Que feront les partis de l’opposition dans la tentative de contrecarrer le Mouvement Socialiste Militant (MSM) de Pravind Jugnauth ? C’est la question que se posent plusieurs observateurs politiques en ce moment. Les jours qui se suivront seront décisifs pour évaluer la stratégie politique de l’opposition. D’ailleurs, Paul Bérenger a annoncé, hier, des développements qui surviendront à l’issue du Bureau Politique, qui se réuni, ce lundi après-midi. Il a fait cette annonce, lors de l’Assemblée des délégués de son parti, au Plaza, à Rose-Hill.
« Seki pou ensam pou ensam. Seki pa pou la, pa pou la », a-t-il soutenu.
Que veut-t-il dire ? Selon l’un des observateurs politiques, c’est une mise en garde lancé à ceux qui devront être sacrifiés au profit de la future alliance PTr-PMSD-MMM.
Si cela se confirme prochainement, « plusieurs démissions seront à prévoir au sein de ces trois partis.» L’autre grand perdant se nomme Nando Bodha, qui ne serait pas vu comme un « assets » pour Navin Ramgoolam. Il risque de se retrouver seul, tout comme Roshi Bhadain, hors de cette configuration « galactique ».
En revanche, des rumeurs circulent à l’effet que Bruneau Laurette aurait quitté les instances du Linion Pep Morisien (LPM). Dans une publication sur sa page Facebook, il l’a démentie, tout en disant qu’ « il prend congé du parti pendant quelques jours. »
Opposition : casse-tête pour Ramgoolam, Bérenger et Duval dans les jours à venir
Our Deep Dive stories are the cornerstone of Skift’s journalism. Meticulous reporting. Smart analysis. Great writing. All packaged and designed in ways to keep you glued to the story. Here’s a few of our favorites over the past 10 years.
Tom Lowry
Since its launch a decade ago, Skift has defined its journalism by offering exhaustively reported and unique insights that go beyond daily news cycle coverage. We deliver up-to-the-minute stories, of course, but the enterprise stories that we call Deep Dives are at the core of Skift’s mission to deliver to our readers essential analysis about the business of travel.
We’ve published countless Deep Dives over our 10 years. To help you celebrate our anniversary, we are resharing a few of our favorites.
2012
Priceline to Buy Kayak for $1.8 Billion and Keep Kayak Brand: This ends the short life of Kayak as a public company — it just finished its first post-IPO quarter. Priceline will gain a great online and mobile team to build its portfolio and will put muscle behind the Kayak brand.
Airbnb’s growing pains mirrored in New York City, where half its listings are illegal rentals: One would hope that a company that has the ears of both the youngest and the most affluent travelers would take its responsibilities seriously: Not only by the way they handle the legal side of the issue, but also in how they lead the conversation in addressing the questions that these laws raise.
Exclusive: BBC Is Selling Lonely Planet to Kentucky cigarette billionaire Brad Kelley : This sale is a headscratcher, but BBC was keen on finding a buyer and looks like Kelley is the most price-elastic buyer it could find. Remains to be seen how the travel market and LP’s shrinking-but-loyal userbase responds to this sale. American Airlines-US Airways Merger Timeline Blog: American Airlines and US Airways confirmed their merger on February 14, 2013. We paid close attention to developments at American Airlines and its merger with US Airways from the start. You can follow the process in reverse-chronological order.
The Five Angel Investors Who Rule the World of Travel Startups : Ask anyone who the most successful investor in travel is, and they’ll talk about Joel Cutler of General Catalyst Partners. But, when it comes to individual investors, this gang of five has a lot of experience and is pretty good. None are infallible, of course, but this is where a lot of the smart money is.
Amazon to Get Into Hotel Booking With Launch of Travel Site : Well this is bound to be interesting. Amazon appears to be going it alone to launch its own travel service for independent hotels in drive markets. Amazon has huge marketing power, but don’t expect Amazon Travel to turn the hotel industry on its head any time soon.
