Grab your coffee, Round-Up readers, lots to share this week! Attended two interesting press events in London; The Fife Arms in Scotland hosted a Christmas-themed breakfast showcasing their new line of sustainable crafts in partnership with Anna Garnered, a former Vogue staffer and fashion director at Henri Bendel and Selfridges. Anna’s passion for craft and sustainability is clear in the collection she has curated for the Fife Arms. Then had a major fangirl moment with leaders from Preferred Hotels & Resorts, Lindsey Ueberroth, CEO, and Brenda Collin, EVP of Europe, at their annual media lunch. The company is growing and doing some innovative leadership training programs with Cornell, so look for more on that soon! Welp, I know summer is here because media of all sorts are covering travel! Interesting takes on hotel room tech, scents, music tourism, tattoo tourism...so much! Let's just get to it... |
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Business, Women, and Random Trends: OTC Birth Control Approved in the US BIG YAY for this! The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved the first ever over-the-counter birth control daily pill, a positive development amid a heightened debate over contraception in the wake of the Supreme Court’s momentous decision last summer to overturn Roe v. Wade. Women are Never the "Right" Age <MASSIVE SIGH> A new study published in Harvard Business Review, "Women in Leadership Face Ageism at Every Age," reveals age bias now occurs across the career life cycle. “Youngism” is fueled by the conflation of age with maturity. Middle-aged women are feeling age bias due to perceived family obligations or menopause, and forget about being over 60. HBR offers tips to combat these biases. Also worth reading takes on the study in HuffingtonPost and Forbes. Why We Get Scammed and What to Do About It To avoid being fooled, we need to become aware of the mental habits and shortcuts that make us easy to deceive. Scams are only going to get worse with AI, and it can happen to anyone, and recently did to someone in my family, which is super upsetting. Please read in WSJ. Email me if you want to read, but don't have access. The 100 million Threads users aren’t all that engaged Though Meta’s Twitter clone has grown rapidly, Threads may not be holding people’s attention. This week, the number of daily active users was down about 20% from its peak, and users spent 50% less time on the app, NBC reported.
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Travel & Hospitality: so much travel news this week, had to use subheads! Do you like this better? IN THE NEWS Thousands of L.A. Hotel Workers Are On Strike Again Room attendants, cooks and front desk agents walked off the job Monday over pay at several major hotels at the peak of summer travel. ICYMI, Local 11 in LA had workers striking at 21 hotels.
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