Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity. Apps developed for tourism purposes started appearing in the 2000s, but initially they were predominantly created in university labs.

Tourism 9

Tourism Technology Content Fashion 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba’s growth domestic product per capita in 2015 is approximately what it was in 1985. It has tourism—beach and sun and one of the communist world’s last Jurassic political systems—but the real asset is the brains of its people. Cuba’s main resource to engage in the world is no longer sugar cane.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2016

” But how many travelers can “live there” before Airbnb accepts that it has become a vehicle for mass tourism, and that its users are tourists, no more and no less? With the number of listings in this small city of half a million people growing from 5,500 in May 2015 to over 10,000 today, a significant impact is inevitable.

Tourism 8

Tourism Travel Price Content 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

My story began in May 2015 when after 10 years of building a successful career in the Middle East, I decided to move to Silicon Valley to look for opportunities with tech companies. I met some fantastic people throughout the process, but nothing got me closer to a securing a role, or even a chance to interview.

Tourism 8

Tourism Career Storytelling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2016

After all, in 2015 Nucor recycled 17 million tons of scrap. The upmarket mechanism is ruthless: either you engage in moving upmarket or you will stagnate. There is no Plan B. Far from bad news, this is actually great for revitalizing industries and benefiting consumers. Which brings us back to the airline industry.

Airlines 10

Airlines Travel Industry Disruptive Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Thanks to Airbnb, more people will travel, bringing more tourism dollars to more people in the countries they travel to, creating more profits and distributing them more fairly. This kind of innovation is almost a textbook example of frugal innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Globalization Innovation Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2016

Excluding smaller-scale bombing attacks of police and military targets, the airport bombing has been the 11th mass civilian casualty terrorist incident in Turkey since June 2015, leaving more than 250 civilians dead. Terrorism impacts tourism, but not for as long as you might think.

Tourism 10

Tourism Politics Uncertainty Price 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

Although the Eurozone’s 19 finance ministers recently threw Greece a much-needed economic lifeline , and the latter repaid the first of four loan installments that it owes the IMF in March 2015, there’s no long-term relief in sight for the troubled economy. A managed exit from the common currency could alter that.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Record snowfall in Boston of more than 100 inches in the winter of 2015 shut down transit systems for weeks and made it difficult, if not impossible, for some employees to get to work. Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia. after Hurricane Katrina.

Cost 8

Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

According to statistics published by the National Trade and Tourism Office, 1.9 million people, earning an average salary of $152,868, traveled to Europe on business in 2015. How could spies benefit, should the electronics ban be expanded?

Travel 10

Travel Airlines Company Hotels 10