The Culture of Exchanging Business Cards

As important as one’s attire and presentation is to any business interaction, the exchange of business cards is just as important and far from routine, particularly when interacting with clients and colleagues of other cultures. The business card after all represents you long after the physical meeting has taken place and is integral to the [...]

Information at your finger tips

NBC’s Today Show recently featured five phone numbers that they state will change your life. Here’s one that should be programmed into your cell (if it does not have internet capabilities) for those instances where you need information and you’re not close enough to a computer: Auburn University’s Foy Information Line, 334-844-4244
Students at Auburn University in [...]

Growth of Luxury Hotel Brands at Record High

Travel Mole reports on a new study by PricewaterhouseCoopers that found that 34 new hotel brands were launched from January to October of last year. Of these new brands, 18 are luxury hotels including Baccarat Hotels and Resorts by Starwood Capital Group whose first Baccarat hotel in Wailea, Hawaii, is expected to open in 2010, with others to follow in the Caribbean, [...]

Cultural Sensitivity When Traveling Overseas

The cross-cultural faux pas on the part of Cameron Diaz on her recent trip to Peru has made headlines internationally. According to USA Today, the actress apologized yesterday for carrying a bag with the famous political slogan of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong. The article notes:
The bags are marketed as fashion accessories in some world [...]