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After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, when travel brands – including Delta Air Lines, Hilton and Enterprise – pronounced their support for diversity and the Black Lives Matter movement, our research group was motivated to conduct a study that collected data of the travel experiences of more than 5,000 Black people and people of color. Our work, published in Afar magazine and Tourism Geographies, found that Black travelers expressed dissatisfaction with how the travel industry promotes itself as inclusive.

Authenticity matters

• We conducted in-depth interviews with several of the people who provided data to us.
• Those we interviewed told us plainly that they are weary of being perceived as a single, uniform entity.
• Joshlyn Crystal Adams, CEO of Urbanista Travel, told us, “It’s definitely more than being Black.
• But the people in our study emphasized the need for brands and destinations to make a greater effort.

Diversity is not a box to check

• In the Jim Crow era, Black travelers were regularly denied access to crucial services such as gas, food, restrooms and lodging.
• Stopping in unfamiliar locations posed the threat of humiliation, threats or worse.
• “If companies want to understand how to be appeasing to our communities, they should go directly to us,” study participant and AfroBuenaventura Transformative Travel founder Ronnell Perry said.

Change the industry from within

• Black individuals hold fewer than 1% of top leadership roles – C-suite, director, CEO/president – in the U.S. hospitality industry, according to a report by Castell Project.
• Over the past decade, consultancies such as McKinsey have made it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially.
• However, change requires taking power from the hands of dominant white, heterosexual, nondisabled and first-world nation groups.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• Altamira’s two flagship programs, AM-401 and AM-411, designed for KRAS-driven cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, serve to demonstrate the technology’s capability to enhance therapeutic efficacy
  HAMILTON, BERMUDA Jan. 8, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Altamira Therapeutics Ltd. ("Altamira" or the "Company") (Nasdaq: CYTO), a company providing nanoparticle-based technology for efficient RNA delivery to extrahepatic targets, announced today that it will be presenting at the 3rd Annual mRNA-Based Therapeutics Summit, being held January 23-25 at the JW Marriott Hotel, Berlin.
• Covadonga Pañeda, Ph.D., the Company's Chief Operating Officer, will give a presentation at the conference titled, "Delivery of therapeutic RNA in inflammation and cancer using peptide-based nanoparticles”.
• “However, even the most powerful mRNA therapeutic is useless if it is not delivered safely and effectively into target cells, which has remained one of the key challenges for non-hepatic targets to date.
• SemaPhore™, Altamira’s peptide-based delivery platform for mRNA, has been successfully tested so far in vivo in models of osteoarthritis (WNT16, DNMT3B), atherosclerosis (p27Kip1), aortic aneurysm (SOD2), and tumor microenvironment (ZBTB46).

• Tokyo, Japan and Cambridge, UK, 21 December 2023 – Sosei Group Corporation (“Sosei Heptares” or “the Company”; TSE: 4565), announces its President & CEO, Chris Cargill, will present at the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
• The presentation will take place in-person at the JW Marriott Hotel, San Francisco Union Square, and via webcast at 1:30pm Pacific Standard Time on Wednesday, 10 January 2024.
• An audio link to the Company’s webcast presentation can be accessed here .
• Presentation slides will be made available through the investor section of the Company’s website, www.soseiheptares.com .

• The W Hollywood is the lone Marriott not included because of outstanding contract issues there.
• Brenda Mendoza, a uniform attendant at the JW Marriott LA Live said, “I am incredibly proud that my coworkers and I fought for this life-changing contract.
• With this latest announcement, a total of twenty Southern California hotels have now signed agreements with UNITE HERE Local 11.
• While Marriott and some Hilton hotels have led the way, other operators like Aimbridge Hospitality continue to refuse to meet the new hotel contract standard.