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Global Wellness Tourism Market: Snapshot The demand within the global market for wellness tourism is expanding on account of the global propensity of the masses to immerse themselves into the cultures of a foreign land. Wellness tourism essentially refers to travel to a different country or region in order to …

Wagon display at Dairyville, on the Alpenrose Dairy campus in Southwest Portland. (Stephanie Yao Long/Oregonian file photo) The first thing visitors see as they drive through the main entrance to the Alpenrose Dairy campus in Southwest Portland is not an Alpenrose Dairy sign but a set of “Stop Children at …

Maria Raga, CEO of Depop, the fashion resale app, enjoys wearing other people’s old clothes, but what to call them? Secondhand? She’s not enamoured with the term. There are connotations. So, though it is not, strictly speaking, official Depop brand language, she has landed on a different phrase. “We say …

At a time when elders try hard to cope with their empty nests, a few youngsters lead the way by taking the initiative to show their parents the world they brought them into! You may not remember dipping your little feet in the ocean for the first time or your …

These types of trips, promising to make you work through the day and make sure you party harder at night, fall under the “wellness tourism” banner. But few places have managed to push both the wellness and party side to its limits more than W Hotels with their aptly named …

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Stacy Brown-Philpot became chief executive of TaskRabbit in 2016 This past week California voted in a new law designed to pave the way for gig economy workers to become full employees. That’s a massive deal for the companies offering that kind of work. Stacy …

Filling up her online shopping cart with dresses, jeans and heels after another stressful day in the office, Holly Draper felt her anxieties instantly melt away. “The rush was huge,” admits Holly, 28, a communications executive from London. Nothing could match that feeling of spending money on something with just …

A young solicitor’s claims against her Managing Partner for wrongful dismissal, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, post-termination victimisation and holiday pay have been dismissed by an Employment Tribunal. Permanent reporting restrictions were imposed when she lost her claim, prohibiting RollOnFriday from identifying the claimant ‘Lucy’, the Managing Partner ‘Percy’, or the firm.  …

My parents are dead now, and I think about them both every day. They loved the cinema, and would go all the time as a young couple. My mum had a crush on the young Marlon Brando after seeing him in On The Waterfront and as Mark Antony in Julius …

Jane Lawlor is giving me a tour of her Essex hotel. ‘Most of our suites come with views of the pool or the rolling fields of the Brentwood countryside, and our evening turn-down service includes lighting flameless candles and leaving luxury pillow treats,’ she says, handing me a glass of …