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Data Reveals Top Five Most Visited and Searched For Destinations, Average Duration of Stay, Travel Party Size and More SAN FRANCISCO, April 17,( )2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sojern, the world's leading data-driven traveler engagement platform, today released the top U.S. consumer travel trends from the first quarter of the year, including most visited destinations, most desired/searched for destinations, average duration of stay, average size of travel party and more. The trends are based...

Constraining choice isn’t necessarily a good thing when it comes to managers’ problem-solving, according to a new Canadian study. Managers tend to pick higher-risk options when forced to choose between competing alternatives to complex situations, according to researchers from the University of Guelph and University of Waterloo whose study was published recently in the Journal of Business Ethics. But when they’re not forced to choose, managers tend to reflect more and solve...

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NEW YORK, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning with Adam in the Garden of Eden and continuing down through the annals of history, poor decision-making has disastrously impacted the personal futures of even those thought to be the smartest. Joe Paterno, Lance Armstrong, and General Petraeus are some of the latest notables to be undone by dumb decisions. They're not likely to be the last. Yet wise decision-making is a simple skill everyone can learn. For most of us, it is the...

The consumer advocacy group, Choice, has called for reforms to energy networks to help reduce electricity costs. The head of electricity price comparison service, Electricity Wizard, is encouraged by this addition to his call for reform, calling it ‘long overdue’. Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) October 02, 2012 As the latest electricity supply bills begin to arrive, the first since the introduction of the controversial Carbon Tax in July 2012, Electricity Wizard CEO, Alan Belkin, has...

SYDNEY, July 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NetSuite Inc. (NYSE: N), the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP software suites, today announced that CHOICE, Australia's leading independent consumer body, has implemented NetSuite for its core ERP functions of finance and CRM, to better support its transformation into a digital publishing business. NetSuite replaced multiple on-premise solutions that CHOICE had deployed for the past 10 years. To view the multimedia...

In a study with implications for businesspeople in a global economy, researchers at the University of Chicago have found that people make more rational decisions when they think through a problem in a non-native tongue. People are more likely to take favorable risks if they think in a foreign language, the new study showed. "We know from previous research that because people are naturally loss-averse, they often forgo attractive opportunities," said UChicago psychologist Boaz Keysar, a...

Let's say you've got to book a flight, choose a hotel, and rent a car. Does it matter which thing you shop for first? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research finds that the order of choices does affect consumers' decisions. "Consumers often shop for multiple products in a single trip. This research looks at whether the order in which consumers shop for the different products influences how they search for each individual product," write authors Jonathan Levav (Stanford University),...

To help consumers choose the best credit cards among the hundreds available in the US, DailyMarkets.com has come up with a list of winners for its Best Credit Cards 2012 guide. New York, NY (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 DailyMarkets.com, a personal finance website based in New York that helps people save smarter and invest smarter has just announced its choice of the Best Credit Cards 2012. To ensure the best credit card choice for US consumers, staff writers and editors of DailyMarkets.com...

You're in search of a new coffee maker, and the simple quest becomes, well, an ordeal. After doing copious amounts of research and reading dozens of consumer reviews, you finally make a purchase, only to wonder: "Was this the right choice? Could I do better? What is the return policy?" Reality check: Is this you? If so, new research from Florida State University may shed some light on your inability to make a decision that you'll be happy with. Joyce Ehrlinger, an assistant professor...