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Wikipedia Edits Have Massive Impact on Tourism, Say EconomistsPosted by msmash on Friday September 18, 2020 @01:30PM from the closer-look dept.Forget glossy travel brochures and whizzy online sites; one of the most cost-effective ways tourism chiefs can drive business to their towns or cities is by updating their Wikipedia page. From a report:CitarAn experiment by economists at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy, and ZEW in Mannheim, Germany, found that a few simple edits to a Wikipedia page could lead to an extra $130,000 a year in tourism revenue for a small city, underscoring the power of the free online encyclopaedia. The researchers randomly selected cities across Spain to receive targeted improvements to their Wikipedia pages, adding a few paragraphs of information on their history and local attractions, as well as high-quality photos of the local area.It didn't take an expert, either. Most of the content added was simply translated over from the Spanish Wikipedia into either French, German, Italian or Dutch. Doing so had an immediate and remarkable effect: adding just two paragraphs of text and a single photo to the article increased the number of nights spent in the city by about 9% during the tourist season. In some instances, the increase was even larger. For cities with barely anything on their Wikipedia pages, a minor edit could raise visits by a third.
An experiment by economists at the Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy, and ZEW in Mannheim, Germany, found that a few simple edits to a Wikipedia page could lead to an extra $130,000 a year in tourism revenue for a small city, underscoring the power of the free online encyclopaedia. The researchers randomly selected cities across Spain to receive targeted improvements to their Wikipedia pages, adding a few paragraphs of information on their history and local attractions, as well as high-quality photos of the local area.It didn't take an expert, either. Most of the content added was simply translated over from the Spanish Wikipedia into either French, German, Italian or Dutch. Doing so had an immediate and remarkable effect: adding just two paragraphs of text and a single photo to the article increased the number of nights spent in the city by about 9% during the tourist season. In some instances, the increase was even larger. For cities with barely anything on their Wikipedia pages, a minor edit could raise visits by a third.
Why China’s recovery is not what it seems, Michael Pettis(...)China’s “recovery”, in other words, is largely an exacerbation of the problems that have long been recognised by Beijing. It is a supply-side recovery in an economy that urgently needs more domestic demand but that has found it politically very hard to manage the wealth transfers that it requires.This recovery isn’t sustainable without a substantial transformation of the economy, and unless Beijing moves quickly to redistribute domestic income, it will require either slower growth abroad or an eventual reversal of domestic growth once Chinese debt can no longer rise fast enough to hide the domestic demand problem.
EU to discuss relations with Russia at its summit in October, says sourceAccording to the diplomat, relations with Russia within the context of the situation around the alleged poisoning of Russian blogger Alexey Navalny will be also discussed at a session of the Council of the European Union on MondayAt its scheduled summit in mid-October, the European Union will hold a major discussion on relations with Russia, a high-ranking EU representative told journalists on Friday ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers on September 21."We will have an in-depth discussion on relations with Russia in October," the source said, adding that the EU "does not understand Russia’s behavior".According to the diplomat, relations with Russia within the context of the situation around the alleged poisoning of Russian blogger Alexey Navalny will be also discussed at a session of the Council of the European Union on Monday. "The ministers will get information from the head of the German Foreign Office," the source added.
Cita de: Rafa_ en Septiembre 14, 2020, 22:12:37 pmCita de: Vipamo en Septiembre 13, 2020, 08:50:12 amTambién dices, y cito textualmente: ” El proyecto de Nordstream está bien porque el gas va a ser muy necesario como energía de transición en los próximos 10 años o así”Tu has estado alguna vez en invierno en un país del norte de Europa, p.ej. Alemania?Como te imaginas que se calientan las casas de la gente, edificios, fábricas y un largo etc.? Con qué energías renovables crees que se podría calentar todo esto durante el invierno? Con fotovoltaicas, molinos eólicos, baterías Tesla?En Suecia, no conocida precisamente por su calor, y con uno de los consumos de energía per cápita más altos del mundo, es con hidroeléctrica, nuclear, una buena parte renovables y a día de hoy casi no se usan fósiles.muy buen ejemplo, un pais enorme rico en materias, con muy poca poblacion, que financia todo lo renovable a base de vender petroleo
Cita de: Vipamo en Septiembre 13, 2020, 08:50:12 amTambién dices, y cito textualmente: ” El proyecto de Nordstream está bien porque el gas va a ser muy necesario como energía de transición en los próximos 10 años o así”Tu has estado alguna vez en invierno en un país del norte de Europa, p.ej. Alemania?Como te imaginas que se calientan las casas de la gente, edificios, fábricas y un largo etc.? Con qué energías renovables crees que se podría calentar todo esto durante el invierno? Con fotovoltaicas, molinos eólicos, baterías Tesla?En Suecia, no conocida precisamente por su calor, y con uno de los consumos de energía per cápita más altos del mundo, es con hidroeléctrica, nuclear, una buena parte renovables y a día de hoy casi no se usan fósiles.
