Brian Povinelli, SVP and Global Brand Leader at Westin Hotels and Resorts, discusses the company's initiatives to appeal to business travelers who want to keep up their fitness regimes while traveling.
The company recently partnered with Peloton, where travelers can ride bikes while visiting the hotel. They also equipped their hotel gyms with TRX machines and launched RunWESTIN, which finds local 3- to 5-mile trails around hotels that visitors can experience.
Povinelli discusses food offered at the hotels and overall ways the company taps into the $3.7 trillion dollar wellness movement.
Wall Street is shaky Thursday as investors consider both the upsides and downsides of the latest signals that the U.S. economy remains in much better shape than feared.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
The number of different electronic cigarette devices sold in the U.S. has nearly tripled to over 9,000 since 2020, driven almost entirely by a wave of unauthorized disposable vapes from China, according to tightly controlled sales data obtained by The Associated Press.
In Wednesday's business headlines, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is due in court to defend the company's takeover of Activision Blizzard and United Airlines is under fire over its recent cancellations with CEO Scott Kirby blaming the FAA for the disruptions. Meanwhile, a judge approved Overstock's purchase of Bed Bath & Beyond assets.
