#Humanizing hotel brands during COVID-19 could encourage tourists to return

“#Humanizing hotel brands during COVID-19 could encourage tourists to return” Credit: University of East Anglia Hotels should build an emotional attachment with tourists when communicating during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic if they are to encourage them to return, according to new research. The study finds that crisis communication emphasizing shared emotional responses to…

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#How to keep supply chains moving during a catastrophe

“#How to keep supply chains moving during a catastrophe” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers in the University at Buffalo School of Management have developed a new framework to make supply chains more resilient during a crisis like COVID-19. Recently published in IEEE Engineering Management Journal, the study analyzed how consumer panic buying and hoarding led…

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#Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits

“#Telework mostly benefits white, affluent Americans – and offers few climate benefits” by Cutler J Cleveland, Alicia Zhang, Jacqueline Ashmore and Taylor Dudley, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2020/teleworkmost.jpg” data-sub-html=”A number of occupations are not suited for telework and are not distributed evenly across the U.S. population. Credit: Cutler Cleveland/Boston University, CC BY” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/teleworkmost.jpg”> <figure><img…

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#Microfinance loans could spell disaster in the time of coronavirus

“#Microfinance loans could spell disaster in the time of coronavirus” by Vincent Guermond, Laurie Parsons, Nithya Joseph and Nithya Natarajan, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2020/microfinance.jpg” data-sub-html=”A microfinance borrower and debt bonded worker extracts raw silk from cocoons in a small production unit in South India. Credit: Devika Raman, Author provided” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/microfinance.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”Microfinance loans…

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#UK’s Modern Slavery Act challenging for universities

“#UK’s Modern Slavery Act challenging for universities” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The UK’s universities are struggling to live up to the spirit and ambition of the Modern Slavery Act, hampered by poor oversight of their supply chains, a lack of skills and resource in supply chain management, a focus on reducing costs, and lackluster engagement…

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#Women’s burden increases in COVID-19 era

“#Women’s burden increases in COVID-19 era” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The triple burden endured by women in productive, reproductive, and community roles has been exposed and intensified due to COVID-19-enforced lockdown and quarantine restrictions. Rsearchers conducted interviews with women from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Australia that highlight intersections between COVID-19 and gendered burdens, particularly…

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#World facing bankruptcy time bomb: study

“#World facing bankruptcy time bomb: study” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Governments around the world are scrambling to save companies battered by coronavirus lockdowns but the world is nevertheless facing a massive surge in bankruptcies by a third, a study conducted by a trade insurance firm said Monday. “COVID-19 is creating an insolvency time bomb,” said…

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