The U.S. Airline Pilots Who Barely Make Minimum Wage : Market forces eventually will have to force improvements in regional airlines’ pilot wages. And mainline airline partners are going to have to kick in some money for pilot training, and ensure that lowly paid regional pilots will find an easier path to the big payday at major airlines.
2016
The Definitive Oral History of Online Travel: Two decades after the birth of online travel, more than two dozen founders and key players exclusively tell Skift how it all happened.
Complete Oral History of Boutique Hotels : Nearly 40 years after the birth of the boutique hotels movement in the U.S., more than two dozen founders and key players exclusively tell Skift how it all happened in this 60,000 word deep dive into how it transformed the way we travel.
The Future of Travel Booking: The world of online travel booking has undergone more radical changes in the past 18 months than any time since it changed the world of travel booking in the late 1990s. With metasearch evolving, veterans like Travelocity slipping away, and emerging powers in Latin America, China, and Russia, it’s more important that ever to hear what the leaders of these companies think.
Resetting Transatlantic Travel : With the departure of the UK from the EU, the growth of low-cost carriers like Norwegian Air, multiple violent acts in major European cities, and the rise of neo-isolationism in the United States and European countries, it’s indeed a year of large-scale shifts for the most popular region in the world for tourism.
2018
The Evolution of the Hotel Front Desk: Even consumers who embrace technology may worry that companies are exploiting them through so-called personalization. Hoteliers need to balance digital ingenuity with a human touch.
For the Long Haul: Skift Turns 6 : Of all the achievements anyone can ask of a company from its infancy, staying power — mere survival — is the toughest of them. Let no one tell you otherwise. Make it a media startup in an age of existential crisis in media all around, and you’ve created the biggest odds against yourself right from the start. Six years into the serpentine journey of building Skift — 2,191 days after launch — we are still here and intend to be here for a long, long time.
2019
The Rise of Smart Airports : After years of being stuck in the past, new “smart” airports are embracing technology and data to improve the experience for both passengers and vendors. But progress is still slow, widening the gap between cutting-edge and archaic facilities. What’s needed? More vision, less bureaucracy.
Google Maps Is Ready to Transform the World of Superapps: A Skift Deep Dive: Consumers in the West reach almost reflexively for the Google Maps app as the service becomes a nearly ubiquitous utility despite a dearth of messaging and payments. Whether it evolves into the next superapp may depend on whether users really want a do-everything app and the mood of regulators seeking to break up big tech.
The Complicated Business of Saving Elephant Tourism: Given the complexity of Asian elephant tourism, it’s natural for rifts to form. A lot of people want to do the right thing, but there are many issues that are still up in the air — and a lot of business is at stake.
2020
Hotels and the Human Trafficking Problem : Human trafficking touches every corner of the travel industry — especially hotels. And while the accommodations sector didn’t create the problem, it does have an elevated responsibility to put an end to it. The question is: How effective have the industry’s efforts been so far?
2021
The Lasting Impact of a Year With No Cruises : The world’s three largest cruise lines are desperate to stop their $60 billion financial bleed. Destinations have experienced life without megaships for more than year. Is this the end of mass cruising as we knew it or can cruise lines find a place in a more balanced and diversified tourism economy?
Oral History of March 2020: The Month Global Travel Shut Down : March 2020 will go down in history as the month that travel screeched to a halt when a global pandemic was declared. This oral history is a collection of voices from across the travel industry of those sharing their personal stories of pain, shock — and of resilience.
Puerto Rico’s Recovery Offers These Lessons for Global Tourism : Puerto Rico tourism, bolstered by Airbnb when hotels were shut, has had a noteworthy comeback. But if travel and living have blended, then the island’s fiscal and political woes can’t be overlooked.
