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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

Augmented reality operates by transforming data and analytics into information and images which are overlaid on the real world. Trainees with AR assistance are 35% more time efficient than trainees using traditional 2D documentation, and 90% more likely to perform an operation correctly the first time. AR in the Tourism Sector.

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Creating Incentives to Reduce Healthcare Costs; Medical Tourism Can Save Us All Money

MishTalk

Graham explains How Domestic Medical Tourism Could Save Us All Money. One of the most under-reported medical success stories in recent years has been the increase in medical tourism: traveling abroad to get high-quality care at a fraction of what it would cost in the United States. And there is no reason to stop at Medicare.

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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

If the aviation industry continues down the path of high CO 2 emissions, what will happen when new aerospace markets open: sub-orbital travel, supersonic flight, and space hotels? Sub-orbital travel, popularized in 2021 by Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk, is projected to become a $3.5 Billion industry by 2027. Other Trends.

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The Reason Air Travel Is Terrible and So Few Airlines Are Profitable

Harvard Business

Finally, they would take over the international air travel market. Today, air taxi companies operate in a similar fashion to the Southwest of yore. Then they would move upmarket to regional flights, private aviation, and eventually, national flights. Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry.

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Russia Ponders Russian Airspace No-Fly Zone for EU Commercial and Passenger Jets

MishTalk

Low-cost carrier Dobrolyot, operated by Aeroflot, suspended all flights last week after its airline leasing agreement was cancelled under European Union sanctions because it flies to Crimea, a region Russia annexed from Ukraine in March. Estimated Losses Greek tourism expects the move to cost $400 million. pct compared with a 1.4

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How I Fell In Love With Business: Confessions of a Bain Consultant

Management Consulted

My best friend and traveling companion, Lawson, was sporting – she’d studied Spanish for 10 years and was confident, conversational and even funny in the language. And I didn’t know how to operate. We traveled to a mountain village in central Honduras and met people who changed our life. I just had to be.

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Why Public Health Organizations Should Partner with Academic Institutes - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business

In October, Sidra performed the country’s first separation surgery of conjoined twins, paving the way for complex pediatric surgeries and eliminating the local need to travel abroad for rare and complex conditions.