Hozpitality.Com- Global Recession….What is Recession?

September 22nd, 2009 DUBAI, UAE - Dubai-based dedicated hospitality job board Hozpitality.com announced the relaunch of its newly designed job board, www.hozpitality.com, in Dubai. The new Hozpitality.com comes with many new features, like RSS feeds, jobs and CVs on email, privacy options, enhanced job search features, enhanced featured company and jobs listings, enhanced search engine optimization (SEO), a travel and booking section, latest hospitality news, and a lot more...

September 2nd, 2009 LONDON - - Frost & Sullivan to Host Analyst Briefing on Automation Services Market during Recession, on Wednesday, 9 September 2009, at 16.00 BST Economic recession has trampled the growth of major control systems and automation products. However, automation services are expected to offer avenues of sustained growth.

July 1st, 2009 DUBAI , United Arab Emirates - Hozpitality.com, region's first dedicated hospitality career website launched "Hozpitalityplus.com" as a part of their expansion program today in Dubai. www.hozpitalityplus.com is region's first dedicated networking portal for global hospitality professionals.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, Britain's biggest union, has launched an online strategy to mobilise members to fight for jobs during the recession and beyond. With the help of Blue State Digital (BSD), the company US President Obama used throughout his presidential campaign, the union is stepping up its e-campaign strategy.

May 12th, 2009 LONDON - A majority of UK businesses view the ability to 'leapfrog' struggling competitors as their key opportunity in the current recession, according to new research by Barclays Commercial examining recessionary behaviour amongst established UK companies*. The Turning the Corner survey, carried out at Barclays Commercial events around the UK, found corporate attitudes remained focused on competition over consolidation as 54% of the 305 business owners and managers questioned viewed the challenges faced by competitors as their key recessionary opportunity, followed by a third (31 per cent) who viewed staff loyalty, retention and productivity as their greatest opportunity during the economic downturn www.barclays.co.uk/commercial/turningthecorner/insight/index.html.

May 4th, 2009 SWINDON, England - Evidence is emerging that the recession is indeed causing couples to split up and this is nowhere more evident than in the figures produced today by one of the UK's leading proponents of cheap divorce - Divorce-Online.co.uk. Managing Director Mark Keenan said, "We have seen a marked increase in people using the service since the end of 2008 and we have had to take on additional staff and office space to cope with the increase in demand for our services." 3000 divorce packages were sold through the website between January and the end of April which is a 30% increase on 2008.

April 7th, 2009 LONDON - Unite, Britain's biggest union, has today issued a stark warning that it will not tolerate employers who attempt to use a credit crunch as an excuse to attack workers' pensions. The warning follows Aon's announcement that it intends to cut its contributions to workers' pensions by up to half.

April 5th, 2009 LONDON - Recession-hit organisations need 'to invest in their best' to boost employee engagement and to lead their company out of recession. Up-skilling is also a key factor when down-sizing, concludes Performance Management Review, a report on the views of 175,000 employees from some of the world's biggest companies, published today by human resources consultancy ETS plc.

March 26th, 2009 LONDON - Press Conference - 10am, Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 - Unite the Union Offices 35 King Street London WC2E 8JG This Tuesday (March 31st) will see the launch of Unite for Jobs, a major drive to secure urgent and strategic assistance for UK manufacturing and a clear plan for defending and creating jobs. The move comes amid mounting concern that government action so far is insufficient to avert chronic and lasting damage to UK manufacturing.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A new survey of consumer trends reveals that people are increasingly looking to enjoy themselves at home as the recession continues to bite. And 45% have declared "We just want to have fun".

May 20th, 2009 SRINAGAR - Global recession has failed to affect Kashmir's tourism industry as more and more tourists continue to throng the valley. According to the players in the tourism industry, many domestic tourists have already cancelled their tours to European countries and are coming to Kashmir valley.

April 23rd, 2009 Barroso: EU must help poor despite recessionBRUSSELS — The European Commission's president says the EU must continue to be the world's primary donor of aid to poor nations despite the global recession. Jose Manuel Barroso says poor countries "are the least responsible for this crisis but among the worst affected." He says the recession "must not, cannot and will not be used as an excuse" for cutting EU aid to developing nations.

March 18th, 2009 JODHPUR - Traders here are performing a ritual in honour of Lakshmi, the Goddess of Wealth, to ward off global recession. The nine-day ritual being held at the central grounds here commenced on Friday and will conclude on March 21.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Thursday claimed that the end of the global recession was now achievable, as he unveiled an agreement from the G-20 summit that would pump an additional one trillion dollars into the global economy. Announcing the conclusions of the London summit, the prime minister also unveiled a surprise move on tax havens, saying that a list of countries that do not comply with anti-secrecy rules would be published today.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Amid a worldwide economic downturn, Indians have emerged as the most optimistic lot as people who think that their country will climb out of recession in the next 12 months, a survey said. 'Despite the global economic recession, about 51 percent Indians, the highest in the world, seem to be quite confident of the economy picking up in the near future,' said Sonia Pall, Executive Director in Consumer Research at The Nielsen Company, which conducted the survey.

July 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The world is beginning to pull out of its first recession since World War II, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. In an updated economic forecast, the IMF said the global economy was already stabilising, the financial crisis has eased and the recession will end in the second half of this year.

April 9th, 2009 LONDON - Elle Macpherson has downgraded her luxurious lifestyle due to the recession but refuses to give up her most expensive habit - collecting art. The Australian beauty has claimed that the recession has hit her like a 'love bite'.

January 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The global meltdown will not have any impact on rural development projects or budgetary allocations for the department concerned, the government said here Monday. 'We are expecting more budgetary allocation for our department in the coming fiscal.

August 19th, 2009 ALLEPPEY - With the arrival of tourists back in Kerala, the tourism industry hopes to recover from the setback suffered due to global economic recession. The Alleppey district houses some of the most popular backwaters in the state where tourists, especially from the west, come to enjoy boat rides amid lush green and serene surroundings.

March 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama took his economic prescriptions to a global and domestic audience Tuesday, calling for a broader and urgent global response to the world's worst economic crisis in a generation. Writing in 31 newspapers around the globe, Obama warned that it was up to world leaders holding an emergency summit in London next week to come up with a comprehensive solution to the global recession.