Chaque séance du Conseil de Beau-Bassin/Rose-Hill apporte son lot d’escarmouches et d’expulsions. La dernière réunion qui s’est déroulée mercredi n’a pas dérogé à la règle. Fidèles à leur réputation de railleurs, les élus bleu Olivier Barbe, Gilwyn L’assiette, Zaed Nanhuck et Arnaud Poinoosawmy ont protesté avec véhémence contre le voyage de l’adjoint au maire…
A European business leader group has spoken out during the hotel group’s latest Masters of Travel gathering. Their views cement several trends that have been picking up pace since the pandemic began.
Matthew Parsons
A sizeable reduction in corporate travel, relative to 2019 levels, will become a permanent feature across Europe, Accor has warned.
The hotel giant has predicted 20 percent of business meetings have gone forever in a report published Monday, “to be replaced by virtual equivalents or the realization that they simply weren’t necessary in the first place.”
The new report forms part of Accor’s Master of Travel series, which recently convened business leaders responsible for corporate travel to share their take on future demand.
The consensus was the number of trips would be down by a fifth, compared to pre-pandemic levels, for 2022. One leader even predicted a decline of 50 percent.
The report cites two key reasons: an uptick in meeting technology, and a reevaluation of what constitutes a “business critical” trip.
An Altered Landscape
For business travelers, hybrid meetings are part of any talks about the future, according to Sophie Hulgard, Accor’s senior vice president for sales, Northern Europe, who co-hosted the event in Frankfurt. The ability to run meetings virtually or with hybrid technology is prized by business leaders — which will come as a relief for some event tech firms.
However, while fewer trips are forecast, Accor predicted travelers will “linger longer” and also increasingly shun hotels that fail to prove their green credentials.
“A one-night stay is now considered a premium and we encourage our workers to see if they can achieve more by staying longer,” one panelist said. Leaders’ names weren’t disclosed, but they represented the technology, finance, professional services, entertainment and pharmaceutical sectors.
More trips will also be merged into vacations in the future, they found.
Accor said a new “linger longer” trend was increasingly a factor for business travel, with one delegate explaining that “meeting four or five clients as opposed to one or two means fewer trips and less carbon”. That sentiment echoes views from as early as 2020, with growing numbers of companies calling time on the one-day business trip.
However, the report noted there was still a “compelling need” for face-to-face meetings, with Accor’s own research revealing that workers expect to make 25 percent more revenue through face-to-face meetings than virtual ones.
Greenwashing Backlash
Meanwhile, the leaders argued any business trip now needed to justify its carbon cost. “Offsetting is no longer enough, and our hotel partners need to prove they are actively reducing our footprint,” said one. Another delegate said if a supplier made false environmental claims, “the backlash will be huge.”
“Hotels without a clear green or target-based sustainable program won’t be considered as suppliers,” said another, with the panelists wanting third parties to validate suppliers’ green initiatives for peace of mind.
One leader also said that their company will switch to a carbon budget instead of a financial budget in 2023. Carbon budgets, alongside carbon penalties, could become commonplace over the coming years.
“… The future of business travel must banish inconsequential trips and replace them with business-critical travel that is sustainably planned and delivers for the employee, the employer and the planet,” said Accor’s Hulgard.
Malgré tous vos efforts pour faire baisser votre facture d’électricité, cette dernière ne cesse d’afficher un montant exorbitant. Vous êtes-vous déjà demandé d’où venait cette hausse ? Une chose est sûre, ce n’est pas votre climatiseur.
Ces appareils électriques qui font grimper la facture d’électricité
Lorsqu’il fait chaud, les climatiseurs tournent à plein régime. Ceci a un impact élevé sur les factures d’électricité des ménages qui voient ces dernières gonfler et afficher des montants exorbitants. Mais il est inutile de blâmer le climatiseur.
Nos appareils électroménagers, devenus trop nombreux et de plus en plus performants, contribuent à l’augmentation de notre facture d’électricité. Du robot-cuiseur au four à micro-ondes, en passant par la bouilloire, les appareils électriques et électroménagers connectés sont nombreux et envahissent le quotidien des Français.
