of Saint Vincent de Paul, CC BY-NDTelling donors that their neighbors have provided high-quality furniture, clothing and other goods can cut the number of worthless items charities receive in half.
Japan’s stock market plunged 12% on Monday, August 5 – its worst day in 37 years. The severity of the fall triggered losses in stock markets around the world. In the US, for example, the Nasdaq index dropped more than 6%, while the S&P 500 dipped by 4.25%.
