The global inflation crisis paired with lackluster economic growth and an outlook clouded by uncertainties have led to a decline in real wages around the world, a new report published by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has found. According …
After the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021, the accommodation sector is finally showing signs of recovery. In a 2022 survey of European accommodation providers, 70 percent of accommodation professionals indicated that the development of t…
After the deadly fire in Ürümqi, the regional capital of Xinjiang, on Thursday, November 24 – which some have attributed to the strict lockdown rules of the Chinese authorities’ ‘zero Covid’ policy – large-scale protests broke out across China. Accordi…
Protests have erupted across mainland China against the Beijing government’s strict zero-Covid policies. Sparked by a deadly tower block fire in Urumqi, in the western region of Xinjiang, that claimed the lives of 10 people, demonstrations spread to se…
One in five adults in the United States say they plan to go to church on Christmas Day this year. Some people however, intend to worship at a very different altar come December 25; according to the Statista Global Consumer Survey, six percent of U.S. a…
Two weeks after reporting disappointing fourth quarter earnings that missed Wall Street’s expectations on both the top and bottom line, Disney announced the immediate return of Bob Iger as CEO of the company he had previously led from 2005 to 2020. Ige…
Cigarettes do not have the same pull factor for young Americans that they used to. Looking at Gallup survey data going back to 2001-2003, roughly one-third of young adults in the U.S. said they smoked cigarettes twenty years ago. Now though, in the per…
Governments from around the world have agreed to draw up a global agreement by the end of 2024 to put an end to plastic pollution. As the following chart shows, a majority of polled consumers believe it is important to create such rules. Across all 34 …
Online Black Friday spending in the U.S. rose to a new record in 2022, hitting $9.1 billion, according to estimates from Adobe Analytics. Despite consumers battling with high inflation and a cost of living squeeze in the run up to the Christmas period….
Twitter has descended into absolute chaos since Elon Musk bought it for $44 billion last month. It all started when the new CEO fired around 50 percent of the company’s workforce in the first week of November. Then, just one week on, the company announ…