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Taking the Long View on Cuba's Tourism Opportunity

BCG

Article Thursday, May 04, 2017 Improved relations with the US have brought a flood of US travelers—and a potential boon for travel companies.

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What Cuba’s Economic Evolution Means for Multinationals

BCG

We recently analyzed the principal factors that could affect the Cuban economy, including the potential impact of further market-liberalization measures by Cuba and additional measures by the US government. Two subsequent publications will analyze the country’s consumer and tourism industries.).

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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. A third will analyze the country’s travel and tourism industry. This article is the second in a series.

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Where Does the Airline Industry Go from Here?

Harvard Business

Eighteen months into the pandemic, a panel of experts discuss what’s changed, whether the bailouts were misspent, and if business travel is ever coming back.

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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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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business

This dialogue reached a consensus among political parties stipulating that the incumbent Islamists hand over power to a technocratic transitional government. Yet I didn’t want to turn down such an honor over the phone, so I traveled from Paris to Tunis to meet Prime Minister Jomaa. That was the beginning.