The latest edition of Hotels.com® Hotel Price Index™ (HPI®) indicates that North America saw the second fastest rise in average hotel prices in the first half of 2012, with a growth of 5 percent, putting the Index at 109. The good news for travelers is that prices stayed 10 Index points behind their peak in 2007 and were still cheaper than in 2006.
The HPI tracks real prices paid per room by Hotels.com customers at approximately 140,000 properties within the Hotels.com network in major destinations around the world. This edition of the report, which compares the first six months of 2012 with the same period in 2011, shows an upward trend in hotel prices across all global regions, resulting in an average global increase of 4 percent. This is the first time in five years that Hotels.com has seen an increase across the globe.
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Ganador del GRAMMY® Latino, Luis Fonsi y la actriz ganadora de premios Emmy® y Golden Globe, Sofia Vergara, se unen a personalidades y artistas importantes para apoyar la campaña Thanks and Giving de St. Jude. La campaña, ahora en su noveno año, pide a los consumidores que agradezcan la salud de sus niños y ayuden a aquellos que no la tienen apoyando la misión de St. Jude.
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Golden Globe and Emmy nominated actress Elizabeth Perkins, who is living with type 1 diabetes, is partnering with Sanofi US on the Diabetes Co-Stars awareness campaign to produce a new documentary that will feature people living with diabetes and those who support them. Beginning today through December 16, 2012, people can submit their stories to the nationwide casting call at www.DiabetesCoStars.com.
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The most loved viral holiday website in history, ElfYourself.com® is back and is coming to life on new social and mobile platforms. OfficeMax® Incorporated (NYSE: OMX), a leader in office and facility supplies, technology and services, has launched its popular free holiday eGreeting site with a new ElfYourself Live experience that allows users to “elf” themselves while chatting with friends, family and people across the globe during live online broadcasts on YouNow.com.
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Rumbadoodle is the title track of the GRAMMY-nominated full length studio album of Arun Shenoy, exploring a bold new perspective of the gypsy rumba flamenco, combining elements of the traditional art form with a myriad of popular music forms. Recorded almost entirely live across the Globe, this record is an explorative journey, doodling across genre boundaries as we know it today, creating a unique and true masterpiece along the way. http://www.arunshenoy.com
Coast 2 Coast Mixtape Vol. 224 Hosted by Kendrick Lamar can unquestionably be one of the most smoking mixtape collections to end 2012 accumulating the revamped year with a blast. Matthew Schultz is blasting on the music scene & is prepared to make is stamp in the industry. Matthew Schultz is stacked up on Reverbnation as #1 in the USA as Singer/Songwriter and #2 in the globe on the Reverbnation Global Charts.
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The AMWAY ONE BY ONE® Campaign for Children is marking its 10th anniversary with a remarkable accomplishment – helping 10 million children live better lives.
Amway has been committed to providing people around the globe with hope and opportunity for more than five decades. In 2003, Amway chose to focus its charitable efforts on the single global social cause of helping children live better lives by harnessing the power of interpersonal and business relationships made possible by Amway distributors and employees.
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In his fifth annual letter, Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, highlights how setting clear goals and accurate measurement are key to improving the lives of poor people around the globe.
The letter describes remarkable progress from schools in the United States to health care in Ethiopia and makes the case that continued investments in these efforts have made a measurable difference for millions of the world’s poorest people. A core reason was the world’s commitment to setting clear goals and identifying the right measures to drive progress towards those goals.
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Under the leadership of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD), the primary organization in the U.S. representing people with rare diseases, millions of Americans will gather tomorrow to observe the 5th annual Rare Disease Day. This international observance unites people around the globe to focus attention on the estimated 300 to 350 million patients worldwide afflicted with rare diseases and to recognize that their needs are a global public health concern. In the U.S., a rare disease is one that affects fewer than 200,000 Americans.
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