Il est difficile de concevoir l’idée de s’en passer tant ces appareils sont devenus nécessaires à notre vie de tous les jours. Ils permettent de réaliser un gain de temps prodigieux et offrent plus d’autonomie aux individus. Ainsi, une personne qui souhaite ranger et nettoyer sa maison mettra moins de temps que prévu en utilisant des appareils électriques. Pendant qu’elle lira un livre sur sa tablette allongée sur son fauteuil massant, ses appareils lavent la vaisselle et les vêtements, cuisent le repas, balaient le sol et lavent les vitres.
Voici l’appareil qui fait grimper la facture d’électricité
Réfrigérateur. Source : spm
Le climatiseur n’est pas le seul appareil responsable de cette augmentation des charges. Un autre appareil que nous utilisons tous les jours, représente l’une des plus importantes sources de dépenses énergétiques des foyers dans le monde. Il est pratique, robuste et nécessaire à la vie de tous les jours. Lorsqu’il faut s’en procurer, le ménage n’hésite pas à comparer les prix, les performances, la capacité et même les performances énergétiques sur le marché. Mais, bien que vous mettiez tout en œuvre pour acquérir l’appareil le moins énergivore, votre facture d’électricité ne cesse d’augmenter et cela vous exaspère fortement. Vous êtes à la recherche de conseils pour réduire vos dépenses et désirez adopter des gestes simples mais à fort impact ? Il vous faudra identifier la source du problème.
Parmi les appareils qui consomment le plus d’énergie au quotidien, l’on citera le réfrigérateur, la machine à laver, le congélateur et le lave-vaisselle. Il est en permanence allumé, les portes s’ouvrent régulièrement, ce qui contribue à augmenter le montant de la note d’électricité. Il n’est éteint que lors d’une session de nettoyage complète.
Pour réaliser des économies d’énergie, pensez à bien lire son étiquette-énergie et vous doter d’un réfrigérateur de classe A au minimum, économ. Un réfrigérateur qui tombe en panne ou qui ne rafraîchit pas suffisamment ne serait qu’une source de gaspillage énergétique. Réduire les factures et sa consommation énergétique est devenu une priorité pour tous.
Économies d’énergie. Source : spm
Pour réduire sa facture d’électricité adoptez les bons gestes !
Certains appareils ne doivent pas nécessairement rester allumés en permanence. L’on peut éteindre certains appareils pour réduire la consommation du foyer, débrancher le radiateur si ce n’est pas nécessaire, installer des rideaux plus épais pour retenir la chaleur à l’intérieur des pièces à vivre, débrancher les chargeurs de téléphones lorsqu’ils ne sont pas utilisés ainsi que la multiprise, utiliser des ampoules basse consommation, se renseigner sur les énergies renouvelables et éviter d’acheter ou d’utiliser les appareils gourmands en énergie. Par ailleurs, privilégier les appareils qui se mettent automatiquement en mode veille lorsqu’ils ne sont pas utilisés pendant une longue durée.
Ces quelques gestes peuvent contribuer à limiter la consommation énergétique d’un foyer. Il est important d’adopter les bons réflexes.
As the metaverse takes shape, travel brands are exploring how they can unlock the potential of emerging applications for these virtual worlds to create innovative ways for travelers to discover new destinations, experiences, meeting venues, and lodging options.
Meta
Is your travel brand ready for the metaverse? While the vision of a fully immersive virtual world may seem distant, we’re already experiencing aspects of the metaverse in our daily lives today, including applications supported by augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). Anyone who has played smartphone games, used fun AR effects and filters on Instagram, or even placed virtual furniture in their apartment using an app has tiptoed into the early metaverse.
“We believe the metaverse will be the biggest opportunity for modern business since the creation of the internet,” said Colleen Coulter, head of industry for Meta. “It will be especially valuable to the travel industry, which is driven by immersive, meaningful, and sensory-filled experiences — all characteristics that lend themselves extremely well to what the metaverse offers.”
What Exactly Is the Metaverse?
At its core, the metaverse comprises a variety of digital spaces that can connect people, businesses, and creators who aren’t in the same physical space. Ultimately, the metaverse isn’t likely to become a separate, parallel reality. It will more likely evolve as an integration into our everyday lives, much like the mobile internet and the online world before it.
