Economic outlook, 79% of business travelers are feeling pressure from their employers to cut travel expenses, according to a new survey.
sponsored by Orbitz for Business, a unit of online travel company Orbitz Worldwide Inc. (OWW), and Business Traveler magazine - one-third of respondents said their main concern is cutting the cost of air travel. That’s [...]
SUFFOLK’S health chiefs should be more accountable and have elected representatives, it has been claimed today.
Elected councillors have highlighted concerns that NHS bosses are appointed and do not rely on the support of the public to stay in office, despite making extremely important decisions.
On Monday eighteen Ipswich Borough councillors met with Carole Taylor-Brown, the chief [...]
Thailand’s annual Tourism Festival and Travel Mart 2008 to be held 5-8 June, 2008, at Challenger Hall, Impact Muang Thong Thani Exhibition Centre, is to grow still further this year with the inclusion of exhibitors from Indonesia and Malaysia.
Already the biggest such event in the kingdom, the Thailand Travel Mart (TTM) 2008 Plus Amazing Gateway [...]
Even in today’s fiber-optically connected, digital world, there’s nothing like being there to get the lay of the land.
That’s why Business Review staff have traveled from Beijing to Chicago, and from Mackinac Island to Orlando just in the last year to talk with business leaders and bring back information our readers can’t get anywhere else.
From [...]
Victorian businesses will save more than $1 billion in payroll tax, land tax and workers compensation premiums under the Victorian budget handed down by Treasurer John Lenders yesterday.
Payroll taxes, which had been scheduled to fall from 5.05% to 5%, have been slashed to 4.95%. The thresholds on land taxes have been increased by 10%, with [...]
Cans view is that cycling is popular, safe, responsible and contributes actively to community well-being. %26quot;We realise this is a pro-cycling view, but we also do our best to be well informed.%26quot; The data below are sourced from the Ministry of Transport, Statistics NZ, the Ministry of Justice, Sparc, the Accident Compensation Corporation and the [...]
‘So, hold on a minute, you’re telling me to dunk the cheese in the hot chocolate?” If Silvia wasn’t working for ethically minded website yoursafeplanet.com, I’d think she was winding me up.My eighth travel-networking contact has brought me to La Puerta Falsa, a traditional wood-beamed cafe in Bogot%26aacute;’s historic Candelaria area (carrera 7, calle 11), [...]
The Nordic countries, with Sweden and Denmark, have really taken it to an amazing level, Gates told a conference on Latin American government, ahead of an annual Inter-American Development Bank meeting in Miami.
Whenever a (Nordic cabinet) minister goes out to lunch, you can see how much he spent for lunch and how much on the [...]
The New Zealand Rugby Union held a two-day forum on Wednesday and Thursday in Wellington to discuss the challenges New Zealand rugby faces and the possible shape it would take in the future.
One of the hot topics at the forum was the future of the 14-team provincial competition, which Rugby Southlands flagship team the Stags [...]
Lionsgate’s “Tyler Perry’s Meet the Browns,” about a single mom who connects with previously unknown kin at her late father’s funeral, opened in second place with $20 million.It was the latest success for writer-director and co-star Perry, whose past hits for Lionsgate include “Madea’s Family Reunion” and “Why Did I Get Married?” Shot on modest [...]
