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WEYMOUTH — Joseph Tallon knew Daniel Richards for only a few hours in 1972, but those were the last hours of Richards' life in the waning days of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Tallon was the pilot of an Army reconnaissance OV-1 Mohawk and Richards was his observer. The mission would be Tallon's 66th and the last for both. They were shot down when they were barely off the runway. Richards was killed, Tallon was badly injured from ejecting from a plane that was too low. Four decades after the war, Tallon still had an obligation to fulfill, to make sure that Richards received t...

Decades after the Vietnam, War, Joseph Tallon sought to right a wrong and obtain a Purple Heart for a fallen comrade

| From left, City Sightseeing Worldwide CEO Enrique Ybarra, Spain secretary of state for tourism Fernando Valdes Verelst, Palace Resorts executive vice president Gibran Chapur, Barcelona Tourism director general Marian Muro, Global Rescue CEO Daniel Richards and Travel Weekly editor in chief Arnie Weissmann. Photo Credit: Couretsy of WTTC CANCUN -- The opening session of the World Travel and Tourism Council's (WTTC) first post-pandemic global summit featured a video of children from around the world talking about how much they missed sharing their cultures with visitors. It ended with a young...

The Path of Business-Travel Recovery: Still Unsteady Even as travel executives gather to consider the steps to recovery for the sector, pandemic considerations force another high-level industry event to be postponed. More than 600 travel-industry executives from around the world came together in Cancun, Mexico, this week for the World Travel & Tourism Council Global Summit—which last took place in 2019—to discuss “the road to recovery for travel.” The primary message of the event was that travel can resume safely with more international coordination and effort, particularly a...

World’s Best Investment Banks 2021: Sector Winners Advertisement April 05, 2021 Last year, in the shadow of Covid-19, global investment banking was charged with helping companies persevere through a period of extraordinarily slow economic growth, lockdowns and closed borders. Even so, net revenue for investment banking increased about 20% to $93.2 billion in 2020, from $78 billion in 2019, according to Dealogic. Driving this growth were industries that found a silver lining in the disruption and social distancing, including online media/entertainment, e-commerce, financial services, health ...