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The case for investing in the regional airline industry
Posted on: 4 March 2014
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This report from the European Regions Airline Association aims to promote the investment case for the regional aviation industry and to demonstrate why there is a sound business rationale for investing in or lending against regional jets and turboprops. The report shows how regional airlines, operating smaller aircraft, have become an integral part of the world’s aviation infrastructure without which major airlines would lose a significant portion of their feeder traffic.
Regional International
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This bi-monthly journal from the European Regions Airline Association aims to ensure that its readers are up-to-date with the ever-changing European aviation community. Regular columns provide authoritative reporting and coverage of the latest legislative and regulatory developments and expert comment analyses their impact on the sector.
Future Spaces Foundation
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The Future Spaces Foundation is an independent panel of experts that aims to explore how we can create social and economic opportunity through transforming spaces.
Nation rent
Posted on: 4 March 2014
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The report by housing experts Natalie Elphicke and Calum Mercer of Million Homes, Million Lives, warns of “permanent structural change” in the UK housing market, saying that on current trends by 2033, owner occupation could be as low as 55 per cent, falling to below 50 per cent by 2041. However, the authors flag up strongly that these trends fly in the face of what people want. The report draws on evidence showing that the desire to own a property is as strong as ever with only 3 per cent of people choose long-term renting as their first choice. The report advocates a revolution in the financing of house-building and home ownership, urging sweeping changes designed to encourage the big insurance companies and finance houses to invest in long-term property portfolios that actively promote and enable people to buy the homes that they live in.
The retail sector
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The House of Commons Business Skills and Innovations Committee launched its Inquiry into the retail sector in the Spring of 2013, in response to the Business, Innovation and Skills Retail Strategy, which was published in October 2012. It outlined the Department’s support for the retail sector, at international, European, national and local levels. The Department then published a further Report, A Strategy for Future Retail in October 2013. The Committee’s inquiry asked for written comments on the initial Strategy. However, it received limited evidence concerning international and European retail issues; the bulk of the written and oral evidence concentrated on national issues. Furthermore, the majority of those who contributed to the inquiry wrote in detail about the burden of Business Rates. The Committee’s reports therefore concentrate primarily on the issue of Business Rates, in the context of the retail sector. The Committee argues that the high street landscape is evolving and is likely to involve a more diverse mix of use, with housing, leisure, office, retail, and community space, with an urgent review of Business Rates for retail premises being an important consideration. The Committee also considered issues around the Portas Review and the High Street.
European corporate travel: Trends to watch
Posted on: 4 March 2014
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A presentation on how the recovering economy, advances in travel technology and other key market dynamics are transforming the European travel marketplace.
Million Homes Million Lives
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Million Homes, Million Lives is a not-for-profit company which aims to work with housing associations, councils, investors and property specialists to bring to life the ambition to deliver a housing market that everyone can be part of.
Resilient Urbanism
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Resilient Urbanism is a collaborative blog that seeks to explore a wide spectrum of topics related to what makes resilience in urban contexts unique: housing and land challenges, equity, density, governance, construction markets, and other characteristics related to the unpredictable and ever-changing urban environment. Therefore, blog posts will represent multiple disciplines and attempt to describe resilient urbanism through a variety of scales and time frames.
National biodiversity climate change vulnerability model
Posted on: 3 March 2014
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The National Biodiversity Climate Change Vulnerability Model (NBCCVM) aims to provide a spatially explicit assessment of the relative vulnerability of priority habitats based on established climate change adaptation principles; suite of map-based-GIS outputs at a variety of scales which can be used (in conjunction with other relevant spatial data) to target action to build biodiversity resilience and a flexible, GIS based, decision support tool that allows the user to incorporate locally specific datasets and select how adaptation principles are combined to reflect local circumstances and priorities.
Proposal for a Council recommendation on European Tourism Quality Principles
Posted on: 3 March 2014
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The European Commission has proposed a set of voluntary European Tourism Quality Principles to ensure that tourists travelling to other Member States or visiting Europe continent from third countries will get value for their money. These principles cover four main areas: staff training under the supervision of a quality coordinator, consumer satisfaction to ensure that tourist can rely on handling of their complaints, cleanliness and maintenance, and correctness and reliability of information in at least the most relevant foreign language. Such access to reliable and up-to-date information on the quality of tourism services enables tourists to differentiate among competing products, to make an informed choice and to overcome linguistic difficulties. Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) will find it easier to emphasize that they are providing a high quality service by sticking to the principles. The proposal will therefore help SMEs which make up over 90% of the EU tourism sector.
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