2025 Travel Trends: ‘Friend-Finding’ Tours, Private Islands and More
Jump to: Credit…Miriam Martincic A recent Booking.com global survey of 31,000 travelers found that 71 percent of respondents “want to leave the places they visit better than when they arrived.” Eighty-three percent said that sustainable travel is important to them. Now, as travelers wake up to the social effects of tourism, travel businesses are responding […]
Floating status as management prerogative in certain cases
Dear PAO, I am currently working as a security guard under ABC Security Agency. From 2022 to 2024, I was assigned to SRB Mall. However, in August 2024, our security agency told us that SRB Mall had terminated the contract with our agency. Thereafter, ABC Security Agency notified us that we would be placed on […]
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Employer cannot be compelled to retain a grossly negligent worker
Dear PAO, One of our bus drivers has been very negligent. He had previous vehicular accidents that resulted in minor damages to other motorists and injuries to pedestrians. Lately, we were forced to settle with another car owner after our bus, driven by the same driver, collided with his car, resulting in major damage. Our […]
Yogyarkata, Indonesia Is Where Javanese Culture Begins
The long ride from the international airport to the city of Yogyakarta on the Indonesian island of Java at least has the virtue of easing a jet-lagged traveler through a liminal zone of rice-paddy plains and jungle hills. Then the buzzy metropolis closes round, and everything is all business and hot tropical urban disarray. Streets […]
Vacancy in the office of the punong barangay
Dear PAO, Our hardworking barangay chairperson is contemplating stepping down from his position. He has been serving our barangay ever since he was a tanod when he was still in his 20s. Now a senior citizen, he said that while he feels fulfilled, he is already tired and will definitely resign if the elections will […]
How A.I. Tools Helped the Travel Team Study Its ‘Places to Go’ Lists
We used several A.I. search engines, including Gemini, a large language model that can handle files of up to 750,000 words, and Semantra, an open-source “semantic search engine” that Mr. Freedman developed. Instead of searching for specific terms — “sustainability,” say, or “climate change” — it searches for concepts or themes. “It’s a new paradigm […]
Money muling is a prohibited act
Dear PAO, My eldest sibling, who is not very familiar with online transactions, was allegedly enticed to register an account in GCash to be bought/leased by another person. According to him, the offer is quite lucrative. As such, he told the person that he would think about the matter and would consult his relatives, who […]
What to Know About Plane Maintenance After the South Korean Crash
The cause of the fatal plane crash in South Korea last month is still to be determined, but it thrust into the spotlight a subject little understood by the general public: how airplanes are maintained. Jeju Air, the airline that operated the flight in which 179 people died, said that checks before the flight had […]
Prohibition of vaping in gas stations
Dear PAO, Last week, I needed to refuel my car, and I noticed a man vaping within the gas station premises. I know about the prohibition on smoking in gas stations, but is there also a prohibition on vaping? Beatriz Dear Beatriz, The State, in its goal to protect public health, has institutionalized strategies to […]