Articles tagged “health”

The last bird flu epidemic had the world flying scared and put the brakes on global travel. Airports and airlines are on the front lines of any outbreak and need to remain incredibly vigilant in order to prevent the flu from spreading further.

The closing highlighted the influence cruise lines hold over Caribbean islands that rely on them to bring in visitors.

The timing is certainly interesting on this one, so listen to the interview yourself and decide whether this is groundbreaking or part of an annual prank.

Whole Foods recently launched a food tourism venture, with a built in audience, and this would have the same philosophy behind it: tap the massive following of dedicated, wealthy, and discerning consumers who are likely to become the venture’s first customers.

Hotel chains have had more than two decades to enact provisions of the ADA and most of the better properties have already done so. It's the bottom dwellers that still complain about the costs and it's a mistake to lend them any support.

Dubai definitely has the transportation network and the hotels that would make this easy, but competing in medical tourism includes competing on price, which is something Dubai will need to get used to.

The study doesn’t touch on it, but there are certainly other factors besides the adults' roles as business travelers that make them more likely to hold these habits, especially when considering many business travelers are also owners and top executives.

Looking for the disgruntled employee behind the needle fiasco is like searching for one of them in a haystack -- not quite as easy as searching for one in a sandwich, at least in this instance.

Whole World Water's goals are ambitious, but they are off to a running start with some very public figures and well-known hotels already signed on to help.