Sentences with phrase «year i travelled on»

I work with a very successful self - published non-fiction author who has a good national media profile, loyal fan base and spends most of the year travelling on the speaking circuit.

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April 24 (Reuters)- United Technologies Corp reported quarterly results that topped analysts» estimates on Tuesday and raised its full - year forecasts, citing higher demand for spare parts and services from airlines dealing with booming passenger travel.

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).

Lunar New Year means major spending across Asia on food, red packets and travel.

The most recent competition, to land a module on the moon and have it travel 500 meters and transmit video back to Earth, ended without a winner after 10 years.

Dennis Lennox, who reportedly spends more than 200 nights a year in hotels on business travels, told The Journal.

Travel search engine Kayak helped us narrow down the most popular spring break destinations in America this year by looking at searches on the site over the last six months (October 9, 2017, through January 9, 2018) for travel dates between February 24 and April 21,Travel search engine Kayak helped us narrow down the most popular spring break destinations in America this year by looking at searches on the site over the last six months (October 9, 2017, through January 9, 2018) for travel dates between February 24 and April 21,travel dates between February 24 and April 21, 2018.

For the whole staff, it could mean a bot that knows everything from the guest Wi - Fi password to how to input travel expenses to the company policy on rolling over sick days from year to year.

Lunar New Year, popularly known as Chinese New Year, means major spending across Asia on food, red packets and travel.

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.

For example, Ride - On Carry - On, a kid's chair that turns a rolling suitcase into a travel stroller, was invented by a flight attendant who needed a better solution for traveling with her two - year - old son.

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.

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.

Another example: On a trip to Guatemala last year — Liu frequently travels to source countries to meet with suppliers — he struck up a conversation with an older American gentleman while having dinner.

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.

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.

While Branson tells the Telegraph he spends half the year traveling the world on business trips, he says he spends the other half on his tiny private Caribbean island, Necker.

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.

While more people booked travel on Southwest in the third quarter, fares on average were lower than they were a year earlier, especially for last - minute bookings.

The card, which has a $ 95 annual fee, earns 3x points per dollar on the first $ 150,000 you spend each cardmember year in a few categories, including travel, shipping, internet / cable / phone, and advertising on social media sites or with search engines, such as Google Ads.

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.»

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:

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.

Bompas travels between 80,000 and 100,000 miles per year, mostly on British Airways.

She travels from home in California to Toronto four times a year, and is looking for an apartment in the city for when she's here on company business.

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.

Western Australians opted to spend their free time travelling within the state last year, with Rottnest Island visitor numbers reaching their highest on record between July and December.

The Justice Department imposed conditions on the acquisition, forcing Google to maintain separation between its search and travel flights businesses and to submit to government monitoring of complaints for five years.

The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) released its 2017 outlook on Thursday, estimating 25.3 million passengers will set sail next year, up from 24.2 million expected to travel in 2016.

Airlines» customer service practices have come under fire in recent months, and just last year, U.S. carriers were cleared in a federal investigation regarding exorbitant fare mark - ups in the wake of a deadly Amtrak derailment that drove up demand for air travel on some routes.

President Xi Jinping, who often travels abroad on a Boeing 747 operated by Air China, is unlikely to start flying on the C919 soon, as it will be at least a couple of years before it goes into mass production.

I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

We interviewed travel experts and entrepreneurs who log more than 200,000 miles a year on business trips.

Helpfully they publish the data in their year - end review, noting which cities have surged in popularity over the previous twelve months so you can choose to get in early on the next travel hot spot.

The World Travel and Tourism Council says governments are spending hundreds of billions of dollars on tourism this year.

The life of Andre Roussimoff is a myth built from years traveling the globe on the wrestling circuit (and has only increased since his death in 1993), and Simmons enlisted director Jason Hehir to uncover the truth about the legendary figure.

Furthermore, Boris Schlossberg, managing director at BK Asset Management, said Tuesday on «Trading Nation» that while neither stock is a buy right now, «the bullish case for both is if you're truly a big believer in a massive bull move this year in the market, and that the tax cut is going to increase spending on travel.»

In the 4.4 billion years it took a species capable of space travel to form on Earth, Fermi proposed that the galaxy should have been overrun with intelligent, technologically - advanced aliens.

The accommodations rental site says outbound travel from China on the platform has grown 700 percent in the past year.

Last year, I tried Airbnb for the first time when traveling in order to save money on the costs of a hotel.

The five Americans were traveling from Delhi to New York City on Aeroflot earlier this year, and they say that the airline treated white passengers and ethnically South Asian U.S. citizens differently during a stopover in Moscow.

The serial entrepreneur and investor, who serves on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business, spent several years as a kid living in Tokyo and fueled a lifelong zest for travel, which his international consulting practice provides plenty of today.

Travel experts have a long list of suggested destinations, and plenty of tips for those looking to get started on planning next year's journeys.

And best of all, these adventures are supported by a company travel reimbursement of up to # 557 ($ 750) per year (based on time with the company).

Staffers get a whopping # 1,485 ($ 2,000) per calendar year to spend on travel with the caveat that they go somewhere they've never been before.

CEO Óscar Grau, director of football Raül Sanllehí, and first team squad director Javier Bordas have travelled to the UK willing to spend $ 120 million (# 108 million) on the 25 - year - old.

All of these prices are based on travel dates that fall within the one - year period of November 1st, 2016, and October 31st, 2017.

He was 15 years old and traveling with his father when tribal militants shot down their plane over the Somalian desert, according to his story shared on the Marine Corps blog:

He traveled in Italy, Brazil, Argentina, Switzerland and Morocco and was issued a 10 - year visa in Brazil in 2016, according to FBI agent Elizabeth Rivas, who testified on Wednesday about De-Meyer's arrest at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday night.

Foreigners spent more than $ 5.4 billion on travel in the first quarter, compared with about $ 5 billion over the same period a year earlier and $ 4.7 billion in the first quarter of 2014.