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Points expands partnership with Southwest Airlines®, as carrier launches Rapid Rewards® Points .
Points International, Ltd.April 19, 2021 GMT
TORONTO, April 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Global leader in powering loyalty commerce, Points, (TSX:PTS) (Nasdaq:PCOM) has strengthened its ongoing partnership with Southwest Airlines Co. once more to introduce the Rapid Rewards Points Subscription Plan. Southwest Airlines is one of the first carriers to leverage the latest addition to Points’ product and services offering, Subscription, which enables Members to easily build towards their reward goals. The introduction of this new option is a first for Southwest’s Rapid Rewards program.
IOC Session praises achievements of Olympic Agenda 2020 and unanimously approves closing report IOC
The IOC Session today praised the achievements of Olympic Agenda 2020, the strategic roadmap for the IOC and the Olympic Movement. Following the review of the Closing Report on Olympic Agenda 2020, the IOC Members approved it unanimously.
Adopted by the IOC at its 127th Session in Monaco in December 2014, Olympic Agenda 2020 is a set of 40 detailed recommendations whose overarching goal was to safeguard the Olympic values and strengthen the role of sport in society. Identified and collated through a collaborative and consultative process involving Olympic Movement stakeholders and outside experts, they were driven by an understanding that the world was evolving rapidly and that the Olympic Movement had the opportunity to be an agent of change. The motto underpinning the process from identification to adoption to implementation was “change or be chan
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Tokyo 2020 first ever gender-balanced Olympic Games in history, record number of female competitors at Paralympic Games IOC
On International Women’s Day, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee, the Government of Japan and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) are reiterating their commitment to make the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer a landmark in gender equality on and off the field of play, paving the way for a more equal and inclusive society.
At the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020:
- Almost 49 per cent of the athletes participating will be women, according to the IOC quota allocation. These will be the first gender-balanced Games in history.