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Tauranga Business Awards: Nominations now open for 2021 17 May, 2021 08:00 PM 4 minutes to read Heilala Vanilla won the supreme award at the Westpac Business Awards 2020. Photo / Salina Galvan Photography Heilala Vanilla won the supreme award at the Westpac Business Awards 2020. Photo / Salina Galvan Photography Nominations are now open for Tauranga s annual awards celebrating local businesses, which have returned for 2021 with a new name. The departure of Westpac as the long-standing principal sponsor has seen the event renamed the Tauranga Business Awards. Hosted by the Tauranga Chamber of Commerce, the awards were scheduled to be launched this morning via a virtual video event. ....
Airbnb s Brian Chesky: The trick is to be optimistic 16 May, 2021 07:30 AM 12 minutes to read Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, says he stayed calm even as bookings plummeted. Photo / Getty Images Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, says he stayed calm even as bookings plummeted. Photo / Getty Images Financial Times By: Dave Lee in San Francisco I think the psychology of the leader often becomes the psychology of the organisation, says Brian Chesky, reflecting on a year in which his company, Airbnb, was thrown into disarray by the global pandemic. There was no panic, the chief executive and co-founder of the accommodation-booking platform says, even as bookings plummeted by more than 70 per cent and thousands of hosts protested when forced to issue refunds. Others questioned whether the travel industry would ever recover. ....