When it comes to travel, the metaverse may be able to deliver some of the sights and sounds of a place, but experiences like inhaling the salty ocean air, tasting a local dish, hiking to a waterfall, or shaking hands with a new friend will always be better in person.
“The metaverse isn’t about replacing in-person experiences,” Coulter said. “It’s about making what we do online better and more meaningful. It will enhance the feeling of being close to one another, regardless of physical distance, like teleporting a friend or family member who is unable to travel to join your safari in South Africa.”
According to Coulter, lesser-known destinations will be able to attract more visitors by helping people “test out” the destination via augmented or virtual reality, and travel attractions will be enhanced with new immersive experiences, such as enabling someone who is visiting ancient ruins to envision a bustling town square.
“Many experiences in the metaverse won’t be fully realized for five to 10 years, but it’s critical that travel brands start building the muscle now to quickly adapt to new technologies as they become available,” Coulter said.
Building the Metaverse Muscle
While the metaverse continues to take shape, there’s plenty of room for travel brands to experiment with its applications today. By connecting with customers where they are and exploring emerging formats like AR and VR, forward-looking travel companies can develop innovative and creative ways to promote discovery.
“Businesses are using our tools to build more brand love and get closer to their customers, which is critical at a time when traveler loyalty is up for grabs,” Coulter said. “Travel brands can use AR filters to help travelers envision themselves in a new destination, at a resort, or in a premium airline cabin, tapping into travelers’ wanderlust. They can also develop non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to reward their most loyal customers with limited edition digital art or access to unique experiences. To enhance existing travel experiences, they can use spatial audio or immersive visuals to serve as a virtual concierge, offering tours around select cities.”
Within VR, Coulter said, “travel brands will be able to take the level of immersion one step farther to allow travelers to truly step into a new experience, be it exploring an oceanside resort, speaking face to face with a travel advisor while miles apart, or participating in an exclusive concert.”
Partnering With Creators
One relatively easy way for travel brands to start piloting innovative, shareable metaverse experiences is to partner with content creators who are already using Meta’s platforms, whether short-form video on Instagram Reels, AR experiences through the Spark AR Studio, or interactive applications on Horizon Worlds, where creators and brands can build unique virtual spaces, interactive experiences, and immersive games.
Travel brands can work with a third party to build a custom “world” within Horizon Worlds — and they can leverage a thriving community of over 25,000 creators who are innovating with the technology today. Recently launched Meta Horizon Worlds experiences from well-known brands demonstrate how these creators are helping brands inspire and engage with customers.
Leveraging the Spark AR platform is another immediate way for travel brands to experiment metaverse activations. Earlier this year, several Spark creators collaborated on Coachellaverse, a virtual gateway to the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, producing innovative AR effects that generated more than 100,000 opens on Instagram (scan the QR codes below for two examples).
“We know that many consumers trust the voices of creators, even more so than brands,” Coulter said. “This level of trust will likely continue into the metaverse, making them a key partner to help brands connect with travelers through authenticity, creativity, and relevance.”
A Shared Vision for the Future
Meta is sharing its early thinking and imagining what the future of the metaverse might look like so it can co-create an inspiring vision with its partners in the travel industry.
“We expect the investments we’ve made over the years in communities, creators, and commerce will be crucial components of the metaverse,” Coulter said. “The more we can help travel brands succeed across those spheres today, the more we can help them be successful in the future. ”
Travel brands taking their first steps into the metaverse should view it as an extension of and a complement to the work they already know how to do best — building deeper connections, lasting relationships, and better travel experiences.
“We know people place tremendous weight on the travel decisions they make given the precious time and money they dedicate to travel,” Coulter said. “The metaverse will empower people to make more informed decisions to make the most of their travel experiences.”
Learn more about how you can get started in the metaverse here.
This content was created collaboratively by Meta and Skift’s branded content studio, SkiftX.
