Posts Tagged ‘tourism’
Everest isn't the most difficult mountain in the world to climb, but it is one of the most expensive. The individual cost of getting one's athletic *** to the top of the mountain range is between $40,000-$130,000. Most of this cheddar gets thrown at logistics. It takes a lot of money for a mountain outfitter ...
Putting a new spin on the term ‘digital nomad’, UK addressing platform what3words has partnered with Airbnb to list stays with Mongolian nomads. The startup’s simplified addressing system is being applied to help adventurous travellers ‘home share’ with Dukha reindeer herders at their mountain camp where there aren’t any street names to anchor a trip. The partnership is ...
A steep and rapid rise in tourism has left behind a wake of economic and environmental damage in cities around the globe. In response, governments have been responding with policies that attempt to limit the number of visitors who come in. We’ve decided to spare you from any more Amazon HQ2 talk and instead focus ...
Taiwan’s KKday, a startup in the increasingly competitive travel activities space, has pulled in an undisclosed funding round that adds two strategic investors to its business: Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba and Japanese chat app company Line. KKday was founded in 2015 to help people who travel overseas to find and book activities, ranging from tours ...
Disney is Anaheim's largest employer and the city is something of a company town, with Disney exerting massive influence on the city government and engaging in strong-arm tactics to suppress media reports of the dirtiest of its deals, whereby the city financed much of the company's building projects and expansions while extending massive tax ...
Airbnb’s head of engineering will leave the company before the end of 2018 to pursue other projects and focus on his family. The news was first reported by The Information and later confirmed to TechCrunch by Airbnb. Curtis joined the home-sharing platform in 2013 after about two years as the director of engineering at Facebook. ...
If you've been to Northern Ireland to see where Game of Thrones films – well, you're going again. HBO announced Monday that Thrones' Northern Irish filming locations will be reopened as fully outfitted tourist attractions as the show concludes ... ...
Chicago's tourism sector is booming, with a record 55,000,000 visitors to the city last year, and revenue up this year by 10.4% to $1.45B: but workers aren't seeing those gains.
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Toronto is one of the most loved towns and the largest city in Canada. It is the fifth most populous city in North America. The economy of this town has recovered a lot from the setback of the early 90's. Shopping in Toronto is spectacular as ever and festivals held here bring smiles to the ...
Since Christmas holidays have been over many Spaniards have had no day off to rest from the stress from work or to disconnect from the routine in a hotel peniscola or in the hotels of Alicante, popular destination for those who do not want to leave Spain and who want to rest on the ...