By eTN Global Editor Created 27 Feb 2015 – 7:10pm WASHINGTON, DC – Buoyed by higher same-store sales and traffic and a positive outlook among operators, the National Restaurant Association’s Restaurant Performance Index (RPI) remained elevated in January. The RPI – a monthly composite index that tracks the health of and outlook for the…
By eTN Editor Created 25 Feb 2015 – 2:12am Anita Mendiratta, CNN Task Group “Culture has a direct role in securing one’s roots – it is a bond that dramatically leads to conservation, safeguarding tangible and intangible heritage” – HRH Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, Chairman of the Commission for Tourism and…
By eTN Managing Editor Created 26 Feb 2015 – 10:06am The world is witnessing a rise in geo-economics, where the main global battlefield is economic rather than military. And with sanctions, competing trade regimes, currency and price manipulation increasingly taking the place of conventional warfare, the implication of these forces could be an unravelling…
By eTN Editor Created 27 Feb 2015 – 11:08pm IIPT Conference in Johannesburg Bea Broda L-R: Minister St.Ange & Mr. Geoffrey Lipman JOHANNESBURG, South Africa – Minister of Tourism and Culture of Seychelles, Alain St. Ange, and President of the International Coalition of Tourism Partners (ICTP), Geoffrey Lipman, spoke on a panel at the…
By eTN Editor Created 26 Feb 2015 – 11:45pm New York, NY –The Global Wellness Institute™ (GWI) in partnership with Scientific American Worldview recently held an invitation-only roundtable on the topic of “The Science of Wellness: Hype or Hope?” Leaders from the medical, science, business, technology, research, media, workplace wellness and hotel/spa worlds gathered…