A survey of 23,000 holidaymakers in 26 countries worldwide has named Costa Rica as the destination most would recommend for a holiday based on personal experience.

Behavioural economics has moved centre stage since the financial meltdown of 2007/8. It is the study of human judgement and decision-taking and how that influences behaviour.

Using the Landlords Panel survey Mark Long investigates how landlords source finance to fund their portfolios.

The average buy-to-let landlord earned twice the average UK annual wage through rental income alone, new figures from BVA BDRC suggest.

Online travel agencies (OTAs) initially provided huge opportunities to hotels to widen their distribution, sell distressed inventory and maintain occupancy levels.

Recent reports by such diverse organisations as Oxfam and the Resolution Foundation have drawn attention to economic and social differentiation emerging in Britain.

Demand for hotel rooms in Britain from British travellers increased by 2% year-on-year, to an estimated 108 million adult room nights, split almost 50:50 between business and leisure stays.

In many ways, there's never been a better time to be a buy-to-let landlord.

Apps are becoming an integrated part of our everyday life. Personally, I rely on apps for everything from reading the news, keeping in touch with friends and family and planning trips on public transport.

Many markets are driven by social influence – the way we feel, think and act is strongly influenced by what other people say and do.

In a more optimistic atmosphere, there are few signs of any increasing appetite for external finance among small and medium businesses.

That is, if relations between the White House and Capitol Hill about budgets don’t deteriorate and nothing gets worse in the Ukraine, South China Sea, the Arabian Gulf and so on. It was ever thus.