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REVIEW Assessing the status quo
How would you characterise your members’ sales in the second half of 2022? Marcel Forns, GEBTA Business travel experienced a strong recovery during the second half of 2022. In terms of number of trips, the figures from September to December 2022 recorded a significant increase and closed at 82 per cent compared with the figures of 2019 – or 75 per cent for the whole year. In terms of sales, the figures equalled those of 2019 due to the average price increase of products and services, mainly accommodation and air tickets. James Stevenson, GlobalStar Positive. That’s how I’d characterise our members sales in the second half of 2022. Business has…
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Pac-12 media rights deal on hold as league awaits resolution on UCLA’s Big Ten status from regents meeting
The Pac-12’s long, winding road toward long-term security was never supposed to last this long. It is mid-December, and the league still must wait on the conclusion of Wednesday’s University of California system regents meeting to proceed in its media rights negotiations. Almost six months after news broke of USC and UCLA departing for the Big Ten in 2024, the league still has not reconfigured. While it is considered almost a formality by some that UCLA will ultimately be allowed to join the Big Ten, the regents’ concerns dragging the process out this long has added a layer of skittishness to the proceedings. “It has significantly impacted the timeline,” Pac-12…
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US says it will expand, extend temporary status for Haitians
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Biden administration claimed Monday that it would expand non permanent authorized standing for Haitians presently residing in the United States, determining situations in the Caribbean nation have been much too dangerous for their forced return. The Homeland Security Division explained Haitians who have been in the United States Nov. 6 could use for Temporary Protected Position and these who had been granted it very last yr could continue to be an additional 18 months right up until Aug. 3, 2024. The administration has prolonged temporary standing for several countries and expanded or launched it for Haiti, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Myanmar, Cameroon and Venezuela, reversing a Trump-period…
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