Sentences with phrase «years spent traveling»

Other than two summers in Colorado and a year spent traveling the world, I've trained in Texas my whole life.

Because he is filtering online, however, he never has a chance to even see her profile, never mind hear about the year she spent traveling in South America.

The Awakening trilogy is the result of four years spent travelling, and depicts desolate environments including mountains, cliffs, deserts and ice plains.

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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.

Seznec spent years working in banking in the Middle East and still travels to Saudi Arabia regularly.

Donald Nolan is a New Jersey businessman who has spent years living and traveling overseas.

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

Domestic travel spending last year rose 15.9 percent from 2016, with 344 million domestic tourists spending 423.3 billion yuan ($ 61.5 billion), according to China's National Tourism Administration.

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

Before Yang designed the collection, she spent two years traveling around the country meeting with employees, observing them at work, getting feedback from union groups and reading through responses to more than 5,000 employee surveys.

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

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

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

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 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.

Tang worked in product design and development and spent 10 years traveling the globe.

While that's more than the $ 196 billion Chinese business travelers spent last year, business - travel spending in China grew 13.2 percent — three times the 4.4 percent growth rate in the U.S.. By 2016, Chinese business travelers are expected to spend more than those from the U.S., according to the report.

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:

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.

They lived in London, where Sargent was a business psychologist for a business - training company and Farrugia was working in retail — until they left it all behind to spend a year traveling from London through Asia by land.

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.

They spent New Year's Eve there, then traveled to Costa Rica and then to Miami.

One in three Americans travelled for business at least once in the past year, and Monday is the most frequent night business travelers spent away from home.

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

I have spent the last two years travelling across Southeast Asia, India and East Africa.

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.»

Zuckerberg spent much of last year traveling after he pledged to visit all the U.S. states that he had not previously been to.

In any given year, the world - famous jet setter and his assistant Helen Clarke visit some 50 cities, meaning Clarke, once a Virgin flight attendant, spends the majority of her time travel planning.

U.S. airline stocks hit a 13 - year high this week as they gained momentum from lower oil prices and increased travel spending by Americans in an improving economy.

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.

China is entering week - long Lunar New Year holiday and 6.5 million travelers are expected to be spending that break overseas, splashing billions of dollars over the break, according to a report by country's tourism authority and travel website Ctrip.

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.

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.

Earlier this week, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said the new tax legislation would boost business - travel spending this year and that would help boost shares of Delta, United and American, which are heavily reliant on corporate travel revenue.

It's easy to spend a bit too much during your first few years of retirement — particularly on vacations, Plessl and Houser note, as people want to travel while they're still healthy.

Before that, he spent years traveling the world.

The majority of money spent on business travel is within the U.S. Only $ 33.1 billion, or about one - tenth of the total, is expected to be spent on international business travel in 2013, according to the report, representing an increase of 3 percent over the previous year.

Khosrowshahi is an Iranian - born US citizen who spent the last 12 years running Expedia, the online travel agency used by millions of people around the world.

Shannon O'Donnell, travel blogger and former National Geographic Traveler of the Year, spent a recent afternoon visiting stationary store after stationary store in Barcelona looking for wrapping paper — no luck.

Three times a year the 25 bookstore owners travel to a different store, spending three days together.

At Linamar, trainees spend two years travelling among the different departments, then another three years in mid-level management positions that expose them to materials, accounting and quality management.

Wesner spent years as a travelling book salesman, developing a specialty in Amish communities.

According to a recent survey from discount travel - booking site Hotwire, Americans will spend $ 83 billion on holiday travel this year — up $ 11 billion from 2013.

Previously, the GBTA forecasted that business travel spending would grow 3.2 percent in 2016 to nearly $ 300 billion and that there would be an estimated 514 million trips this year, an increase of 3.1 percent.

Chrisomalis clocks about 150,000 miles a year (and roughly 2 million total thus far)-- much of them spent traveling between the company's New York headquarters and its brewing facilities in Nara, Yamagata, and Kyushu, Japan.

Earn 3 points per $ 1 on the first $ 150,000 spent on travel and select business categories each account anniversary year

Back in the U.S., 40 - something couple Keith and Tia Sims spend about 150 days a year traveling in their 43 - foot motor home, where they homeschool three young boys, ages 6 to 8.

AlixPartners» retail practice director, Noam Paransky, said shoppers have saved about $ 100 billion from low gas prices since last year, but middle - and low - income shoppers are holding on to those savings or spending on travel and entertainment.

Sure, the first years of retirement might be the best time to travel, do home projects and spend money on things you might not be able to enjoy later on.