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Companies like LEA Associates, a Canadian power consulting firm, already has several projects in India. As far as Indian investments in Canada are concerned, a large number of Indian companies are discovering that it pays to invest in Canada. Early movers to Canada include some big software giants like Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and HCL Infosystems. Ranbaxy has expanded its operations in Canada in the area of biotechnology….

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Rampant deforestation is the nemesis of these primeval thickets of Venezuela and neighbouring Brazil; towards cattle pastures, infrastructure improvements and commercial agriculture (what’s with the growing love for soybeans?!). Then is the struggle for survival of one of the most ancient indigenous tribes existing in the Amazons – the Yanomamis – against their much fitter modernworld brethren. Victims of disease and genocide, the controversy-riddled plight of one of the most primitive races was brought to light in Patrick Tierney’s Darkness in El Dorado, and has proved to be quite an albatross around the neck of the current Hugo Chavez government. But hey, I was on vacation here; with the emerald of the forests on either side and the sapphire of the sky above for company, the ‘Heart of Darkness’ opened up before me to the page where Joseph Conrad had said (albeit of a different continent!), “Going up that river was like traveling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth, and the big trees were kings.”

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Vital Opportunities - IIPM Knowledge Centre

The Board has now decided to appoint ex-COO and Motorola President Mike Zafirovski as its president and CEO, effective Nov 15, 2005.“Bill is leaving a company uniquely positioned for the future that can capitalise on vital opportunities around the world,” states Zafirovski.

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India is seeing an increasing number of business travellers (IIPM Publication)

With more and more multinational companies setting base in India, India is seeing an increasing number of business travellers combining business with leisure. The MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions, Events) market globally is another critical area that needs catching up in India. According to a survey conducted by the Federation of Hotel and Restaurant Association, corporate travelers account for more that 50 percent occupancy in hotels, laying credence to the fact that the business traveller is contributing a major chunk of the foreign arrivals in India every year. As per estimates from The India Economy Review 2004-05, a conference traveller spends roughly four to eight times more than a leisure traveller. Major competitors like Thailand, Singapore, Dubai and Malaysia have already achieved critical mass in MICE segment. The India Economy Review 2004-05 recommends infrastructure development on a large scale and advocates a vibrant public-private partnership model......

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