Laura Goh

Nov 5, 2024 | nationalworld.com | Laura GohContributor |Laura Goh

Türkiye announces year on year growth of 17% from same period last year. In the first nine months of 2024, Türkiye welcomed 3.7 million visitors from the United Kingdom, a 17% increase from 2023. In the first half of the year, nearly 1.8 million UK travellers arrived, reflecting Türkiye’s continued popularity as a top destination for British tourists seeking its unique mix of vibrant cities, historical sites, and scenic Mediterranean coastline.

Sep 30, 2024 | theconversation.com | Tom Baker |Alistair Sisson |Laura Goh |Pauline McGuirk |Sophia Maalsen

Since the end of his three-term New York City mayoralty in 2013, Michael Bloomberg hasn’t shied away from public attention. Presidential ambitions and global climate policy advocacy have kept him busy. But what is shaping up to be one of the most ambitious projects of the 82-year-old billionaire’s public life is not happening on the highly visible stages of national and international politics. It is unfolding in the stereotypically humdrum halls of city government.

Dec 6, 2023 | theconversation.com | Pauline McGuirk |Laura Goh |Robyn Dowling |Sophia Maalsen |Tom Baker

Heavyweight international players from the OECD to Bloomberg Philanthropies and the United Nations have in recent years prescribed “innovation” as a solution for the many challenges city governments face. Innovation is a notoriously slippery term. For city government it generally involves deliberately questioning how things are done, leading to new and hopefully better ways of working.