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Jancarthier Voyages is a family owned and operated travel agency based in Paris, servicing the globe.

Founded in 1963 by Dan’s grandfather, the agency has evolved from a small neighborhood operation to a € 100M a year agency operating in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, The Indian Ocean, and Oceana. While Jancarthier focuses on business travel, they also offer world-class and one-of-a-kind vacation experiences.

Jancarthier Voyages has been able to grow its brand, gaining trust and new business along the way, precisely because of its deep connection in the industry as a family-owned business. After Dan’s Grandfather started the company in 1963, Dan’s father, Phillipe, joined when he came of age in 1982. Dan himself has been around the business ever since he was born; as early as the young age of 4, Dan would spend afternoons at his father’s office after school and accompany him as he delivered airline tickets to clients before the invention of email. Dan officially joined the company as soon as he graduated school at the age of 18. Despite the family connection and early exposure, Phillipe wanted Dan to get his start from the ground up. Beginning as a courier, Dan quickly evolved into a top salesperson, and now, at the age of 28, is a branch manager, taking care of top clients’ portfolios as well as collaborating on new and exciting projects for the company. Following his family’s path, Dan is a part of the third generation of this company, completely ingrained in the travel industry.

Due to this strong familial connection, personal touch, and robust expertise, Taieb and the rest of Jancarthier Voyages are able to differentiate themselves from the competitors. Jancarthier employees have deep, intimate relationships with 100% of their clientele — not just the breadwinner, but everyone from the oldest member of a family to their children. Further, the Jancarthier’s team pairs older, more experienced travel agents awash in industry relationships with younger, more tech-savvy recent graduates in order to make sure they are accounting for every travel and hospitality opportunity out there.  Of course, all of Jancarthier’s employees regularly go on tours and visit the locations and hotels they work with in order to ensure the quality of what they are selling as well as experience it themselves. If the employees, or any clients, have a negative experience with a certain hotel or airline or hospitality experience then the company may blacklist those suppliers in order to keep their customers happy regardless of the margins.

Jancarthier’s personal understanding of their clients, commitment to quality, tried-and-true relationships, as well as new age, internet-enabled tactics allows the agency to holistically understand and best facilitate a perfectly curated travel experience. To this point, Jancarthier works with all airlines, tour operators, as well as with large and small hotels all over the world in order to make sure they understand the market and therefore provide the most tailor-made experience and service to their customers, from the lonesome traveler to the family to large corporate clients.

Now, as COVID-19 is changing the travel landscape, Taieb is adapting as well. The young travel entrepreneur has plans to expand a point of sale to Dubai, which has actually seen an increase in their hospitality business since the pandemic. Further, Taieb is working with Upclaim, a new legal technology that supports travelers with airlines disputes and is creating a ‘Tour Operator’ position in order to consolidate the group’s hotel purchases.

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Developing an ecosystem requires excellent collaboration and partnerships.

According to 123swap, the collaboration with the particular project helps the ecosystem’s growth and facilitates crypto adoption.

The objective of the 123swap is to reintroduce the core concepts of cross-chain, to understand the latest breakthroughs, and to collaborate with the best and most reliable cross-chain approach.

The 123swap platform leverages smart contracts to automate and speed up the swap process. The platform utilizes its smart contracts to facilitate distributed finance management. Critical Solutions has an easy-to-use and straightforward interface, a non-volatile rate during transactions, no hidden fees, a wide range of assets, security, and cross-chain one-window platforms.

Main Goal of 123swap

Through cross-chain intelligent contracts, intelligent and autonomous financial management can be realized in one place. 123swap has invented a technology that will help you overcome competition and become the fastest and best swap platform in the world.

What is Avalanche?

Avalanche is a layer-one blockchain that is the foundation for decentralized apps and custom blockchain networks. It is one of Ethereum’s rivals and aims to defeat Ethereum as the most popular blockchain in smart contracts. We’re trying to do this by outputting up to 6,500 transactions per second while maintaining scalability.

