When I first read that Hyatt had fired 98 housekeeping staffers in Boston and allegedly hired the outsourced cheaper workers they had trained, I wanted to find out more. I suspected the story might be more complicated than it appeared....
September 2009 Archives
What's up with the luxury travel market? We all know that the travel industry has been devastated by the economic crisis, but what does the downturn mean in the long run for luxury travel and high-end resorts?
Bhutan's former King, Jigme Singye Wangchuk, coined the phrase Gross National Happiness in 1972, and it's taken the rest of us almost 40 years to catch on to the idea that there's more to life than just money. But finally, Nobel-prize winning economists Joseph Stiglitz, of Columbia University, and Harvard University's Amartya Sen have conducted a study that says the world's old measurements of economic success have failed us.
Every year 3.6 million people die from water-related disease, and 84 percent of those are among children from 1 to 14 years old. Approximately one in eight people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water.
Plenty of travel companies argue that their guests care about the environment but won’t pay more for a hotel or tour operator that supports environmental and social projects. It seems to me that those companies are missing the point. If...
I'm going to sound like I've drunk the Kool-Aid, or worse, that I'm on somebody's payroll, but I swear to you, Accor, whose Sofitel and Novotel hotels cater to business travelers, really gets the idea of sustainable development. This year,...
Chen Shui-bian's life prison sentence seems to be shockingly severe punishment for allegedly stealing government money. The whole ugly saga, which became a major battle between the ruling Nationalist Party and Chen's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), perpetuates the perception that Taiwan is an unruly place.
We haven't told you about this yet, because we wanted to do some work quietly first. But a week before we host our third Condé Nast Traveler World Savers Congress, it's time to share some news about the progress...
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