Sentences with phrase «of years of travel»

Going through of a year of travel pictures — selecting the one would tell the «story» well enough and help me connect with I readers — was fantastic.

I love how close it was to Moonstone Beach, which in all of the years of traveling to Trinidad, I had never been to, but highly recommend exploring in the early AM when the tide is out.

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Accenture has also worked on ways to get more women into senior leadership positions (they've changed the interview process so that candidates of both genders get to know more members in the executive ranks) and to retain them (implementing a one - year no - travel policy for employees who are new mothers and fathers).

The steadily increasing demand for air travel means Boeing is creating demand in the services market with the hundreds of new airplanes it is producing each year.

Last year, the founders of Boulder, Colo. - based Ubooly learned a few real - world lessons when they traveled to CES in hopes of gaining big - time exposure.

While most employees at least want to take full advantage of those hard - earned days off, less than half take the time to plan out their vacations each year, according to Project: Time Off, which is sponsored by the U.S. Travel Association.

After graduating with a degree in Architecture from Cambridge, she spent a year as Operations Manager aboard the record - breaking biofueled powerboat Earthrace, where she traveled 25,000 miles, visited 120 cities, and ran a campaign to promote the use of alternative fuels.

«When you look at where aviation came from, UAVs will travel that same path in 15 years,» says Robert Kendall, the former executive director of industry association Unmanned Systems Canada.

Last year, Paul English, a co-founder of the travel booking site Kayak — which Priceline bought for $ 1.8 billion in 2012 — looked at his calendar.

That was true again in 2016, with 54 % of employees ending the year with unused time off, collectively sacrificing 662 million vacation days, according to a study the U.S. Travel Association's Project Time Off released Tuesday.

In the last few years I've traveled to lots of countries that understand that the rise of entrepreneurship will be an economic engine for the 21st century.

As someone who spends thousands of hours in the air each year, I know how isolating traveling can be, especially when first starting out.

«We've got millions of new people traveling every year.

By the time we landed the next morning in Italy, I was genuinely disappointed to have to deplane, a strange feeling I'd never experienced in my years of frequent travel.

Like other major European airlines, the Franco - Dutch carrier benefited from low oil prices and strong travel demand last year, while the collapse of Monarch and Air Berlin has removed some competition from the market.

Last year, a study commissioned by Larato found, «Salespeople spend 11 % of their time traveling.»

Passenger traffic in the travel sector is growing at 7 percent a year — outpacing the United States» near - 2 percent GDP growth — and Boeing is at the center of the trend, Dennis Muilenburg, its chairman, president and CEO told CNBC on Thursday.

In the last four years or so, Battista has observed an influx of clients who've had their business travel claims questioned by the Canada Revenue Agency.

Your company's travel policy and the proximity of each team member may dictate the amount of face - to - face opportunities, but go to all reasonable lengths to be in front of each team member on at least a few occasions throughout the year.

Some successful entrepreneurs today travel around the world, hang out with celebrities, buy properties, swanky cars, sports teams, and whatever their hearts desire because they earn millions (or billions) of dollars a year.

In the years since selling the label he founded, Branson, who is currently attempting to make commercial space travel a reality, would go on to launch some of the world's most innovative companies.

About five years ago, overwhelmed by the logistics of planning at least two trips per month, he made the switch from organizing his own travel to using an agency.

For the next two years, they traveled around the country, sometimes for months at a time, hitting car shows, swap meets, trade events, rallies, and anything else they could think of to get the Gas Monkey name out there.

As this year's ultimate disruptor, Elon Musk, SpaceX & Tesla Motors CEO, discusses space travel, battery technology, solar power and the future of Tesla in a wide - ranging interview with CNBC's Julia Boorstin and Kelly Evans.

One fee that has become crucial to YVR's ambitions and a lightning rod for consumer discontent is the Airport Improvement Fee (AIF), which rose from $ 15 to $ 20 last year for passengers travelling outside of B.C. Whereas U.S. airports rely heavily on funding from government for infrastructure, Canadian airports are forced to borrow or raise fees, explains YVR senior vice-president Tony Gugliotta.

