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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. An Opinion article in the Washington Post by John R.

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New Law in France: Limos Must Wait 15 Minutes Minimum Before Picking Up Rides

MishTalk

Note: "VTC" (Voiture de Tourisme avec Chauffeur) translates roughly as chauffeur driven touring car. According the Minister of Crafts, Trade and Tourism and the Interior Minister, the delay helps distinguish the activity of VTCs from taxis. Via translation from Les Echos, please consider Taxis against VTC: the conflict continues.

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What is Consulting?

Tom Spencer

They are typically employed by management, and hence they tend to be called “management consultants”. In general terms, management consulting involves providing advice to organisations with the aim of helping to improve organisational performance or solve specific business problems.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

Dubai is one of the firm’s newest offices, and for good reason – the city is a hot spot for tourism, real estate investment, trade, transportation, and financial services. Aon is a leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage and human resources consulting and outsourcing.

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The Secrets of Retail’s Repeat Top Performers

BCG

(See Creating Value Through Active Portfolio Management, the 2016 BCG Value Creators report, October 2016.) Travel and tourism, consumer durables, consumer nondurables, and fashion and luxury were the other four. The industry ranked eighth overall and fourth among the five consumer industries studied.

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Casual Apparel Outperforms High-End Fashion

BCG

(See Creating Value Through Active Portfolio Management, the 2016 BCG Value Creators report, October 2016.) Travel and tourism, consumer durables, consumer nondurables, and retail were the other four, and all five consumer industries finished in the top ten of the 28 industries we analyzed.

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Egypt Police Storm Pro-Mursi Camps; Deadly Clashes; Stocks Lower, Market Closed Until August 18

MishTalk

One of the major pillars of the Egyptian economy is tourism. The longer that the violence goes on, the longer it will take for Egypt to recover the type of tourism revenues it was generating before the revolution in 2011. link] Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management.

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