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Our Physical World Has Changed: Augmented Reality in Tourism

Tom Spencer

AR in the Tourism Sector. Many countries are currently facing problems in their tourism industries caused by a downturn in domestic and international travel due to COVID-19. Tourism Ministries are working on recovery packages and strategies to boost tourism. billion in New Zealand. Conclusion.

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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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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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The Secrets of Retail’s Repeat Top Performers

BCG

Travel and tourism, consumer durables, consumer nondurables, and fashion and luxury were the other four. Overall, from 2011 through 2015, the retail companies in our sample returned an annualized TSR of 16% (down from 21% for the five-year period ending in 2014).

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What Cuba’s Economic Evolution Means for Multinationals

BCG

Two subsequent publications will analyze the country’s consumer and tourism industries.). In addition, the US government will have to further ease trade and travel restrictions. This article discusses the results of that analysis. That is a conservative estimate; Cuba’s GDP has risen by 5% to 6% in recent years.

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Cuba: A Tourism Conundrum

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Leisure travel to Cuba from the U.S. Several of my friends just returned from a trip to Cuba and I've been reliving their adventures in Havana and Santiago through photos. is still banned, but my friends were able to enter the country through the "people-to-people" program in which visitors interact with Cuban citizens in cultural activities.

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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. If the commercial aviation industry worked like the PC industry, things would look this way: Disruptive entrants would start by targeting the hyper-local air-taxi market, the lowest end of the commercial aviation industry today.