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• With a $450,000 angel investment from earlier this year, BeCause has raised $2.6 million (€2.4M) to date.
• In an era of heightened consumer scrutiny and regulatory compliance, BeCause enables hotels, travel brands and marketplaces to streamline, simplify and reduce the costs of managing their sustainability data.
• "We're very excited about BeCause's ability to improve sustainability data collection and reporting for the hospitality and tourism industries.
• By adopting the BeCause platform, hospitality, travel and tourism brands can responsibly capitalize on this demand.

• The Board of Directors of Swiss Prime Site will propose Detlef Trefzger for election to the Board at the Annual General Meeting on 19 March 2024.
• I am delighted to propose Detlef to our shareholders for election to the Board of Directors.»
  Christopher Chambers has decided not to stand for re-election to the Board of Directors of Swiss Prime Site at the upcoming Annual General Meeting.
• Christopher Chambers has been a member of Board of Directors since 2009.
• Ton Büchner said: «Christopher has been a very knowledgeable and highly dedicated member of the board.

• Several thousand passengers were stranded at airports, hotels and connection depots following the recent system-wide glitch of the UK air traffic control systems.
• So what was the glitch and how did it create so much chaos?
• The problems appear to have been caused by unusual data in a flight plan submitted into the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) system by a French airline.
• But, in my experience as a researcher of management, managers further up the chain can often pay more attention to immediate threats.
• They may therefore underestimate the impact of accumulated errors, or may not have enough time to monitor them.

Bigger picture

• “This system should be designed to reject data that’s incorrect, not to collapse,” Walsh explained.
• Lundgren said a review of the situation should determine whether NATs is “really fit for purpose, not only on the systems but on the technology, on the staffing levels”.
• Another point to bear in mind: many senior managers – particularly at chief executive and managing director level – are not necessarily technicians.
• Unfortunately, as long as the glitch is not salient and the machine still works, people usually ignore it.

Next steps

• But managers and authorities should also offer replacement flights, coupons or other objects of comparable value as compensation.
• Managers have been improving communication between technicians and non-technicians and should be praised for this change in attitudes.
• The risk for the industry is that passengers affected by the problems may look to alternative forms of transport in the future.

• BeCause will collect data on hotels certified according to 33 recognized Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC) standards and integrate that data into the easyJet holidays system.
• That sustainability data will help inform the tour operator's "eco-certified" hotel collection.
• BeCause's sustainability data management solution replaces easyJet holidays' current manual update processes.
• Under the new partnership, hotel sustainability data will be automatically updated in the easyJet holidays database, ensuring that users and travelers always have up-to-date sustainability information about eco-certified accommodation options.