También dices, y cito textualmente: ” El proyecto de Nordstream está bien porque el gas va a ser muy necesario como energía de transición en los próximos 10 años o así”Tu has estado alguna vez en invierno en un país del norte de Europa, p.ej. Alemania?Como te imaginas que se calientan las casas de la gente, edificios, fábricas y un largo etc.? Con qué energías renovables crees que se podría calentar todo esto durante el invierno? Con fotovoltaicas, molinos eólicos, baterías Tesla?
Cita de: Rafa_ en Septiembre 14, 2020, 22:12:37 pmCita de: Vipamo en Septiembre 13, 2020, 08:50:12 amTambién dices, y cito textualmente: ” El proyecto de Nordstream está bien porque el gas va a ser muy necesario como energía de transición en los próximos 10 años o así”Tu has estado alguna vez en invierno en un país del norte de Europa, p.ej. Alemania?Como te imaginas que se calientan las casas de la gente, edificios, fábricas y un largo etc.? Con qué energías renovables crees que se podría calentar todo esto durante el invierno? Con fotovoltaicas, molinos eólicos, baterías Tesla?En Suecia, no conocida precisamente por su calor, y con uno de los consumos de energía per cápita más altos del mundo, es con hidroeléctrica, nuclear, una buena parte renovables y a día de hoy casi no se usan fósiles.¿Cuantos habitantes tiene Suecia y cuantos Alemania?
Les traigo una columna de opinión que he encontrado de rebote:....El estilo me recuerda a las conversaciones que nos traslada el maestro Disfruten!
Cita de: kerberos en Septiembre 19, 2020, 15:14:22 pmLes traigo una columna de opinión que he encontrado de rebote:....El estilo me recuerda a las conversaciones que nos traslada el maestro Disfruten!Esto es poesía moderna. Cristina Fallarás vive de eso. De tocar la fibra emotiva de sus lectores o espectadores con poemas románticos modernos en los que la bruja es el banco y el malvado es el gobierno, la princesa son los hipotecados y el héroe supongo que será paradógicamente un gobierno alter-ego del anterior. Cuanto más fantástico mejor. Como lo buenos cuentos de hadas.Un relato sencillo de fácil digestión mental. Twitter tiene un largo hilo convencidos internautas destacando lo buena y sencilla que es la idea de Cristina. Una muestra más de lo fácil que es pastorear al ciudadano estándar hacia la elección política que se desee. Cristina no es ni siguiera buena en eso y le sale fácil
Hay dos tipos de rentas del Trabajo & Empresa:— ahorradas (es decir, no consumidas)—traídas del futuro mediante endeudamientoLa vivienda, fábrica de pobreza: somos pobres porque hemos encarecido la vivienda para creernos ricos.
La editorial de El Pais:https://elpais.com/opinion/2020-09-17/sin-aliento.htmlCitarSin alientoLa recuperación económica será más lenta y exigirá prorrogar el gasto social
Sin alientoLa recuperación económica será más lenta y exigirá prorrogar el gasto social
Canada drops free trade talks with China: The Globe and MailA trade agreement between Canada and China is no longer worth pursuing, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in an interview to The Globe and Mail, abandoning free trade talks that were initiated four years ago.“I don’t see the conditions being present now for these discussions to continue at this time,” Champagne added.Champagne's comment shelved the idea of a free trade deal with world's second-largest economy for which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was under pressure from domestic critics who charged he was too willing to make concessions in return for more trade with China.The Trudeau government has little appetite to get back to the convivial atmosphere it helped create four years ago, the report said adding that Champagne repeatedly criticized China for “assertive, coercive diplomacy.”Champagne also added that their first priority is to bring Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were charged in China in June with espionage, back home.
Landlords slash rents by up to 20% as tenants quit city centres in pandemic‘Race to suburbia’ and a lack of foreign students see rental demand plummet in wake of Covid-19Private rents in some parts of London have tumbled by up to 20% as tenants quit the capital, the number of international students plummets and companies put relocation plans on hold.
US shipping regulator issues warning after container rates hit record highs(...) The canceled sailings earlier this year created a major backlog in cargoes and a shortage of available carrying capacity, particularly for trade lanes from China to the US. This coincided with a shift in US consumer spending away from services and toward goods, a large amount of which are manufactured in Asia.Platts Container Rate 13 — North Asia to West Coast North America — increased to $3,800/FEU on Sept. 15, the highest level since the assessment was launched in 2017. Platts Container Rate 5 — North Asia to East Coast North America — also climbed to a new record of $4,350/FEU in the week to Sept. 17.According to media reports, China carriers on Sept. 11 to discuss measures to regulate the sharp rise in trans-Pacific rates, advising them to discontinue any further blank sailings.Pressure from government regulators could also discourage shipowners from implementing many of the further general rate increases (GRIs) announced for Oct. 1, a US-based logistics specialist said.“We’ve maybe seen the top of the market, and the tipping point,” the specialist said. “Rates will level but not tank.”The Port of Los Angeles saw all-time high container volumes in August at 961,833 twenty-foot equivalent units, or TEUs, up by 12% from the same month last year, the port announced on Sept. 15. Loaded imports were up by 18% on a year-on-year basis, while loaded exports were down by 10% over the same period.