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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.

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Understanding the Evolving Cuban Consumer

BCG

Restrictions on trade and travel are easing. Cuba has taken steps toward opening its market and loosening the rules governing private businesses, and it has made overtures toward reestablishing international trade. The first looked at Cuba’s overall macroeconomic development. This article is the second in a series.

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How an Airplane Laptop Ban Would Expose Company Data to Espionage

Harvard Business

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. government received credible intelligence that ISIS had developed the capability to conceal explosive devices within laptops, tablets, and other large electronic devices, these devices have been banned, as of late March, from the airline cabins of U.S.

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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

Now the governments of both Venezuela and Argentina have reacted – the former by introducing a ''second bolivar exchange rate'' for certain types of exchanges, the latter by stopping to defend the peso''s value in the markets by means of central bank interventions.

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The Leadership Clash That Led Colombia to Vote Against Peace

Harvard Business

They were signing a peace agreement to end the long-running conflict between the Colombian government and the guerrillas. His support has grown, thanks to intense and seething activity on Twitter, where he often attacks the government’s decisions. Santos will have a difficult two years to govern until the end of his mandate.

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Airbnb Is Facing an Existential Expansion Problem

Harvard Business

” But how many travelers can “live there” before Airbnb accepts that it has become a vehicle for mass tourism, and that its users are tourists, no more and no less? City governments throughout the U.S. Such developments are timely. ” Airbnb presents its business as a matter of speech.

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Deflation Bonanza! (And the Fool's Mission to Stop It)

MishTalk

One widely recognized "big loser" is the tourism industry. like restaurants, travel and hotels. Furniture chains, travel agencies and fashion companies are among the retailers slashing prices to rope in shoppers. Other travel is up as well. The recent move in the Swiss franc puts a spotlight on the issue. I commented.

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