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5 surprising ways drinking coffee can boost your work performance

Lisa Mulcahy Food & Beverage

Coffee — you love it, you need it — you may be drinking a cup right now as you read this. You know caffeine makes you feel more alert and revved up to work — but there are surprising ways coffee can actually boost your performance on essential tasks if you consume it strategically. Try these science-based tips and tricks to be at your best with the help of that cup of joe.

The total travel experience is the way to win loyalty

Linchi Kwok Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

Since bigger isn’t better, tourism companies are finding ways to offer travelers the "total travel experience" to win more loyal customers. Almost every operator in the tourism industry is trying to win more loyal customers with a bigger loyalty program. Yet, when it comes to development projects in retail and lodging business, investors favor boutique stores and hotels. What can tourism companies do, then, to win "big" without tying up their investments in big assets? A good number of companies have found solutions through service integration and new partnerships.

Travel2020: Puerto Rico welcomes rising wave of tourism 2 years after Hurricane…

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

Puerto Rico is on the rebound. Discover Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico's first-ever Destination Marketing Organization (DMO), recently announced that 2019 Q1 lodging demand is now on par with 2017 Q1 levels just 14 months after Hurricane Maria, signaling an unprecedented pace of recovery for a destination. Discover Puerto Rico set a short-term goal to drive a record pace for recovery and reach pre-Maria levels by the hurricane's two-year anniversary. Based on the 2019 Q1 results, Discover Puerto Rico has achieved this goal much sooner than anticipated, proving itself as one of the Island's first successes of privatization.

How successful women avoid burnout: You need a tribe

Terri Williams Business Management, Services & Risk Management

Achieving success is a praiseworthy feat that usually requires a certain level of sacrifice. But women may pay an additional price for their career achievements. Research reveals that women are more likely than men to suffer from depression. This could be related to the stress of balancing work and family responsibilities, feeling isolated at work, and/or a host of other reasons. Many successful women end up experiencing burnout, but is it necessary to choose between your career goals and your health and happiness?

Horror stories from the GPS

Cindy Belt Recreation & Leisure

I don’t know if everyone has a name for their GPS system. Over the years, we programmed all of ours to use a female voice and call it "GPS Lady" when we are feeling generous. There are other times where we are less generous. The mixture of technology and an RV pulling a car can bring about some chilling stories. Even buying a GPS specifically designed for RVs hasn’t stopped all the problems. Here are some of our stories or ones we have heard.

Before you plan your next trip, take a look at Mobility-as-a-Service

Bambi Majumdar Transportation Technology & Automotive

We can't think of life without Netflix. What if there was a Netflix of transportation to change the way we travel? As fantastic as that may sound, it's already happening and we should get ready to sit back and enjoy the ride. A new McKinsey & Company report states that the future of U.S. urban transportation lies in Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS). Rapid population growth and expanding urban spaces are leading to increased pollution and road congestion. New-age mobility possibilities can provide some solutions to combat these issues by offering means of alternative transportation.

You can do these things in your sleep

Lisa Mulcahy Medical & Allied Healthcare

You never go to bed early because you're trying to get stuff accomplished, right? Rethink that strategy. Science is proving that your brain is surprisingly good at multitasking while you sleep — and your body functions at a surprisingly energetic level, too. Here are just a few of the surprising things you can do in your sleep. Your mental and physical health will thank you for these!

Teens and noise-induced hearing loss: Educating to a growing problem

Sheilamary Koch Education

Young people love loud music, and they’re not alone. As adults, how many of us take the edge off a long rush hour commute by blasting music in the car? Or motivate ourselves at the gym or while working around the house by listening to tunes on our personal stereo system? The attraction to loud music is of increasing concern to audiologists, who are seeing more cases of hearing loss linked to noise at younger ages.

6 soccer drills to teach players to improve their agility

Tim Frechette Sports & Fitness

For soccer players, agility is a vital characteristic, almost equal to speed and strength. Developing better agility is not that difficult and does not require a lot of workout tools. We’ve put together our favorite six drills to improve soccer agility. With these drills, you’ll be well on your way to improving your agility. The best part is that each of these drills requires minimal workout gear and not a lot of time.

Travel2020: Finding your inner Buddha at 30,000 feet

Lark Gould Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

A 2013 survey by Carlson Wagonlit Travel said it all when it comes to measuring the toll that travel takes on today’s road warriors. CWT found that travelers can experience stress for as much as "6.9 hours per trip." Sadly, the intervening years have not been kind to business travelers, either. A global study released in March by IHG reported that business travelers lose some 58 minutes of sleep per night while away. While many of the factors that contribute to this particularly insidious strain of stress cannot be helped, there are a few tricks and tips one can apply to one’s travels and daily navigations that can make anyone’s journey through life a little more bearable.

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