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Transformation tourism

Seth Godin Blog

I took the course. Tourism is fun, but rarely transformative. "I bought the diet book, but ate my usual foods.". "I I filled the prescription, but didn't take the meds.". "I well, I watched the videos. but I didn't do the exercises in writing.". Merely looking at something almost never causes change.

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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

Since they have maintained artificial exchange rates – coupled with capital controls, price controls and other coercive and self-defeating economic policies – people have of course felt it necessary to get their money out any way they can.

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business

But replicating the facility- and labor-intensive American model — which is more costly than that of any other nation yet produces subpar results — will set these emerging economies on the same course of endless cost escalation that has plagued the United States. exports to Saudi Arabia of hospital equipment alone increased 54%.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

According to statistics published by the National Trade and Tourism Office, 1.9 Of course, they can work on smartphones, but that solution has obvious limitations. Of course, it was directed against the United States as well as others. How could spies benefit, should the electronics ban be expanded?

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business

And who knows what virtual reality might end up doing to tourism levels? Of course, that concern may shift as northern Eurasia, including China, experiences demographic crunches.). But developments such as robotics and 3-D printing might end up reducing rather than increasing trade levels, depending on how quickly their costs drop.

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

Harvard Business

Of course, Southwest is a lone bright spot in an otherwise stagnant industry. ” Airlines are also pursuing efficiency in ways customers don’t see so easily, such as reducing the number of short-haul flights they offer and centralizing passengers in large airports. And there is a sense in which poor regulation is to blame.

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How Multinationals Should Be Planning for Brexit

Harvard Business

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.