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.
Even as the number of instances of child labor labor violations surged in recent years, lawmakers in some states have worked to ease the use of minors in often dangerous working conditions.
MTV, a division of Paramount, is planning to shut down its news division and lay off 25 percent of its workforce. The company cited "broader economic headwinds" as the reason for the shuttering. The decision comes as Paramount makes cuts to better compete with rival entertainment giants.
Consumer prices in the United States rose again in April, and measures of underlying inflation stayed high, suggesting that rising costs could persist for months to come.
