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We give out a great deal of personal information every day, and by using a Facebook account, you could be giving out more than you bargained for. When many of us log in, like pages, and write comments or status updates, targeted advertisements will appear on the right of screen offering everything from concert tickets to university degrees, depending on what it is you’re writing about. And when you’re logging on to web pages from the same browser, Facebook is accessing that too, making note of everywhere you visit and how much time you spend. So whilst this is great for Facebook’s many advertisers, does this mean social media is becoming Big Brother?

Facebook is a fast and easy to use networking tool, and can greatly increase the search engine optimisation of a brand or company figure. However, with this level of access to your personal information and your browser, users may not feel completely secure with Facebook and its associated apps. People who use these networks like to share and communicate, but the levels of sharing have increased from photos and comments to the sites you visit, and even the advertisements and apps you have removed from your sidebar. An additional security threat is that up until this week, the cookies your browser creates when accessing websites remain active in the Facebook server even after you’ve logged out, possibly containing credit card details or other sensitive personal information.

The type of access Facebook has to your personal information may leave a few questioning the integrity of the site, and wondering how many of their friends have made the move to Google+, the next innovative social networking site. Is this the case of another one bites dust?

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Europcar is continuing to raise the benchmark on environmental responsibility in the Australian car rental industry, by signing a new agreement with Greenfleet.

As one of Australia’s leading companies and one of the world’s largest vehicle rental companies, Europcar acutely recognises the importance of reducing its carbon emissions. 

Europcar has had a long-standing relationship with Greenfleet, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to helping the community reduce environmental impacts.  The new agreement promises that Europcar Australia will offset the carbon emissions of every company provided staff vehicle (based on mileage) until the end of 2016, adding to the existing offset programme targeted at customer rentals.

Europcar Australia launched its carbon emissions reduction program in December 2006. Globally recognised as the environmental leader in the car hire industry, Europcar enables customers to offset carbon emissions with every rental.

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A. Patrick Imbardelli, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pan Pacific Hotels Group has been awarded the Asia-Pacific Hotelier of the Year at the 2011 HM Awards for Hotel and Accommodation Excellence.

Hosted by Hotel Management Magazine (HM) and in its ninth year, HM Awards are the leading awards for the accommodation industry in Australia, New Zealand and South Pacific, recognising the finest people, properties and brands in the accommodation industry across Asia Pacific.

The ‘Asia-Pacific Hotelier of the Year’ Award – a first-ever at the HM Awards – was conferred on Patrick by a voting panel of industry professionals comprising acclaimed CEOs and Managing Directors across the Asia Pacific region.

“Patrick is one of the industry’s finest and it was great for him to win in the very first year that this award is given out,” said James Wilkinson, HM magazine’s Managing Editor. “What makes the win more notable is that it was peer-voted with a selected group of Hoteliers choosing who they believe is the best leader in the Asia-Pacific.”

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