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by Kent Bernhard, Jr
A new study finds that treating the people at the lowest rung of the corporate ladder right isn’t just a nice thing to do. It improves the bottom line. Want your business to make bigger bucks? Treat the grunts right
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NEW YORK, N.Y., May 18 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- CheapOair has been serving the student travel market for years, making it easy for student travelers to search and book low airfares online for domestic and international destinations. CheapOair is committed to excellent customer service and affordable airfare, regardless of the economic climate, and therefore the ideal travel shopping site for all travelers: students and any smart traveler looking for quality and value
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The Winnipeg Convention Centre was transformed into a Canadian tourism destination supermarket this week, attracting about 300 international tourism buyers to pick and choose from polar bear excursions in Churchill to Rocky Mountain getaways.
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For many in the world of education, the months of May and June represent the end of the academic year and the start of tourism's high season. Thus, from the perspective of the tourism industry as the academic year wanes, new tourism educational opportunities begin to wax.
Educational tourism is one of the fastest growing areas of the travel and tourism and one that is too often overlooked by tourism professionals and marketers
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By Daniel Edward Craig As a hotel manager, when a guest comes to the front desk to register a complaint, do you: 1) look busy; 2) skulk out the back door; or 3) handle the matter personally? Not that difficult a question, is it? Then why do only 4% of negative reviews on TripAdvisor get a response? Does the fact that reviews are often anonymous and directed at travelers rather than hotels let us off the hook? Or are hoteliers even paying attention? Consumers certainly are
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By Sheena Goodyear,
QMI Agency When it comes to job searching, every picture, tweet, status update,
eBay transaction and online poker hand matters, a new study suggests.
The Microsoft study found that 79% of prospective employers review
online information about job applicants ‹ and they look at pretty much
everything.
Microsoft asked 1,200 hiring and recruitment managers in the U.S.,
the U.K., Germany and France what they use to research applicants
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By: Ciara Byrne, The Canadian Press
5/05/2010
Toronto hotel guests have been proudly refusing housekeeping services by hanging "green" notices on their doors but the eco-friendly initiative is costing room attendants their jobs, workers charged Wednesday.
Employees from the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, the Delta Chelsea and Delta East hotels claim recent environmental efforts made by the hotels amount to a "fake green" program
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By Martha Wickett - Salmon Arm Observer
Be prepared for post-Olympics tourists.
This was a central message that Yavhel Velazquez, manager of WorldHost Training Services with the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, brought to Salmon Arm last week.
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Tourists huddle in fur-trimmed parkas around a hole in the ice on Wakeham Bay.
Their guide is explaining the local winter tradition of collecting mussels under the sea ice. Although hesitant to climb down into the narrow hole, the visitors are clearly impressed with yet another of the unique charms of this community on the northern coast of Nunavik.
"You ain't seen nothing yet," said the guide, master outdoorsman Yaaka M. Jaaka.
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A Danish hotel is offering a free meal to any guest who is able to produce electricity for the hotel on an exercise bike attached to a generator. The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Copenhagen says the idea is to get people fit and reduce their carbon footprint. Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness. The hotel already produces renewable energy with solar panels on its facade
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