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Starbucks shares slide after coffee chain says sales fell again, suspends outlook
Starbucks cups are pictured on a counter in Manhattan, New York, on Feb. 16, 2022. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Starbucks on Tuesday posted preliminary quarterly results, which showed its sales fell again as the coffee chain tries to execute a turnaround. “Our fourth quarter performance makes it clear that we need to fundamentally change our […]
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‘Swicy’ items take over restaurant menus as Gen Z seeks heat
A general view of atmosphere during ‘Sonic Desert’ presented by Coca-Cola Spiced and Topo Chico in partnership with BPM Music on April 13, 2024 in Thermal, California. Randy Shropshire | Getty Images The hottest food and drink trend this year isn’t just spicy — it’s also sweet. “Swicy,” a portmanteau of sweet and spicy, has […]
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He’s British, she’s Australian. Here’s their trick to traveling 10,000 miles — with kids in tow
I’m proud to call the tiny sugarcane farming community of Ingham, Australia, my hometown. It boasts blue skies, sandy beaches and Australia’s longest single-drop waterfall. But its location — at the northern end of the state of Queensland — is a problem for me. Lured by the desire to explore Europe, I left for London […]
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‘They want something different’: Two new reports predict a big shift in travel behavior in 2025
The biggest travel trend of 2022 was to go big, spend big — with people eagerly booking bucket list-style trips to places like Bali, Rome, London and Paris. But two new reports show travelers are now in a very different headspace. Trend reports from Expedia and Booking.com show vacationers are forgoing splashy trips to global […]
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Starbucks taps former Chipotle executive as global chief brand officer
Tressie Lieberman, the incoming global chief brand officer at Starbucks. Courtesy: Starbucks Starbucks has tapped Chipotle alum Tressie Lieberman as its global chief brand officer, a newly created position and the latest executive change under Brian Niccol after he left Chipotle and took over as CEO of the coffee chain last month. In Niccol’s first […]
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Overtourism: It’s not the tourists — it’s local ‘lack of management,’ says sustainability expert
Crowded beaches. Expensive rent. Tourist sites with wall-to-wall people. When it comes to overtourism, don’t blame the travelers, said Randy Durband, CEO of the Global Sustainable Tourism Council. Rather, it’s “lack of management,” he told “Squawk Box Asia” Monday. “I’ve been in travel and tourism for 40 years, working on committees and trade associations […]
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Protesters in Spain told tourists to ‘go home.’ Instead more arrived.
On July 6, thousands of anti-tourism protesters marched through the streets of Barcelona, shouting: “Tourists go home!” A little more than a month later, Spain’s tourism board sent a mass email with a different message: “Spain: the summer you’ll want to repeat every year … We can’t wait to see you!” Tourists caught in the […]
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He flies business and first class multiple times a year — all on credit card points
For most travelers, flying in business and first class, especially on international flights, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A business class ticket can cost up to five times more than an economy ticket on Singapore Airlines — and a whopping 13 times more for a first-class one. As a result, these cabins are often booked by […]
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‘She doesn’t stop talking’: How extroverts unknowingly irritate fellow travelers
My husband — a brooding New Yorker, polite and tolerant of much — broke on the seventh day of our family vacation. “She doesn’t stop talking,” he said. The “she“ is my mother — a bubbly Midwesterner — who can hold court in a room of strangers with the deftness of a small-town politician at […]
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Chinese travelers trickle back to a Taiwanese island, mere miles from the mainland
Remnants of military conflict surround Zhang Zhong Jie’s cafe. The coffee shop sits within an abandoned military fortification, its entrance surrounded by rusting tanks. It’s a scene the citizens of Taiwan’s remote Kinmen Island know well. All that separates the cafe from mainland China are 6 miles of choppy water and a row of anti-invasion […]
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