According to a recent TripAdvisor(TM) survey of more than 2,100 travelers from around the world, 68 percent of travelers regularly stay at the same hotel chain when on business trips. Marriott was selected as the top hotel choice when traveling for work. Thirty-four percent of respondents plan to take one to three business trips this year, and nearly ten percent will take ten or more trips for work this year.
A study released today as the 12th installment of AeA's ongoing Competitiveness Series shows the U.S. tech industry added over 140,000 jobs between January and June of 2006, a 2.5 percent rise, for a total of 5.81 million. This is nearly double the 78,900 tech jobs added in the first half of 2005 and the strongest job growth of any six-month period since 2001. Nonetheless, January to June 2006 tech job growth lags that of the U.S. private sector, which rose by 3.5 percent over that period.
A new business survey from global real estate consultants Cushman & Wakefield has revealed which UK cities are considered by major companies to be 'best for business'. UK Cities Monitor 2006 ranks London as top overall but it is Birmingham which emerges as the major winner beating its rival Manchester into second place. Birmingham is also ranked number one (ahead of London) as the best city today in which to locate a new company headquarters.
Visa International today announced that the value of all purchases and cash withdrawals made with Visa Commercial payment solutions worldwide has reached US$317 billion for the four quarters ended June 30, 2006.
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) announced today that it plans to expand the availability of its options on Full-sized Gold (100 oz.) and Silver (5,000 oz.) futures by listing the contracts on its open auction trading floor, side-by-side with the e-cbot® electronic trading platform, beginning in the fourth quarter of 2006. Currently, the contracts trade exclusively on e-cbot, the Exchange’s electronic trading platform.
Only 33% of employees overall are satisfied with the quality and quantity of communications from their employer, according to a global study released today by Jack Morton Worldwide. The study also revealed that employers should be using experiential marketing - an increasingly prominent means of marketing to consumers - to engage and motivate employees, given the high marks staff give to live events.
Alcatel today announced it has won the 2006 Frost & Sullivan Market Leadership of the Year Award in the European fixed telecoms market category. The award recognizes the company's achievement in defining the network architecture for triple play deployments.
The emerging area of electronic waste (e-waste) recovery is attracting increasing attention as governments of several developed countries issue directives to address the environmental hazards posed by existing methods to dispose waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Conventional methods, such as disposal in landfills and incineration, are both potentially damaging to the environment due to the leaching and emission of certain toxic substances respectively.
Now this could very well be the week when world oil prices drop below $US 60 a barrel but that prospect isn't going down well in the US or in some other markets.
Miners operating in or planning to enter the resources sector in the Asia Pacific will face higher political risk factors than other geographies as a direct result of the impact on the region of globalisation.
