The UK has made long-awaited changes to its listing rules for SPACs, loosening regulations to more closely mimic major global markets in hopes of luring blank-check companies to London. But will it work? The bulk of European SPAC vehicles this year have opted for Amsterdam, and the UK may face an uphill battle to pitch itself [...]
El Foro Preferente acoge el mayor encuentro de líderes de la industria turística para debatir sobre los principales temas que copan la agenda del Sector que sustenta la economía española y mundial. El Foro Preferente abordará en Madrid el horizonte de las agencias y los turoperadores, el vigor y flaqueza del sector turístico, y la [...]
Se ha celebrado la IV edición del congreso de referencia en el sector turístico español, ITH Innovation Summit, con una inmensa acogida. La bienvenida e inauguración ha corrido a cargo de Víctor Badorrey, director de relaciones institucionales de SEGITTUR; Natalia Bayona, Director of Innovation, Education, and Investments de World Tourism Organization (UNWTO); y Javier García [...]
TUI will raise €1.1 billion by selling new stock, making it the latest travel company to tap investors for cash to reduce a giant pandemic debt pile. The share sale, at a discount price of €2.15 each in a rights offering, will allow the world’s biggest tour operator to reduce its draw on a state-backed [...]
The startup funding party is still raging, according to our recent Q3 report. North American venture capital investment held up at near-record-setting levels in the third quarter, as both early- and late-stage dealmaking remained on fire and big exits accumulated. Overall, investors put $79.6 billion to work across all stages from seed through technology growth, [...]
On the 28th & 29th October, Malaga - Costa del Sol, will take place the only event in the industry that brings together the main European leaders, administrations and institutions. With top-notch presentations, business insights, innovative content and networking opportunities.It is the place to move the sector Forward Together. It will take place the only event [...]
Alitalia is the best example of how wrong could be to keep alive a public company as a flag carrier. That implies disastrous management which generates an economic burden to the taxpayers, in a competitive environment where mostly non-democratic governments maintain the obsolete tool of the flag carriers while liberalization is the norm in the rest. [...]
Why and When Berlin remembers August 13, 1961, the day when the construction of the wall that divided the city until 1989 began and whose remains are now the object of curiosity for the visitor or of reflection on the traumatic division. For more than 28 years, the 156.4 kilometres of wall constituted a physical [...]
Está claro que la Humanidad tiene una innata predisposición al catastrofismo. Desde tiempos remotos siempre ha estado dispuesta a creer los más negros augurios y a esperar lo peor, desconfiando de todo lo nuevo. Ingenuamente uno pensaría que el avance tecnológico habría mitigado esa patética predisposición al catastrofismo, pero lejos de ser cierto, los medios [...]
Este va a ser un artículo largo y denso, dirigido claramente a los suscriptores de TravelThink, que me honran con su confianza desde hace 16 años, y no a aquellos que se conforman con picotear noticias superficiales en medios generalistas. La primera precisión está en su título: Iberoamérica frente a Latinoamérica. Porque el mismo se refiere [...]