The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

These kinds of issues are clearly linked to more long-term population changes than the kind of peaks and troughs associated with tourism, and there was a common concern that COVID would cause these trends to deepen. How does a gateway community navigate tourism, and growth writ-large, more gracefully?” ” Help to adapt.

Tourism 94

Tourism Transportation Education Trends 94

The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Peak Population — world population growth is rapidly slowing and projected to peak this century. Global tourism rises (pre-pandemic). Are We Running Out of Resources ? — spoiler alert; NO. They’re more abundant than ever. The End of Famine — famines have virtually disappeared outside of war zones.

Trends 122

Trends Globalization Tourism Wilde 122

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Joint-Venturing - Partners come together for specific purposes or projects that may be beyond the scope of individual members. Construction industry general contractors, subcontractors and service providers in major building projects. Each retains individual identity. The joint-venture itself has its own identity.

Cooper 50

Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

. “One day, while having breakfast with the then-CEO of WISH, he asked me how we could address autism for the 2016 WISH summit,” said Dr. Azeem, who then organized a panel of specialists in this area to explore the possibilities of this project. Stakeholders Can Help Address Industry Gaps.

Organization 10

Organization Content Education Tourism 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

We are working with a large travel and tourism firm to introduce a system for real-time employee feedback. In a project for a pharmaceutical company, we were able to isolate the specific information sources that drove positive and negative sentiment toward the client’s brand. Capture Reference Data About Current Change Projects.

Company 8

Company Management Metrics Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions and a fragile economy. However, remaining U.S.

Tourism 8

Tourism Banking Due Diligence Hotels 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

A forecast issued late in the year by The Chronicle on Philanthropy projected their collective growth at just 1 percent. In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance Rogers Tourism Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2011

Look below the surface, and the scale of this achievement so far becomes clearer — not only because of the world-class execution of this $15 billion project, but also the context in which it is being delivered. The unscheduled project was pulled together in months. Even the notoriously cynical British media remain supportive.

Supply Chain 10

Supply Chain Tourism Banking Budgeting 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I spent a couple of days gathering data about the tourism industry and the company’s current footprint in the market, and identified strategic opportunities for them there. The project highlighted the qualities I wanted to show to recruiters; more importantly, it also addressed one of the main weaknesses they saw in me.

Tourism 8

Tourism Career Storytelling Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Cuba projects a population of 10.8 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 is closing primary schools and opening homes for the elderly, closing pediatric wards and opening geriatric wards. million in 2030.

Biotechnology 8

Biotechnology Tourism Human Capital Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments.

Company 10

Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 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

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Maybe, even, another Chinese big-dreamer would be Huang Nubo, founder and chairman of Beijing Zhongkun Investment Group, who is both a philanthropist (at Beijing University) and an entrepreneur who tried to buy 300 square kilometers of land in Northwestern Iceland as a site for Chinese tourism and leisure.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Proposal Stage-Gate Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In fact, while the total tourism market in Amsterdam grew 19 percent from 2009 to 2014, the Heineken Experience grew 143 percent. Like theme parks, they frequently rank among the top tourist draws in cities around world, including in Amsterdam , Atlanta , Detroit , Dublin , London , Nashville and Wolfsburg.

Brand 8

Brand Storytelling Trout Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2017

But increasingly, what companies sell are projects. A focus on selling projects would mean helping someone do something more specific, such as running the Boston Marathon. The project would have a clear goal (finish the marathon) and a clear start and end date. And that is just one type of project.

Project 8

Project Productivity Products Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

For a country that isn’t export-oriented, and whose major industry, tourism, relies on stability, having its own currency is not much of a solution to economic woes. There’s just too much at stake—for Greece, for the Eurozone, and for the European project more broadly.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

But he was now a postdoc working on a desalination project that he believed could solve South Florida’s water problems. The local economy hadn’t diversified beyond its base in tourism and real estate into fast-growing areas such as health care or bioscience, and entrepreneurial success stories were few and far between.

Case Study 8

Case Study Incubator Marketing Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2014

But is it likely that this will improve Brazil’s image and increase tourism, which is often cited as a benefit of hosting mega-events? What is more, the damage that can be caused to tourism by unrest can more than outweigh the benefits of being an attractive place with a good party atmosphere.

Tourism 9

Tourism Sports Long-term Construction 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

In Procter & Gamble facilities you often will see project teams pitching new ideas outside the corporate cafeteria. A few years ago we helping a startup develop an idea for a medical tourism business where customers seeking elective procedures would fly to exotic but lower-cost destinations. Test the idea among your employees.

Innovation 14

Innovation Venture Capitalist Seminar Tourism 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2015

An alternate way forward may be to use higher government spending to assist vulnerable people, to lend to business, and to execute projects that inject money into the economy. Business thrives under conditions of certainty, which has been sorely lacking in Cyprus and Greece since the implementation of the austerity agenda.

GDP 8

GDP Real Estate Tourism Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2018

If the supplier had used its 2016–2017 sales data, which showed greater demand for its products as a result of the boom in UK tourism, to predict future results and set next year’s strategy, it may have overestimated future performance and ended up with too much inventory, higher costs, and pressure to discount heavily to move product.

Planning 8

Planning Supply Chain Strategic Planning Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

Record flooding in Thailand in 2011 severely impacted air travel, tourism, and one of the major regional airports in Asia. Air quality and smog red alerts and the complete bans on vehicle traffic in major cities around the world highlight how traditional commerce and supply chains can and do grind to a halt because of climate risks.

Cost 8

Cost Tourism Supply Chain Attrition 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

How To 76

How To Middle Management Innovation Technology 76