Unique Architecture

The Avalanche network consists of three blockchains: X-Chain, C-Chain, and P-Chain. Each chain performs a specific function and is significantly different from the approach used by Bitcoin and Ethereum, where all nodes must verify all transactions. Avalanche’s blockchain utilizes various consensus technologies depending on the use case.

Avalanche has been working to establish its ecosystem with DApps and DeFi since deploying in 2020. Avalanche is integrated with multiple Ethereum-based projects such as SushiSwap and TrueUSD. In addition, the platform continues to attempt to improve interoperability between its ecosystem and Ethereum through the installation of bridges, etc.

Why is it unique?

Avalanche is trying to solve the trilemma of blockchain. The trilemma is that the blockchain is too large to achieve sufficient decentralization. As a result, high gas rates are becoming common in Ethereum.

• To solve this problem, Avalanche has created three interoperable blockchains.
• Exchange Chain (X-Chain) is used to generate and exchange native AVAX tokens and other assets. These tokens adhere to a set of established standards, like the Ethereum ERC-20 standard. It adopts the Avalanche consensus technology.
• Contract Chain (C-Chain) is a platform for smart contracts and decentralized applications. It has its avalanche virtual machine, comparable to Ethereum’s virtual machine, and can develop DApps for EVM. We also use the Snowman consensus process.
• Platform Chain (P-Chain) organizes network validators, monitors current subnets, and allows the creation of new subnets. A subnet is a collection of validators, similar to a Validator cartel. Each subnet can validate multiple blockchains simultaneously, but only one subnet can validate a single Blockchain. In addition, the Snowman consensus system is adopted.

Verdict

Cryptocurrencies that include Abbas are speculative, complex, and carry significant risks – highly volatile and susceptible to secondary activity. Performance is unpredictable, and AVAX’s past performance does not guarantee future performance.

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As world economies recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors all over the globe are more willing than ever to part with their cash.

When scouring countries for investment opportunities, they should look no further than India.

According to data published by NASDAQ this year, India is the world’s fifth fastest-growing economy and has already had a considerable bounce back from the pandemic. There are prime opportunities for investment that could deliver attractive returns across a huge range of sectors.

There are a number of reasons why investors should focus their capital on India. For one, in the 2021 financial year, the country received its highest ever inflow of foreign direct investment of over $81 billion. This was due to a backdrop of policy steps that have improved the ease of doing business in the country, attracting investment into projects focused on manufacturing capacity and new infrastructure developments.

The largest investors in India in the past year were Singapore, the USA, and Mauritius, but the rest of the West stands to gain a lot if they follow suit. India’s GDP is forecasted to grow by 11 per cent in the next financial year, the highest since their independence in 1947, and is estimated to become a $5 trillion economy by the same year.

This large, expanding size of the market makes India an attractive prospect for foreign investors, with easy access to other emerging markets such as Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Many of the world’s most prominent investors and venture capital funds have already succumbed to the allure of investing in India. Warburg Pincus and Prosus Ventures recently backed the Good Glamm Group in a $150 million funding round, making it the latest Indian startup to become a so-called ‘unicorn’ company, with a value of over $1 billion. Similarly, last month General Catalyst led a $160m investment round in Mumbai-based Dhani Services, founded by Sameer Gehlaut.

Given the current geopolitical climate and how western nations are reacting to China’s foreign policy decisions, many investors see India as a safer alternative. Tensions in the South China Sea are scaring away the big corporates, especially those based in the US, for fear friction between the two countries could affect their bottom line.

Many companies also made moves to prevent their supply chains being so reliant on China following the coronavirus pandemic, instead focusing on domestic production. By comparison, India has relatively good relations with most of the nations in the west, and many companies have decided to shift their manufacturing bases from China and into India.

The Indian government has recently taken the policy decision to encourage digital transformation across the country. This is another reason why it is becoming increasingly attractive for investors. For a long time, many companies have chosen to outsource their IT departments and call centres to India, but with digital technology expanding across the country, it will soon become more than just that.