So although the air travel industry faces two huge challenges — the rising price of oil, and the environmental impact of the roughly 1.5 billion barrels of jet fuel that the airline industry burns through each year — the solutions are likely to be all but invisible.

Although the incident comes at the height of the busiest time of the year for cruise bookings, a period known as Wave Season, travel agents weren't bracing for a downturn in business Monday, in part because the incident had yet to get major publicity, said Mike Driscoll of Cruiseweek, an industry newsletter.

In 2010, I was traveling the world, leading the sales team of a company that had exploded from launch to almost 10 million a month in revenue in less then three years.

Topaz International, a corporate travel auditor, conducted a study this year in which it looked at 5,572 itineraries booked via corporate travel programs, of which 81 percent could be replicated, with the same routing, on public internet sites.

The company is just starting the matching process on the new platform, but the end goal is the same one stated by CEO Brian Chesky in January, in the wake of Trump's travel ban: Airbnb aims to provide housing for 100,000 people in need over five years.

If all goes well, and the next 7 - year EU budget plans are approved, that could turn into a budget of 100 million euros ($ 120 million) a year, with some 200,000 teenagers getting to know the joys of EU - wide Interrail travel.

Over the last 5 years, over 50 students from the city of St. Louis have worked diligently to fundraise over $ 100,000 to become the first in their families to travel internationally.

I traveled for almost a year before I pretty much ran out of money, but I didn't want to return to the States.

The company has a loyal following in North America and is now looking to expand globally, tasks that Day is suited for after serving as head of Starbucks's Asia Pacific Group; she traveled 240 nights a year, running business operations in 10 countries in Asia.

Look at the history of flight: the workings of intercontinental air travel were being hashed out by textile engineers John Stringfellow and William Henson nearly 60 years before the first airplane flight.

«And the amount of travel far exceeds the vacation time I used to get, where I was lucky to see one new place a year.

When Kat Cole traveled to Egypt with the international director of Cinnabon last year and the call - to - prayer came on over the speakers, she stopped and said, «That is so beautiful.»

After traveling to Costa Rica during my Junior year of high school, I was inspired to study abroad in college.

IAG's interest in Norwegian would see a wave of consolidation in European air travel which started last year extend its reach to long - haul travel.

Based on the GBTA study of 75 countries, here's a look at the top 15 by total business - travel spending in 2012, with percentage growth from the previous year:

Thirteen years later, she manages a staff of 23 and travels the country getting new FCi employees settled at the roughly 100 offices, mostly within federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State, where FCi operates.

According to the Capital One Rewards Barometer, a quarterly survey of U.S. consumers, half of respondents planning summer trips will pay at least some of their travel expenses using rewards, compared with 42 percent last year.

Waugh says the constant travel and punishing hours of the past two decades were not easy on his wife of 38 years, Lynne, or their three sons, now in their late 20s and early 30s.

After 18 years flying as an airline for the price conscious, Allegiant Travel Co. wants to add real estate development to its list of corporate activities.

Instead of waiting until their golden years to retire, some Americans are now embracing the concept of mini-retirements: periods of work alternated with shorter periods of reflection, travel or activities otherwise curtailed by full - time work.

The firm, which provides U.S. cities with international travel predictions, reversed its 2017 forecast that foreign travel to the U.S. would grow this year and expects the country to lose as many as 6.3 million visitors by the end of the year.

They ended up traveling for 18 months, and today, they've built a life that allows them the best of both worlds: half the year in a London flat and half of the year spent abroad, a lifestyle they chronicle on their website, Global Help Swap, and on their Instagram.

«Thanksgiving has historically been one of the busiest holidays for road trips, and this year we could see record - level travel delays,» INRIX transportation analyst Bob Pishue said.

New data from the U.S. Department of Commerce shows that foreign travel to the U.S. dropped 4.2 % in the first quarter of 2017 compared to last year.

The vast majority of people traveling for the holiday are driving — 89.3 percent, or 45.5 million, up 3.2 percent from last year.