En el Foro Económico de Davos se produce cada año una mayor deriva hacia el dogmatismo y el nulo contacto con la realidad, lo que no deja de ser lógico dado quienes son los asistentes. Es también el lugar ideal para trasladar mensajes como si fueran verdades eternas, aunque no tengan ninguna base factual, ya [...]
No me he animado a escribir el primer eNews de 2021 hasta que hubiera noticias que indujeran al optimismo. Pero estamos en febrero y no las hay, la incompetencia pública gestionando la pandemia sigue a sus niveles máximos, ahora llevados al paroxismo con el proceso de vacunación. Así que me veo forzado a escribir con [...]
El maldito virus chino nos acaba de arrebatar a una mujer excepcional, a mi madre, en apenas dos semanas. Al menos tuve la suerte de poder acompañarla, minuto a minuto, en la habitación del hospital, donde una vez más dio una lección de vida, compartiendo su bondad y su positivismo. Mi madre pertenecía a la Generación [...]
If I were one of the investors that have bought shares of Airbnb once the price has doubled since the IPO, I would not be very relaxed. The truth is that Airbnb has yet to live up to the expectations of the IPO price, as the fundamentals of the company don't justify that valuation. So, [...]
United Airlines customers at Chicago O’Hare and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental airports can now communicate with customer service representatives through their mobile devices, eliminating the need to speak to someone in person at the gate or counter for services such as seat assignments, upgrades and rebooking. The “Agent on Demand” service will roll out to [...]
El TJUE, mediante unas conclusiones realizadas por el Abogado General Priit Pikamäe, dictamina que el hecho de que un vuelo aterrice en un aeropuerto distinto de aquel para el que se efectuó la reserva, en la misma ciudad o región, no origina un derecho del pasajero a compensación por cancelación del vuelo. Sin embargo, el [...]
I have always considered an interesting exercise to review the performance in the year of those start ups that the previous year were nominated as those to follow. In this case, I have selected the list prepared by Travel Massive (TM) of the "50 Travel Startups To Watch In 2020". In their words, some have [...]
The travel industry has suffered for years a myriad of public, semipublic and private organizations that have tried to set the standards and validate the qualify of different categories of travel players, mainly hotels and other types of accommodations. From the legal and more official classifications, we have contemplated many other approaches based on attributes [...]
One of the obvious consequences of the disastrous educations that recent generations have suffered (are suffering) is their incapacity to question the information, gather curated data, try to understand global and complex scenarios and then, try to formulate a personal conclusion. And as Mass Media is assisting to their irremediable progressive irrelevance is mimicking in [...]
It is clear that paper money and coins are a main source of transmission of COVID19. On the other hand, nobody can deny the tremendous negative impact that printing and distributing physical money has in our environment. With the current technologies and the level of mobile adoption in the EU there is no justification not [...]