We are seeing a huge tech boom across India, which is revolutionising industries such as finance, e-commerce, agriculture and medicine. This leads to increased investor confidence as the economy becomes more developed on the whole, and venture capitalists who have found success in these industries in other countries will view India as an even more attractive place to invest.

It is reforms like this that increase investor confidence. India’s government is keen to get other countries doing business here. The country regularly ranks in the top 10 improvers in the World Bank’s “Ease of Doing Business” rankings, which is in part due to the actions of the government.

India is undoubtedly an attractive place to invest, and it’s time more firms and individuals in the west recognised this. The growth of the country’s already significant economy can’t be downplayed, and the emergence of more and more unicorns by the year, as well as its geopolitical benefits compared with China, all make India an ideal place to shell out capital.

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Why you should invest in India

A Singapore-based crypto exchange has scored one of the biggest naming rights deals in sports history with the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

The multi-purpose, 20,000-seat venue will be renamed Crypto.com Arena after the trading platform on Christmas Day, according to a Tuesday’s press release.

Crypto.com bought the naming rights to the arena from multinational sports and live entertainment company AEG for 20 years, the Los Angeles Times wrote, citing sources familiar with the matter.

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The deal was reportedly worth $700 million, making it one of the biggest naming rights deals in sports history, beating the LA Clippers’ $500 million deal on the Intuit Dome, and SoFi Stadium’s deal, reportedly worth more than $600 million.

The new branding is set to be revealed on December 25, the date of the NBA’s annual Christmas game, when the Los Angeles Lakers will host the Brooklyn Nets.

All current Staples Center insignias will be removed and changed to the new name by June 2022.

Under the terms of the deal, Crypto.com also becomes an official partner of the NBA’s Lakers, and the NHL’s LA Kings.

Crypto.com is not a newcomer to the world of sports; it has signed a number of deals this year – with Formula One and the UFC, among others. 

The Staples Center, however, is a prized addition, having hosted 19 Grammy Awards ceremonies, countless major sporting events, concerts, and public events, including memorial ceremonies for Michael Jackson and Kobe Bryant. 

The arena has been in operation since 1999, bearing the name of Staples Inc., a major office supplies and retail company. 

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CHICAGO, IL – The ever-increasing crime and violence in Chicago continue to claim victims as a Christmas tragedy unfolded over the weekend, when a daughter who was helping her father hand up holiday decorations was instead forced to watch him beaten to death in a senseless attack.

The attack happened about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the 3500 block of West 58th Street, when Jose Tellez – an immigrant who had reportedly come to America to better provide for his family – was attacked by two unidentified individuals while hanging up Christmas lights with his daughter.

Chicago dad, Jose Tellez, is beaten to death outside of his home. He was hanging Christmas decorations.

Crime is soaring because it’s not being punished, and elected Democrats are still lying about it. https://t.co/2UnSDEwhtp

— Bart Marcois (@bmarcois) December 14, 2021

A neighbor, who preferred to remain anonymous, said that she heard Tellez’s daughter scream, rushed to the scene of the attack, where she discovered the victim lying on the ground, bleeding profusely from the head.

“My dad, my dad, he’s hurt,” the neighbor said. “I told [the daughter] to get a blanket to put on his head. There was a lot of blood.”

Tellez, who was married with three children, was rushed to Christ Medical Center, where he died at 10:32 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Chicago police have not yet released descriptions of the two assailants, stating only that they were identified as two males; a motive for the attack is currently unknown, but the victim was reportedly not robbed, and had been beaten with blunt objects.

The anonymous neighbor who responded to the attack stated that Tellez “was a good man who mostly kept to himself,” and that she “couldn’t imagine anyone wanting to hurt him.”

Another neighbor, Silverio Nodal, said that he had known Tellez for a decade and said that he was an avid gardener who worked as a landscaper, and was “a family man, a hard-working guy.”

“He came here to provide the best for his family, you know as all of us do, the American dream,” Nodal said. “But this is not the American dream.”

A GoFundMe page has been established to assist the Tellez family with funeral expenses; to date, it has raised over $46,000, far exceeding its original $10,000 goal.