The Path of Business-Travel Recovery: Still Unsteady Even as travel executives gather to consider the steps to recovery for the sector, pandemic considerations force another high-level industry event to be postponed.
More than 600 travel-industry executives from around the world came together in Cancun, Mexico, this week for the World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit which last took place in 2019 to discuss “the road to recovery for travel.” The primary message of the event was that travel can resume safely with more international coordination and effort, particularly around the technologies allowing people to digitally upload and prove testing and vaccination status.
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Arnie Weissmann
In the mid-1990s, an outside counsel hired to represent Marriott International was doing an excellent job.
Bill Marriott, then CEO of the eponymous company, was impressed by the lawyer s style and capabilities. That s one sharp guy, he told a senior Marriott executive at the time, and he expressed a desire to bring him in-house.
Soon, the attorney, Arne Sorenson, was the company s associate general counsel, and a short time later, a senior vice president for business development, handling mergers and acquisitions. He was to go on to become CFO, COO and, in 2012, CEO. One of Bill Marriott s greatest abilities is to hire people different from himself, the senior Marriott executive told me.
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California and its 55 blue electoral votes might not have been all that popular during the Trump administration. But President Joseph Biden has decided the state s 40 million residents, and a few who chose to make it home for parts of their lives, have plenty to offer the country.
Biden has appointed several Californians to key jobs in his administration to help secure the homeland, preserve healthcare, boost the economy and improve education. Beyond his vice president former Sen. Kamala Harris the list includes a Nobel Prize winner, a school superintendent, a few UC Berkeley grads and professors, and a prosecutor who convicted a Hollywood madam.